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Oz Clarke

8 months

Today is the day you can uncork my new book, Oz Clarke's Story of Wine: 8000 Years, 100 Bottles. Out in hardback, ebook, and, narrated by me for the first time ever, in audiobook, for you to savour and enjoy 🍷

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Oz Clarke

@ozclarke

8 months

The Ritz! A perfect place for lunch after getting my OBE from the King at Buckingham Palace. The staff and kitchen were on top form and clearly I’m ready for a top up of this scrumptious Fleurie 2020 Domaine de Fa which positively purred with succulent Suffolk lamb.

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@ozclarke

4 years

My book on English (and Welsh) wine is out — NOW

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@ozclarke

4 years

There’s only one rule for English Wine Week - everybody- and that means you- HAS to drink at least one bottle of English wine. Preferably from a winery local to you, a member of your own community- the one you live in and are so keen to preserve in tough times. Now’s the time...

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@ozclarke

4 years

Musar 2013. This’ll wake you up at the start of the week

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@ozclarke

10 months

I mean it James!!!!!!!!!

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@ozclarke

3 years

I’ve just won first prize in The Queen’s English Society Awards for my writing in English Wine . I’m thrilled. In fact I’m reet chuffed. ( now,now,; that’s enough of the vernacular: ed).

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@ozclarke

3 years

Dear Steven. God bless you old friend. I hope you managed one last, proud, lingering look at your lovely Bride Valley vineyards as dark winter turned to Spring.

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@ozclarke

3 years

I know, I know. But my brother came round................

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@ozclarke

4 years

Somehow today, after all that heat, had me pining for a long, cool fraught of red Bordeaux

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@ozclarke

5 months

Proudly receiving my Officier Gong from the Ambassador at the stunning French Residence in Kensington Palace Gardens. And, of course, ace ultra-French patisserie canapés and very tasty Mumm Champagne. The Entente Cordiale is 120 years old this year. Long may it continue

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3 years

It’s British Pie Week. This is MASSIVE. This isn’t National Periwinkle week or National Mangleworzel week or Global cocktail-no one’s-ever-heard of-week. This MATTERS! And I’ve got today sorted. Petrus and Pie. Perfick.

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@ozclarke

1 year

A terrible bereavement this week. I needed something to celebrate all the bottles we’d shared- the old and filthy, the wild, wonderful and weird. I chose La Lagune 1982. Just, just right. How good? A 98? Please…There’s no mark for a wine that helps to mend a broken heart.

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@ozclarke

8 months

I may look bemused - well.. you would too… I’ve just tasted this range of Marlborough 2023 Sauvignons - really tasty - but I’m not finished yet - I’ve got a slurpy slew of Savvies going right back to 2009 coming up - and one of them is from Kaikoura- whale watching paradise-cool

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@ozclarke

4 years

It’s here!!! This is my new book on English wine. Without Covid we would have launched it last week. The official publication date is now Sept 3 but there are copies in the country and we’ve been feverishly sending them out in time for English Wine Week - which starts tomorrow

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@ozclarke

4 years

Ah.... another nice old darling...

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@ozclarke

6 months

1985 . One of the truly superb Bordeaux vintages, dismissed by the old time curmudgeons as being simply too delicious to be great.What? Like 1982, 1961 , 1959 and 1953? Yeah, really tough when a wine never goes through a bad patch and is sheer joy at 48 years old. Happy Christmas

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3 years

The wine… supreme, peerless, good enough. The football… nearly, nearly, nearly… But this team will come again. The wine? No…My last 1966 - and a fitting farewell… Thank you 1966 for all the pleasure you’ve given me. Time to move on - like the football…

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@ozclarke

4 years

It’s Negroni week. Don’t say you didn’t know....

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@ozclarke

5 years

Hmmm.NYE. thought I’d be classic & cool so I whacked open a Taittinger 89 - it has party fizz still but too Sherryish to shimee. So here’s a 6 yo Moët NV- on the dull side- but 6 parts Moët 4 parts Taittinger 89-and - wow - utterly enticing fizz. I think I’m going to Charleston.

