What’s a kid’s toy from the movie Ace Ventura 2 got to do with a bold bottle from the Barossa Valley? My shiraz wine review… Everyone loves a slinky, you gotta get a slinky, GO slinky GO! So sang Ace Ventura as his beloved slinky flip-flopped its way down an enormous Tibetan staircase, only to…

What’s Tony Blair’s trip to the barbers got to do with a wine from Puglia? A white negroamaro wine review… This week, I’ve bowed to overwhelming (possibly imaginary) demand and, with a warm bank holiday in store, bought a bottle of white to refresh and cleanse my soul. 🍇 Grape: Negroamaro (usually for reds) 🇮🇹…

It could well be the first time you’ve seen pollinated flip-flop as a taste note. Or is it? My Sangiovese ‘appassimento’ wine review, in case you wanna know more… Good things come to those who wait, right? I mean, Guinness have hung their hat on that for donkeys. And usually, I’d agree. Appassimento is a…

What’s a glorious bottle of Italian red got to do with prawn cocktail Pringle food comas and lamb koftas? My Chianti wine review, probably of many to come because I love it too much… If I wanted to microchip the world, sack Covid jabs, I’d be sneaking them in Pringles. What is it that’s so…

What does the letter you get when you leave (or get sacked if you’re an uncontrollable rebel) have to do with wine? Read my Hawke’s Bay pinot noir wine review to find out. On Joe Fattorini‘s The Wine Show, a French winemaker told the presenters a simple truth about wine when he said, “Le perpoose…

What do Opal Fruits and a man with cramp in his wrists have to do with a bottle of red wine from Southern France? A Rasteau wine review, if you have 2 minutes… It’s 2006 and a hot summer’s day in the south of France. 18-year-old me, my mum and dad and family friends were…

What does this jammy, spicy bottle of Morgon have to do with a Liverpudlian singer and 90s TV show host? A Beaujolais wine review for you… Cilla Black is a scouse legend. When I was growing up in the mid 90s, you just watched Blind Date after Gladiators and Baywatch, then Family Fortunes, and that…

What does this stubby little bottle from Puglia have to do with a sign on my old PE teacher’s door? My Susumaniello wine review, for your perusal… Mr Snellgrove was one of those sports teachers that endeared himself to you if you loved rugby. And did not if you did not. He wore shorts in…

It was a crispy Sunday, stodge was required and I wanted a KFC I’d heard they’d just started doing Boneless Banquets: Boneless chicken strips, popcorn chicken, a side of choice (always gravy) and chips. Oh aye, I thought, sounds like a birra me that. So in I went, it I bought and down I sat,…

What does this gorgeous bottle from Puglia have to do with a famous TV ad from the 80s about milk? My Primitivo wine review reveals all! I used to live in Accrington, the town made famous by two young scousers, milk and Ian Rush. But if people asked where I lived, I’d say ‘oh about…