Douglas Blyde: Whine Wine Whine

Despite the insistence by my overpaid, non-journalist friends that they surely are ‘drinking holidays’, wine press trips can prove to be compact, intricate endurance tests. Yes, I can hear you all now as you go to your store rooms to locate the world’s smallest flight case, carefully extracting from it the world’s smallest violin to…
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Master of the Grape Arts

We’ll be raiding the racks to bring you the finest wines known to humanity. Or at least to Master Sommelier, Christopher Delalonde. Like everyone for a taste of the finer things in life, we at LUSSO like to think of ourselves as having refined and elevated senses. Whether the feel of a scarf made from…
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John Graves – Our Vintner of Discontent

‘I don’t know much about wine, but I know what I like.’ Here’s an opposing theory. No, you sodding don’t. Or as they say in Hull: “ooo I doo layk a glass of drey waat whane, it’s terribly civilyzzzed”. Music to the ears of any vendor of wine in establishments from a white tablecloth restaurant, to a…
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