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@ozclarke

6 years

@MrJamesMay Dear May. That’s because you haven’t got my supreme recipe, fathead. You only have to beg. It includes chopped hot chillies, port, chocolate,ginger wine, Cointreau, linseed oil, WD 40, Duckham’s 20-50, Swarfega, and two squirts of Redex. Your Rotary Wankel of a mind will explode

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@ozclarke

1 year

I certainly didn’t do a dry January- maybe I just pined for an unthirsty Thursday. So I had a go at a couple of no-lo wines; didn’t finish the glass; tried some zero alcohol gins and thought— WHY?? Then tried these no-lo beers - they were absolute crackers. No-lo? Stick to beer

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@ozclarke

5 years

@Rick_Stein @tomparkerbowles Dear Rick. I am so sorry. I have many fond and bibulous memories of David stretching right back to his riotous times with Keith Floyd. I hope you’re OK. Oz

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2 years

Anthony Barton has died. Bordeaux at its best. Bordeaux at its nicest. The finest of fellows. And a proud Irishman to boot. RIP

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4 years

After all these years.The catastrophe I feared almost above all others. And I’d avoided it. Until today, when out of a clear blue sky, no warning, just.... blat, splat,... a full bumful of seagull shit, lime-white- the head first, then the forehead , the nose, and at last,my chin

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@ozclarke

3 years

So, farewell, longest day of the year. No glimpse of sun, instead- the rough slap of gales, the morbid drip of sallow rain off the gutters. It’s like old times. In its bizarre way we’re having an old fashioned English summer. Thank goodness it’s English Wine Week to cheer us up

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@ozclarke

4 years

Don’t want to harp on about it, but here’s me with another day in paradise at Ashling Park judging the WineGB Awards. A Spitfire has just being doing loop-the-loops in the blue sky above, scudding below wisps of cotton wool clouds,and a fragile breeze ripples the air around me...

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4 years

My first drink of this Christmas Day. I expected it to be good but I didn’t bargain on it being this good. Spectacular, scented , so balanced it’s almost suave, with delicate fruit reminiscent of Fife’s finest raspberries. Ridiculously enjoyable. Damn, the bottle’s empty....

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@ozclarke

4 years

I may have been planning English Wine Week but I have been DRINKING South African Chenin Blanc. Not a bad idea because tomorrow is #DrinkChenin day and remembering what a rough time South African Wine producers have had this year, perhaps we should all raise a glass of Chenin....

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@ozclarke

3 years

Come on lads, bring it home

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@ozclarke

4 years

Another perfect day in paradise judging the WineGB Awards. How long can I make this last for?

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@ozclarke

4 years

No parties in our street last night. No fireworks display. Just a bunch of Canadians, Danish, Irish, Italians, Germans, Americans and British all getting along, all happy to live together in our street. A few hugs, and now we will all get on with making it work- all of us.....

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@ozclarke

4 years

Well done everyone for making GBWIne Good Friday such a whopping success. It’s given me the taste.... GBWIne Easter Saturday is next.... cheers to everyone. Every English wine we drink is helping keep our burgeoning, brave English- and Welsh! - winemaking world strong...

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@ozclarke

8 months

I said I wanted to explore the furthest reaches of Hawkes Bay, not just the usual Gimblett Gravels and Bridge Pa. I got more than I bargained for as I climbed Te Mata peak, got pedalling, jetboated up to Crownthorpe and frightened myself to death in a Tiger Moth. Thirsty work…

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@ozclarke

4 years

Never waste a Bank Holiday Weekend.......

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@ozclarke

4 years

Here’s to all my South African friends. Keep at it. Things will get better. With us and with you. Cheers

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@ozclarke

9 months

At last!! A brewery that hasn’t forgotten how to brew a proper IPA. This is a smasher. It tastes pretty much like Jaipur used to taste 15 years ago. It’s even 5.9 ABV. Pity I had to come all the way to Singapore to find it

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@ozclarke

5 years

Five jobs I’ve had. 1) Steelyard worker. 2) Door to door encyclopaedia salesman. 3) Wood turner. 4) Hotel Bellboy. 5) Mechanical digger road repairer. And the worst of all - encyclopaedia salesman. If there is a hell its name is —. door to door encyclopaedia salesman.

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@ozclarke

5 years

..... Let’s not think we in Europe are immune. Ring, text, tweet anyone you know in Australia to tell them we care - and that their fires just may be the wake up call we all need. And for that great “Australian” , beloved Hazel Murphy- God Bless you- RIP.

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@ozclarke

3 years

Welsh Wine Week is coming up on June 4. To anyone living within a spittoon’s length of Wales who hasn’t tried their local wine - shame on you. You’ve got till June 13 to do the decent thing and support your local vineyards. And add in some Welsh lamb, cheese and Charcuterie too

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@ozclarke

3 years

May 7 is #SauvignonBlancDay . Don’t say I’m not raring to go. I am one of the world’s most thirsty Sauvignon Blanc fans, and I’ve lined up these crackers from our top Sauvignon countries- New Zealand, South Africa and Chile- all absurdly tasty, all intriguingly different...

