Author: John

Beer

Tasting Nook Brewery’s Red Beer (Episode 71 Part 3)

In the 3rd part of this Episode, we taste the Nook Brewery's Red beer. This beer has more of a delicious caramel flavour and was the 2nd beer to be…
Beer

Tasting The Nook Brewery’s Blond Beer (Episode 71 Part 2)

In this part of the Episode, we taste the Nook Brewery's most popular beer - their Blonde Beer. This beer is the lightest of those available from the Nook Brewery.…
Beer

Introducing Nook Brewery’s Brewmaster (Episode 71 Part 1)

We interview Ian Roberts the Brewmaster of the Nook Brewery to learn how the brewery was conceived and what drove him and his colleagues, to what many of us would…
Beer

Tasting Craft Beer From the Nook Brewery (Episode 71 Introduction)

We quickly introduce this episode where we have the honour of tasting some craft beer with the guidance of the brewmaster himself – Mr Ian Roberts. Ian has been kind…
Italian Wine

Tasting a Garganega and Pinot Grigio blended wine from M&S (Episode 70 Part 3)

In the last part of this episode, we taste what John L thought was a regional Pinot Grigio, but the region turned out to be a Grape Variety:-) Still some…
Pinot Grigio

Tasting Pinot Grigio from Sainsbury’s (Episode 70 Part 2)

In this part of the episode, we taste another Pinot Grigio, this time from the UK High Street Food retailer/supermarket chain Sainsbury's. This wine is from Sainsbury's Taste the Difference…
Italian Wine

Tasting Pinot Grigio from Aldi (Episode 70 Part 1)

In the first part of this episode, we taste the first of our three Pinot Grigios from the supermarket chain Aldi – Pinot Grigio Delle Venezie 2015. And what a…
Italian Wine

Tasting Pinot Grigio (Episode 70 Introduction)

In this episode, we taste three Pinot Grigio from Sainsburys, Marks & Spencer and Aldi. These three great Pinot Grigio wines all have their own character - so what did…
Argentinian Wine

Tasting a Chardonnay from Aldi (Episode 69 Part 3)

In the last part of this episode, we taste a limited bottled Argentinian chardonnay from Aldi. So how did it compare with the Chardonnays from Sainsburys and Marks & Spencer?…
Californian

Chardonnay from Marks & Spencer (Episode 69 Part 2)

In this part of the episode, we taste a fantastic oaked Chardonnay from California. It is available from Marks and Spencer and what a fantastic example of an oaked chardonnay…