It'll soon be time to start stocking up on the Christmas booze. Here's The Dabbler's wine expert Henry Jeffreys on good ordinary claret... What thing is the most evocative of Christmas? For some it’s the sound of carol singing, for others it’s the unwrapping of presents, for me it’s the sediment ... Read More...
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The Dabbler's wine correspondent Henry Jeffreys finds it's never too early to open a bottle of sherry... Sherry is the very opposite of a modern wine – it’s not fruity, it’s not made from a well-known grape variety and worst of all for the accountants who run most of the larger ... Read More...
Dabbler wine correspondent Henry Jeffreys reports on the new breed of wine merchants... Do you remember when bookshops started sprouting coffee shops? People will come for a coffee, browse and end up buying a book or so the logic went. Something similar is happening with wine merchants. Traditionally they were forbidding ... Read More...
The Dabbler's wine correspondent Henry Jeffreys explains why rich people are fools and launches an occasional series offering tips on how you can buy very good wine without breaking the bank... Money is wasted on the rich. When I see footballers driving their identical Bentley Continentals I think how much better I could have spent ... Read More...
Introducing The Dabbler's new wine correspondent... My name is Henry Jeffreys and I’m a wine bore. Few of my friends share my interest so I started a blog as an outlet for all the useless knowledge I was accumulating. I don’t drink good wine to show off and I don’t only ... Read More...