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@ozclarke

3 years

What was I thinking? On the hottest day of the summer… why, why, why do I open these??? It’s just….. it’s just….. it’s just……I wanted to. Sometimes wine’s like that. You just want those bottles and no others. On the hottest day of summer. The 77 was better…..

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@ozclarke

3 years

-27C today. I know just how he felt- and I’ve got 5 layers on

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@ozclarke

4 years

I am delighted and honoured to be shortlisted by @beard foundation for the 2020 James Beard Awards with my book “Red & White”. Thank you very much. And congratulations to my fellow nominees.

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@ozclarke

8 months

The view from my room at the Lochmara lodge this morning. Then me after a mildly unwise swim in the Marlborough Sounds. Blimey! It looked so inviting. After about 30 seconds I realised I couldn’t feel my extremities - any of them. It was like Cleethorpes on August Bank Holiday

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@ozclarke

3 years

Just been re-reading this. Richard Neill was star of young wine writing a generation ago. He quit to work with street kids in Venezuela, then became a teacher. Now he has motor neurone disease. Tomorrow is his birthday. We should all raise a glass and drink to a brave, good man.

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@ozclarke

2 years

Been out in the vineyards this week researching for the new edition of my English Wines. Sun and frost. Everything pure,clean.Race course, golf course, crystal white. Lakes sporting a thin sugar pane of crackly ice. The keen sun flickers like strobe lights through spindley trees

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@ozclarke

3 years

Wine as it was. Wine as it is. Wine as it will be. My stories. My opinions. My book 'Oz Clarke On Wine - Your Global Wine Companion' is available from @academie_du

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@ozclarke

2 years

The sun’s still out. The grass is green again. We’re still on course for a thrilling vintage in England and Wales. And the new edition of my Oz Clarke English Wine is out tomorrow. You can pre-order it today or wait till Sept 1 - hours away. But above all ENJOY it!!

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@ozclarke

3 years

These are my two favourite Sauvignons so far - but it could all change- there’s still a bit more drinking time left in Sauvignon Day...

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@ozclarke

6 years

What’s this? I’m launching my new book - Red & White - in two hours’ time and I’ve got a mug of jasmine tea in my hand. Where are my drinking friends when I need you? I’m looking at a bottle of Pichon Lalande 1982- unopened. Shameful. Well. I’ve got 2 hours, and if no one knocks-

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@ozclarke

2 years

Last night I stood outside in Cambridge listening to bell ringing as a shape-shifter fenland gale buffeted me and threatened to lift the clothing from my frame. And I felt consumed by a wonderfully English calm as the carillon swooped and swerved on the billowing wind

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@ozclarke

4 years

I will definitely be opening a gorgeous bottle of South African wine on Fri 22nd May - I urge you to do so too.

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@WOSA_UK

4 years

On Friday 22nd May we celebrate #SpectacularSouthAfrica by opening a bottle of delicious South African wine and #tastingtogether with our friends across the globe. If you have a bottle to hand, grab a corkscrew and join us.

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@ozclarke

5 years

Is this the day when winter turned? When the second half began? When the days get colder but they get longer, and the air seems clearer, the clouds higher, and the tiny thrill of optimism starts to flicker through life as the world turns its face towards Spring?

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@ozclarke

5 months

Memorable tasting of Rioja yesterday, so packed with innovation, interpretation of the vineyard and winemaking aimed at challenging and delighting the drinker in equal measure that my palate, brain and emotions were fizzing in unison at the end of it.And I thought I knew Rioja!!

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@ozclarke

11 months

Spent the last few days engrossed in ⁦ @jbonne ⁩’s The New French Wine. It’s a Tour de Force. Opinionated, impassioned, articulate, eloquent, this is a must-read for anyone who cares about French wine culture - past, present and future. Bravo Jon Bonne I raise my glass to you

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@ozclarke

4 years

Rozza was concerned about my health. So she turned up with these. ‘Perfect size for the lockdown’ she said. But they’re half bottles!! (The Piper is a bijou quarter) Hmm..maybe she’s right- perfect for a ‘crafty’ lockdown. I’ve got 6 Cumberland sausages in the fridge.Not for long

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4 months

This is the kind of thing you can get up to after visiting Ventisquero’s stunning and startling Tara vineyards in the Atacama desert, where it hasn’t rained for 50 years! It’s the middle of the night, I’ve got a glass of cracking Tara white- and that’s the Milky Way behind me

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@ozclarke

4 months

Now that’s what I call a proper vine. It was planted as a table grape in 1973, grafted onto Syrah in 1990- well, that’s what they THOUGHT- in fact it was Petite Sirah- which they could have just consigned to the bin, but instead Santa Rita make it into inspiring Bougainville red.

