Archive for July, 2009

Mid-morning Ruinart

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Winston Churchill’s Champagne habit is well known – at 11am he enjoyed his first drink of the day, an Imperial Pint of Pol Roger’s Winston Churchill. That’s two thirds

The Goedhuis & Co Away Day

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Last Thursday was the Goedhuis & Company away day. A day every year where we all descend on the Chairman’s home in Northamptonshire and do our best to drink

Clos St Denis Laurent Ponsot 1945 - I don’t think so

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Back in November when we lunched with Laurent Ponsot he was, unsurprisingly, very exercised about a collection of fake Ponsot bottles entered for auction

Another Tuscan Dinner

Monday, July 20th, 2009

Our Tuscan dinner in June sold out in two days and was a great success. We absolutely love Manicomio, so it makes perfect sense to organise another dinner

Ashes to Ashes

Monday, July 13th, 2009

I don’t pretend to know much about cricket… At prep school I was a “fast” bowler, equally revered and feared within a 10 mile radius of Watford