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Wine
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Muddy deal: 12 Xmas fine wines for your delectation
I’ve written before about indie wine merchants Watlington Fine Wines (confusingly still called Peter Osborne wines on the website!) whom I’ve used for the last few years for wine for dinner parties and other special occasions. Many of us still have the perception that indie wine shops are expensive but the reality is that […]
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WIN A £150 champers hamper!
How about a foodie flash comp to get you in the Christmas spirit? The brilliant, award-winning No2 Pound St wine shop and deli in Wendover are offering Muddy readers a deluxe £150 champer-hamper to tickle along the Crimbo celebrations. I know, aren’t they nice?! It’s just a quickie (as Mr Muddy likes to tell me […]
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Go on, be a rebel
I’ve been on wine courses. I’ve munched my way through cheese nights. I still know next to naff all about both! Usually when I buy wine and cheese for a dinner party or Christmas I look at the label, and the cleverest name or prettiest label usually win. None of us need or particularly want […]
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The bubbles are back!
I featured Moore Champagne on the blog a few months back, a new venture from a local guy Richard Moore who brought back some Grower Champagnes to his home in Buckinghamshire after holidaying in Champagne last year, and quickly realised he was drinking something pretty special. You are sophisticates – of course! – so you’ll […]
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Champers alert
I’ve meant to write about this for nearly a month * sigh* . But as suspected the 2014 Muddy Awards have gone ballistic and I have been sucked into the vortex, so apologies for the radio silence the last few days. I don’t pretend to be a wine expert, although I have done a couple […]
