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World Cheese Winners at the Guild of Fine Food

What a pleasure it was to spend an evening recently with the Guild of Fine Food at their London office and event space near to Borough Market tasting a score of truly amazing cheeses, and having the opportunity to discuss them with their enthusiastic makers.  The World Cheese Awards This event was a follow-up to […]

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Raising a glass to Romanian whisky: Carpathian Single Malt

With so many fascinating places to explore and things to discover Romania has much to offer. Whilst there make sure you stay long enough to enjoy its excellent wines – and also its silky smooth, rich and delicious whisky – Carpathian Single Malt. Romania lies in the south east of Europe with Bulgaria, Hungary, Ukraine, […]

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Guild of Fine Food – Great Taste Golden Forks 2022 Awards

We were delighted to be invited to the recent 2022 Golden Forks award ceremony – the culmination of the Guild of Fine Food’s annual Great Taste competition, said to be the world’s largest and most trusted food and drink accreditation scheme. The Food ‘Oscars’ The Golden Forks are sometimes called the ‘Oscars’ of the food […]

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Top 100 Wines of Sud de France 2022

It was with great pleasure that we accepted an invitation to learn more about the Sud de France Top 100 Wines for 2022. For South of France, read Occitanie, ie. wines from the beautiful regions of Languedoc, Roussillon, parts of the Rhône Valley and South-West France. The winning hundred had been selected from amongst 403 […]

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A Rose by any other name: Rock Rose Gin

Congratulations Claire and Martin Murray and all your colleagues at the Dunnet Bay Distillery – your Rock Rose Gin is delicious – full of character, slightly edgy yet with an incredible rounded out smoothness.  Take the road to Dunnet Bay Take the Caithness A836 road from John o’ Groat in the direction of Thurso. The […]

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Byron Burger – Easy Cheesy Please

Last week a friend and I met up for lunch at the Old Brompton Road branch of Byron, the American-inspired chain diner and home of the “poshburger”, (once famously patronised by George Osborne). These days it has twenty-one branches; this one’s handy for South Kensington tube, and also of course for the V&A, Science Museum […]