Archive for 'Wine'

Wine & spirit sale offers opportunity for bargain booze to celebrate jubilee in style On Saturday 12th May Bromsgrove auctioneers Lucius Morris will be selling the wine cellar of a late Midland legal gentleman at their Catshill premises.  It will, they believe, be a splendid opportunity to pick up some real bargains to help celebrate [...]

80 year-old Wine Writer’s New Business Venture What do you do when, facing your 80th birthday, the economy strangles a way of earning your living?   Give up and retire? well not Philippe Boucheron.   The doyen of Midland wine and food writers is applying for a licence and plans giving tastings and wine dinners at his [...]

The Mystery of Port Philippe Boucheron asks ~ Do you know the Bishop of Norwich? The wine world is full of many strange customs. None of them are more archaic than the traditions surrounding drinking vintage Port.  Because the wine has been matured in its bottle there is always a great deal of sediment left [...]

National Wine Month Events ~ May is National Wine month in the UK, celebrating wines from around the world, and encouraging diners and winers to venture out, and put the fun back in to wine. Local wine writer and broadcaster Philippe Boucheron is holding a series of wine dinners and suppers in association with Gourmet-Life [...]

Make Time for Wine We are supporting National Wine Month for May, and have created a series of Wine and food events in association with our wine writer Philippe Boucheron and Midlands Lifestyle Dining Club www.gourmet-life.co.uk. Why dont you make time for wine in May, with some tasty new events listed on eat-the-midlands.  See our [...]

Now open is ‘Beef Restaurant’ ~ Andreas Antona’s latest Creation  in Kenilworth – Focusing on Andreas ‘ favourite ingredient’ – Andreas comments on the menu “I believe that the very best beef in the world comes from Scotland – there’s nothing to beat the combination of intense flavour, rich texture and visual appeal. So my [...]

See Will Holland on BBC’s ‘Great British Menu’ Starter Episode 1 HERE Episode 2) Fish Course…HERE Episode 3) Just Desserts HERE Episode 4) Final Judgement Day HERE Michelin Event Review, with Will Holland: Wednesday 14th April saw a great team success at La Becasse Michelin Restaurant, Ludlow. The brigade on the night, created an exemplorary 7 [...]

La Becasse Michelin Star Restaurant, Ludlow ~ Chateauneuf du Pape, and Michelin Menu Selection Evening Wednesday 14th April 2010, 7.30pm “Wine from Châteauneuf brings courage, melody, love and joy” Frederic Mistral – poet, author and Nobel Prize Winner for literature. Gourmet-Life Midlands Lifestyle Dining Club are delighted to be associated with this exceptional event hosted [...]

Philippe Boucheron To many people the mere mention of Port conjures up images of crusty old colonels sitting in their clubs, falling asleep over their after dinner glass of Taylor’s ’63.  A very great vintage that had been ceremoniously decanted that morning by the Club secretary. In fact Port is slowly but surely undergoing a [...]

Old Rec, New Chef ~ Putting the Fun back into Eating Out Three rousing cheers for Matt Denwood who has put much-needed Fun back into eating out in Worcester. There is nothing the least bit snooty-nosed about his simple dining bar and restaurant beside the river Severn. The bar offers an international range of beers [...]