Tastings in London on successive days organised by a pair of high-profile retailers could hardly have been more different – modish wine merchant Shrine to the Vine (the retail arm of Noble Rot and importer Keeling Andrew) v superior supermarket Waitrose. Above, a beach trip for the team at south-west France specialist Lionel Osmin who produced one of the best-value wines of the Keeling Andrew showing.
At the paulée dinner at one of London’s three Noble Rot wine bar/restaurants after the associated wine importer Keeling Andrew’s annual portfolio tasting, several of the wine producers there commented, ‘you worked so hard...