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Paula’s Wines of the Week starting 7th March 2016

You may think paying around six quid for a bottle of wine is expensive but to the wine trade this is the cheaper end of the market. Because of both inflation and consumer spending habits the wine prod ...

admin 2365 views 1 likes Mar 7, 2016

Paula’s Wines of the Week starting 22 February 2016

If being a wine writer is all about ‘tasting vast quantities of wine’, why isn’t everyone doing it? Because as wine writer Geoff Adams explains in his chapter on Wine Journalism (Specialist Journalism ...

admin 1494 views 0 likes Feb 22, 2016

The colour of Autumn

So summer is over and it’s back to school. Many of us grandparents have been helping out with childcare in the long summer holidays and while I love having the grandkids it is very tiring, so I can no ...

Mark 2032 views 0 likes Sep 28, 2015

Paula’s Wines of the Week starting 21 September 2015

Last week I reviewed the more expensive wines (ranging from £14.99 down to £7.99) of Lidl’s recent additions to its Wine Cellar range – and this week I promised a look at the £5.99 and £4.99 win ...

admin 2242 views 0 likes Sep 23, 2015