Bob's Blog: Give it Air
OPINION: “Have a look at this” said a good friend as he passed me a cutout from The Times with the heading “The wine gadget sommeliers say can make your £10 bottle taste better”.
OPINION: Cooking, eating, and drinking help take the sting out of lockdown.
I've turned the clocks forward an hour to change our drinking curfew and have pre-recorded our favourite cooking shows. Cooking shows stimulate the appetite and add extra pleasure to meal preparation. In an ideal world we would watch a demonstration, then prepare and eat the same meal immediately afterwards. Bliss! I have a small niggle when the celebrity chefs cook with wine. They tell us to only use wine that we would be happy to drink - preferable they wine we plan to drink with the meal. That makes sense when you are adding a splash to the dish before serving, but makes no sense to me when you need half a bottle of something for slow-cooked stews and casseroles.
If you can't taste the wine in the finished dish, why would you want to sacrifice an expensive and tasty wine?
OPINION: Over the past 25 years growing wine, Jonathan Hamlet has seen "a massive evolution" in the care taken in…
OPINION: Members will be aware of the significant challenges facing vineyards and wineries (highlighted in our 2024 Annual Report).
Fifteen premium Marlborough wineries have found a home away from home in the region, with a shared cellar door in…
Huntress, Novum, and The Marlborist embody an evolution of small producers in New Zealand.
Marlborough-based agritech company Smart Machines has reached a significant milestone in its mission to revolutionise vineyard management.