This video will change the way you order and drink wine. But some background: We’re at Hotel TerraVina, being hosted by Gerard Basset, the World’s Best Wine Sommelier, and cameraman says let’s go to the pub. We play darts, and sink four pints. Then we go back to the hotel for dinner, and Msr Basset [...]
Tags: Gerard Basset, Henry Butler, Hotel TerraVina, Red wine Portugal, Ways to describe wine, Wine descriptors
Gerard Basset has achieved something few people ever do: to be the World’s Best Sommelier and a Master of Wine. The latter is like a traditional exam, while becoming World Sommelier is like being in a combination of Masterchef, X factor and Its a Knock-Out all at the same time, with audiences and judges. So [...]
Tags: Gerard Basset, Henry Butler, Master of Wine, Terravina Hotel, World's Best Sommelier
Gerard Basset is a wine celebrity like no other. He is currently World’s Best Sommelier – which means he is the best man on the planet for helping you choose what to drink. Fact. The co-founder of Hotel Du Vin is tireless in trying to break down wine snobbery and get people turned on to [...]
Tags: Career Advice for Food and Drink, Career in hotel and leisure, Gerard Basset, Henry Butler, Hotel and Leisure Careers, Hotel TerraVina, Master of Wine, TerraVina, Terravina Hotel, Wine advice, Wine Champion, Wine in the UK, Wine tips, World's Best Sommelier
It is with some trepidation that we give you our Valentine Special. Somewhere in here are 5 wines that we recommend to make your Valentine’s Day extra special – but they are cloaked in the lusty, crude, heart-breaking and down right bizarre messages you sent in for me to read to your Valentine. More of [...]
Tags: Breaky Bottom English Wine, Henry Butler, Love, Messages, Pasion Red Wine, Some Young Punks Wine, sparkling wine, Valentine's day
For programme 50 (yes, really) we asked for your fun or awful wine labels but we don’t want to limit that to just wine. Please send in examples of any booze that is classy or crass in design. In the shop we’re stocking Berry Bros & Rudd No. 3 Gin which is a superlative drink, [...]
Tags: Berry Bros, Bottle design, Dave Goom, Gin, Henry Butler, London Dry Gin, Wine labels
Right, we thought we’d kick off our new year of programmes (season 2 if you like) by getting both of you off your arses and involved. We featured the artistic label work of Michel Gondry and Gunter Grass in an earlier programme but its still the funky labels of Australian winemakers Some Young Punks that [...]
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