When we can we ask people in the know for their tips on what to buy or try in the world of wine and spirits. It also makes a change from listening to Henry drone on. Here are all those videos – the most recent of which come from our trip to the Big Fortified [...]
Tags: Henry Butler, Red wine, Restaurant, White wine, Wine tasting, Winebox tv
At the Big Fortified tasting we saw Madeira guru Trevor Elliot run a seminar on matching the fortified wine with food. Sounds bananas doesn’t it. But it can really work. First on economic grounds: if you’re someone who comes home and necks a bottle a night, my hats off to you. But you might want [...]
Tags: Big Fortified Tasting, Boal, Bual, Dessert Wine, Henry Butler, Madeira, Malmsey, Sweet Wine, Wine with food
Our tour of Northern Portugal started already worse for booze on a flight to Porto. Then we ventured out of our hotel (the great and inexpensive 6Only) to the streets of the great city. Porto can be described as “a town helping police with its enquiries” and our first beer, in the world’s worst brothel, [...]
Tags: 6Only, Henry Butler, ODE Winehouse, Porto, Portugal, Portuguese Wine, Vinho Verde
March 1st is National Pig Day. So we invited ourselves down to The Ginger Pig – one of the Bib Gourmand winning Ginger Group. We’ve picked three wines to go with Pork: Italian Gavi tastes of apples so is a natural fit. Spanish Rioja is made with Iberico ham in mind, so a red with [...]
Tags: Bairrada, Ben McKellar, Bib Gormound, Black Pudding, Gavi di Gavi, Ginger Pig, Guy Garvey, Henry Butler, Italian White, National Pig Day, Pork and wine, Spanish Red, The Ginger Pig Pub, The Gingerman, Wine with Pork
It’s that time again… After last year’s pink shorts, Henry takes to his bed to read out your (sometimes wine related) Valentine messages and recommends three wines to try on the dismal day: Prove your love with a £75 bottle from Molly Dooker in Australia, Carnival of Love. Stay in Oz for Double Love Trouble [...]
Tags: Australian Red, Ferrari, Henry Butler, Italian Sparkling Wine, Molly Dooker, Red wine, Some Young Punks, Valentine Messages, Valentine wine, Valentine's day, What to drink on Valentine's day
When we caught up with Richard Hemming who writes for JancisRobinson.com he suggested that food and sherry could be the next big thing. Then a book comes through the post of top chefs marrying recipes with food; then Pelham House Hotel asks us to host a sherry and food night. For those that can’t make [...]
Tags: Amontillado, Henry Butler, Jancis Robinson, Manzanilla, Pedro Ximenez, Pelham House, PX, Richard Corrigan, Richard Hemming, Sherry, Sherry from Jerez, Spanish wine
A final word from Booze Admiral Dave Brown while we had him. Something we find in the shops is people balking at the price of some lesser known or rare spirits: but some of them, as Cameraman has found out every night since we made our Rum special, are worth throwing in the extra penny [...]
Tags: 000 bottle of whisky, Adelphi, Balblair, Birthday Present Whiskey, Blandoch, Bottle of whisky price, Dave Broom, Duncan Taylor, Glenfarclas, Glenlivet, Henry Butler, how much?, Irish Whiskey, Japanese Whisky, Macallan, Malt Whiskey Flavor Map, Nikka Miyagikyo, Price of Whisky, Redbreast Whiskey, Scotch Malt Whisky Flavour Map, Scotch Malt Whisky Society, Smoky whisky, Talisker, Whisky, Whisky sherry casks, £50
It’s Burn’s Night: which means a sheep’s stomach filled with oats carried in by a man saying unintelligible sentences. Its also apparently means me wearing Cameraman’s kilt which he claims to have never worn with underpants, nor to have washed it for 14 years. We went to the laboratory/home of Whisky Dave Broom, one of [...]
Tags: Burn's Night, Burn's Supper, Campletown Distillery, Dave Broom, Henry Butler, Highland Park, Longrow CV whisky, Robbie Burns, Talisker Whisky, Whiskey, Whisky
Out with the old and in with the new – that’s the idea of National Toss a Fruitcake Day. It sort of works: shouting “piss off” to all the stodge and spice of the festive season by hurling the greatest symbol of it across a park accompanied by a primal scream. It being Pantomime season [...]
Tags: Benton dog, Christmas cake, Dessert Wine, Fenton, Henry Butler, Hungarian Wine, National Fruitcake Toss Day, National Toss a Fruitcake Day, Prune Eau de Vie, Sherry, Sweet Wine, Tokaji wine
Christmas has come early for Cameraman this Halloween as boss Henry agrees to enter novelist Peter James’ torture chamber and be strapped to the remarkably painful electrocution device. Henry has to answer as many questions as it takes to reach a total of 8. There are two points for a correctly answered Halloween based question, [...]
Tags: Electrocution quiz, Halloween Quiz, Halloween wines, Henry Butler, Perfect People, Peter James, Pumpkin Wine, Wine Quiz
