Monthly Archive: December, 2013

Sparkling Wine for New Year’s Eve – SO Prosecco

Let’s face it – a lot of Prosecco is bland and uninteresting. Its image has suffered in recent years with the market flooded with drab swill, with little to whet the appetite of… Continue reading

Cono Sur Wine Tasting

A Chilean wine tasting? No your eyes do not deceive you, nor have I abandoned Italy in favour of the land that Phylloxera forgot to visit on its holidays. I tossed and turned… Continue reading

Dublin Flamenco Festival 2013 – Flamenco & Sherry by Tío Pepe

As sherry week on The Vine Inspiration draws to a close, it’s fitting that we finish with a party, and the party in question was one of the opening events of the 2013… Continue reading

A Visit to Drakes Tabanco

After such an intense day of palomino palate punishment at The Great Sherry Tasting (not a bad thing at all I might add, as I’m sure you gathered from my recent posts!), I… Continue reading

The Great Sherry Tasting 2013 – Palo Cortado and Oloroso

It’s day three of sherry week on The Vine Inspiration. Yesterday, I wrote about some of the most enjoyable aged fino and amontillado I tasted at The Great Sherry Tasting held in London… Continue reading

The Great Sherry Tasting 2013 – Aged Fino and Amontillado

It’s day two of sherry week on The Vine Inspiration and we’re on to the good stuff. October 2013 saw the second incarnation of the, now hopefully annual, Great Sherry Tasting. The event… Continue reading

Dry Sherry – An Introduction

This week is sherry week on The Vine Inspiration! Isn’t every week ‘sherry week’ I hear you ask? Well yes, but this week is particularly sherry filled, as I’m finally getting around to… Continue reading