Chilling at Hill & Szrok

Getting my hands dirty at Pierro, Margaret River

The day job continues at Berry Bros. & Rudd, St James’s Street

While another year flies by, and I bid to make more of this site, a quick run-through of jottings past is due. Here is a short-list of the topics that I typed on in the not-so-recent months…

• Sensational grub served at the butcher’s counter at Hill & Szrok (a meal that remains one of my best from last year)
• As well as editing the Autumn/Winter 2018 issue of Berry Bros. & Rudd’s No.3 magazine, I traced the evolution of South Africa’s “New Wave” – talking to a few of the winemakers who make this such a remarkably exciting place for wine right now
• With four urban wineries operating in the Big Smoke, I talked to the winemakers practising their craft in London in my first piece for The Spectator
• A study in truly life-changing cheese at Cabotte
• Other lessons learnt during a crabby evening at Parsons
• Australia: spending three months in the land of Oz, I undertook my first vintage and attempted to explore as many of the region’s wineries as possible. Expect more to follow, but for now here are two posts from my time Down Under – one considering the challenges of a first vintage and how I emerged with little more experience and plenty more questions
• How science has and will change the way we eat and drink
• Getting serious about the issues facing the wine industry
• And – last for now – a spotlight on the rather dishy, yet equally talented, Mark le Roux from Waterford

Keep an eye out for more soon.