by Juel Mahoney
Ask me about sherry and I will say I love it. Like most people in the wine trade, I’ve been banging the drum for sherry for years. Only recently has it gained prominence on certain wine lists, mostly because of the rise in the number of tapas bars in London. Often it is hidden on the wine list …
by Juel Mahoney
There are people whose job all day is to predict trends (I’m just being glared at by the Market Insights guy as I type this…). So a surprise hit like the Pepik Sekt NV must make the trend-spotters wish to have focus groups with angels.
If you had told me before the Annual Tasting that a bottle-fermented …
Thanks to everybody who came to our Annual Tasting 2013 – A Matter of Taste. There are a few tired people in the office today but we’ve had a brilliant time scrolling through all your fantastic tweets and photos.
Our Twitter feed was buzzing yesterday – the hashtag #bibat13 clocked up nearly 450 tweets – and we had an overwhelming response to our …
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You know your Wine and Spirits. An expert in tasting and tactical spitting.
Faced with over 900 wines and spirits. With over 200 new wines, many never seen before in the UK before.
The mission? If you choose to accept it…
To locate the best wines on one day at A Matter of Taste.
Now …
By Will Lowe
Excitement is mounting in anticipation of the Bibendum’s Annual Tasting, this year themed “A Matter of Taste”.
One of the seminars involves what at first sight seems an unlikely pairing: a gin distillery and a perfumer. The Cambridge Distillery and Penhaligon’s are coming together to explain how their two worlds overlap more than you might think.
Both gin and …
by Juel Mahoney
According to the Mayan calendar, the universe is set to be wiped out on 21st December, 2012. If this thought is not scary enough, Crystal Head held a seminar to explain the Mayan Apocalypse in a crypt over 1000 years old – dark and cold with skulls lit up by candles.
Thankfully, the Spirits team were there …
How to understand media and digital innovation in the wine industry? At the EWBC Digital Wine Communications Conference held this year in Izmir (Turkey), it was by going back to The Source.
by Juel Mahoney
This was the fifth European Wine Blogger’s Conference, held in Izmir in Turkey, and for the first time the focus was not on the blogger as …
by Juel Mahoney
The clash of cocktail cultures in London is making it a very vibrant scene right now. It is possible to divide your night up between the historical hotels for the classics or hit the experimental and cutting-edge bars for the incredible experimentation and creativity going on. In between these two extremes, there’s a lot of fun along the way with small, focused …
In complete contrast to the large Annual Tasting at the beginning of the year, the Artisan tasting was an intimate and low-key event at The Gallery in Soho for our smaller producers who, without a bit of a push into the spotlight, may not get as much attention.
The tasting was a selection of our wine buyers’ favourite wines, most of them one-man bands, …
by Ben Austin, Head Sommelier Hotel du Vin Bristol
“A million miles from London”
It’s tough living in Bristol. It seems we are perched on the edge of the world, a million miles away from the UK’s wine hub of London. Unfortunately, large supplier tastings are few and far between here. So, when Bibendum brought their …
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