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Paula’s Wines of the Week – Week starting 22 June 2020

By age 35 you should you should have at least twice your annual salary saved for the day you can stop working – so goes the conventional wisdom dished out by financial advisors. But it left me w ...

andrew 286 views 0 likes Jun 23, 2020

What has the European Union ever done for us wine drinkers?

Paula Goddard’s Wines of the Week starting 25th February 2019 So what has the European Union ever done for us wine drinkers? Well quite a bit as it happens. Because until Britain joined the EEC (as it ...

Mark 1392 views 0 likes Feb 26, 2019

Biodynamic grape-growing practice contains some sound gardening chemistry

Paula Goddard’s Wines of the Week starting 18th February 2019 Wine makers who practise the extreme form of organic grape growing, known as biodynamics, believe that only by putting back into the soil ...

Mark 833 views 0 likes Feb 19, 2019

Paula’s Wines of the Week starting 21st January 2019

At a wine tasting event expect to sniff and taste up to six wines. Your host will encourage everyone to describe the wines for themselves, with perhaps a little prompting. So when the inevitable “so w ...

Mark 1117 views 0 likes Jan 22, 2019