Christopher Walkey

We hold many wine tastings for those consumers who are intrigued to know that little bit more about sparkling wines and one of the most popular facts that surprise many starting off their journey of wine education is that black grapes do not contain red grape juice and that white wines can be produced from…

Coming from East London myself I am very familiar with pie and mash, I have visited many times varied shops selling this quite basic yet globally famous dish. History of Pie & Mash The east end of London was generally seen as the working class and cheaper area of the capital mostly down to the…

“Co-op Group is the UK’s largest mutual business, owned by millions of UK consumers.” When it comes to finding some decent wine within UK supermarkets there is plenty of choice to indulge in. Many supermarkets that are household names now stock quite in-depth wine lists and especially visible within the larger stores – A lot…

Having recently, quite literally, popped over to Austria thanks to an invitation to the Slovenian winery Radgonske gorice, I simply had to indulge in some fine ‘hearty’ Austrian cuisine whilst I was there. Austria is landlocked with eight countries bordering it (hard for me to imagine as I now live with sea views from my…

It may surprise many and indeed raise an eyebrow or two if I mention that some fine English sparkling wine is being produced up near Wolverhampton. It is usually the south of England that has claimed the fame of holding the vines that are producing the best English wines and fizz, but the fine wine…