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The very latest posts from over 20 UK wine, beer and cider blogs:

• Home Brewer Makes Jolly Good Beer Shocker
  posted at 19:01 on 10/03 by Melissa Cole at Taking the beard out of beer!
  "All right, I know I'm going to get strung up for that headline but the last three home brews I've been daft enough to accept have (in order) made me vomit, made me gag at the smell and have not even..."
• Olly Smith's Drink Tank
  posted at 15:50 on 10/03 by (author unknown) at [Spittoon] Full Postings
  "Channelflip Media, a London-based production company specialising in making three minute video shorties has released a "a light-hearted, funny wine show, called Olly Smith's Drink Tank"; the latest..."
• Lickfold Inn, Surrey
  posted at 10:51 on 10/03 by Alastair Bathgate at Confessions of a Wino
  "Forgive the personal indulgence but this weblog is, in many ways, a record of my life, albeit told in the hazy after-mists of empty wine bottles.  For a small portion of it, as a toddler in the..."
• Food Foundations
  posted at 09:00 on 10/03 by Douglas Blyde at Intoxicating Prose
  "Coinciding with Shrove Tuesday, I ventured to Leith’s School of Food and Wine, Hammersmith, to meet acting Managing Director, Jenny Stringer. How did Leith’s begin? In 1975, Prudence Margaret Leith..."
• Understanding the Italian Wine Classification System!
  posted at 05:12 on 10/03 by former winemerchant at UKWinesOnline
  "Italy as we all know is a country with a rich and long heritage of producing fine wines. It’s history, like it’s wine, shares a lot of similarities with neighbouring France, but there are a number of..."
• The Big Portuguese Tasting with Oz Clarke
  posted at 15:40 on 09/03 by (author unknown) at [Spittoon] Full Postings
  "A mamouth "wine tasting with a difference" s being organised for the 12th April - The Big Portuguese Tasting. You can participate from the comfort of your armchair (as I'm likely to do, perhaps with..."
• Government report says Mandatory Code on pubs not needed - govt introduces it anyway
  posted at 15:23 on 09/03 by Pete Brown at Pete Brown's Beer Blog
  "Catching up with myself, I thought that overall it would be less embarrassing if I started at the back with the really old correspondence and notes I haven't yet dealt with rather than starting with..."
• Chinese Buy Australian Wineries
  posted at 11:29 on 09/03 by Nick at Bordeaux-Undiscovered
  "My good friend Wilf over at Wilf's Wine Press reported recently on Chinese Wine being made in Australia. Chinese investors are looking to expand their investments and are buying wineries in South..."
• 2-day sale at Waitrose Wine Direct
  posted at 00:01 on 09/03 by former winemerchant at UKWinesOnline
  "For just 2 days only (8-9 March 2010) Waitrose Wine Direct is offering up to 25% off  its 40 Best Selling wines and spirits -  and  there are more offers running to midnight on Tuesday 16 March 2010..."
• WEBrew with Purity
  posted at 19:13 on 08/03 by Melissa Cole at Taking the beard out of beer!
  "I am so incredibly excited about the fact that there is a new brewery launching called Windsor & Eton Brewery! Given that it's in my old neck of the woods I hope it's going to be fabulous. I was..."
• Interview with Claudio Rosso, President of the Langhe and Roero Consorzio
  posted at 15:21 on 08/03 by David Berry Green at Berrys' Wine Blog
  "At the end of the month Signor Claudio Rosso bows out after three years as the (Honorary) President of the Langhe and Roero Consorzio, representing most – but not all – of the hundreds of (Nebbiolo,..."
• Red Wine Drinkers Gain Less Weight
  posted at 11:26 on 08/03 by Nick at Bordeaux-Undiscovered
  "There is good news for women who enjoy a glass of red wine - researchers have found that regular moderate female drinkers were less likely to become obese after a 13 year study of more than 19,000..."
• La Cuisine for the Wine Savvy
  posted at 10:00 on 08/03 by Douglas Blyde at Intoxicating Prose
  "IF YOU head over to Andrew Barrow's excellent site, Spittoon, you will find my write-up on a very special lunch prepared by one Monsieur Robuchon, with wines by his friend, Bernard..."
• La Cuisine for the Wine Savvy
  posted at 12:50 on 07/03 by (author unknown) at [Spittoon] Full Postings
  "La Cuisine For the Wine Savvy: A Guest Post by Douglas Blyde: With 25 to his name, the world's most Michelin starred chef, Joël Robuchon announced a culinary collaboration with 'true friend' and..."
• At conference
  posted at 10:49 on 07/03 by Pete Brown at Pete Brown's Beer Blog
  "Writing this on my way home from the SIBA annual conference, on a cold, draughty train with no tables, no refreshment trolley, no power sockets. Wedged sideways on a hard, narrow seat, developing..."
• St Patricks Day Tasting
  posted at 05:47 on 08/03 by former winemerchant at UKWinesOnline
  "March 17, 2010 Evuna, Manchester’s Spanish-focussed Wine Bar/Restaurant/Wine Club will be celebrating St Patrick’s Day (17 March 2010) with an organic wine tasting. Why Organic ? Organic wines are..."
• Burgundy En-Primeur Tasting
  posted at 10:26 on 07/03 by former winemerchant at UKWinesOnline
  "March 26, 20102:00 pmto5:00 pm Fareham Wine Cellar is holding a tasting of en-Primeur Burgundies from Louis Jadot on 20 March 2010 …we are holding a tasting of all of the Louis Jadot 2008..."
• Clos la Coutale, Cahors 2007
  posted at 20:30 on 06/03 by Alastair Bathgate at Confessions of a Wino
  "I’ve just been dribbling all over the en-primeur Burgundy 2008 catalogue from the Wine Society.  I lined up a number of superbly priced selections and my wobbly knees were barely capable of carrying..."
• 2010 Harvest Reports
  posted at 18:33 on 06/03 by Peter F May for The Pinotage Club at The Pinotage Club
  "Harvest reports are coming inIlse van Dijk, winemaker at Deetlefs Estate, is poetic when describing the intensity of the 2010 harvest: “It feels like walking into a perfume factory, with..."
• Order the definitive book on British beer styles now
  posted at 16:07 on 06/03 by zythophile at Zythophile
  "It’s now less than one month to go to the official publication of Amber, Gold and Black, The History of Britain’s Great Beers, the first book devoted solely to the development of beer styles in..."

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