Tag: Billericay

• An Eye on Nelson

  There is a beautiful little corner in the north of the south island of New Zealand, one of so many gorgeous regions of this wonderful country which I visited with a small group of New Zealand wine writers for a couple of days to keep an eye on Nelson. Nelson is one of the smallest wine…

  Wink Lorch

  December 17, 2014

  New Zealand, Travel, Wine, Wine Blog

  Billericay, Essex, Harakeke Farm, Harbour Light Bistro, Hopgood’s, Kahurangi Estate, Kina Beach, Kina Cliffs, Marlborough, Moutere Hills, Nelson, Neudorf, New Zealand, Seifried, Waimea Plains, Wine Nelson, Woollaston

• An Australian Wine Tasting in Billericay

  It had stopped raining but we hadn’t seen the sun in Essex for at least ten days, so it was a great pleasure earlier this week to enjoy some bottled sunshine from Australia. Twenty eager tasters came to the Village Bar and Grill, on Billericay High Street, to learn more about Australian wines, their regionality…

  Wink Lorch

  February 28, 2010

  Wine, Wine Blog

  Adelaide Hills, Balnaves, Barossa Valley, Billericay, Canberra, Clare Valley, Clonakilla, Coonawarra, Cullen, Innocent Bystander, John Duval, Margaret River, Mount Horrocks, Omrah, Shaw and Smith, Village Bar and Grill

• What wine do you like?

  There is far too much snobbery about wine as well as fear of the unknown. The best way to learn about wine is to taste it; be adventurous and look for different wines when you shop or when you’re in a restaurant or bar. A number of good wine shops have enomatic wine dispensing machines,…

  Wink Lorch

  January 22, 2010

  Wine, Wine Blog

  Billericay, Bottle Apostle, Budometer, Enomatic, Tim Hanni, Webber’s Wine Bar

• A Portuguese wine tasting in Billericay

  Earlier this week I introduced 27 people to the joys and delights of the wines of Portugal or, rather, showed them eight wines, as a number of the tasters often travel to that lovely country, and several have tasted Portuguese wines with me before and enjoyed them in my wine club cases. The spacious first…

  Wink Lorch

  April 23, 2009

  Wine, Wine Blog

  Billericay, Circle of Wine Writers, Dao, Gilbert and Sullivan, Joao Portugal Ramos, Portugal, Trial by Jury