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@ozclarke

4 years

Kent Coast Crackers

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@ozclarke

5 years

Hmmm. Time to get up.... That was a most enjoyable Christmas. Superb mag of Lanson 96, delicious youthful Marimar Torres Pinot Noir 95, spot on mag of Talbot 96, lovely mellow Tim Adams Shiraz 04. And it wasn’t just me at them - my brother turned up... then .......

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@ozclarke

4 years

Just had a good old saucepan bang for the NHS and now - getting my priorities right- a Saint George’s Day snifter. So I’m opening Fox & Fox’s CV Brut 2014 from Mayfield in East Sussex where, in a pre-Covid world, I would have been performing at their Festival in 2 weeks...

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4 years

I have spent a very happy afternoon tasting some New York Wines - keep an eye on my Twitter feed for a few of my discoveries @NYWineGrapeFdn @RandRDrinkers

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@ozclarke

3 years

Well, if it’s lockdown all over again, I’d better start ‘lockdown tasting’ all over again- solitary sorties into the darkest recesses of under the stairs to wheedle out dusty delights for auto-delectation - fabulously fresh 2011 Etna and gorgeous ‘11 Roussillon- oh, and the beer!

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4 years

Feeling a bit retro... surely this NZ Chardie will be too old, but I’ve learned that all Kiwi whites have an astonishing ability to keep going. This is a colour you’d worry about telling your doctor but it’s a feisty, strapping barleysugar and syrup delight. And a hint of scent

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@ozclarke

3 years

This should get my Bank Holiday weekend going. Delightful, gentle Wilcote 16 supporting Bridewell mental health charity, thrilling Rathfinny Blanc de Blancs 17- their best yet, Fragrant, different Bacchus from Gutter&Stars and Chapel Down + remarkable Gusbourne 809 Chardonnay 19

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1 year

Kings Road’s first daffodil. It’s freezing, but Spring will not be denied. What shall I open to celebrate??

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@ozclarke

6 years

It’s here! A copy of my new book Red and White! And my bro turned up. So we drank Cloudy Bay Chardonnay 1986 - their first ever? - and Cloudy Bay Sauvignon 1989 - deep as treacle but magnificent - to honour the new wine world they ushered in

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@ozclarke

2 years

This New Zealand wine week is turning out to be a stunner. I’m hosting a thrilling Marlborough tasting tonight, we’ve got a fab bunch of Pinot Noirs on Thursday, and I’ve just tasted the 2019 Gimblett Gravels selection. The Bordeaux blends are simply the best I can recall. Onward

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@ozclarke

6 years

Needed a stiffener before Midnight Mass. Hmm. Pornsac 1985. Cedar wood, graphite, autumn undergrowth, old,

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@ozclarke

4 years

The Furmint is one of the only Hungarian grapes you’ve got much hope of pronouncing correctly. Which is lucky because it makes spectacular wines in Tokaji, both sweet and dry. I’m hosting a tasting on Oct 30 at 7.30. Join me and see what all the fuss is about

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3 years

That’s the way to while away a winter weekend (and that’s enough w’s: ed).

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3 years

Lockdown libations. Burgundy week soldiers silently on. Into the cellar. I find a Mazis-Chambertin 1959. Looks tasty, but not on my tod. So... Sanford PN 1997- Santa Barbara- absolutely lovely, a mature delight. Cafaggio Ris. 2000 - v. global, not v. Chianti. Amarone? OK. No fun.

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5 years

Help! #Englishwineweek is already here and I’ve not started popping corks. Right! What have I got? 4 bottles, 4 counties- that’s a decent start. Simpson’s Chalkland from Kent, Exton Park Rose from Hants, Woodchester Sauvignon from Gloucs, & Bolney Pinot Noir. I’m raring to go....

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4 years

Well the lock down makes you think how best to spend your time. I spent today clearing the drains. Now, I’m not pretending I’m now a fully fledged drain expert, but I am bloody but unbowed (literally- 4 fingers mangled and counting), and the next rainstorm won’t flood the house..

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4 years

.... so my study shall be my church for the next couple of hours. I feel a tug to at least stray towards the churchyard for an hour or two, but I shall stay here and reflect. The cherry blossom is a riotous pink in our street. Nature telling us good times will return..

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3 years

Vermouth Day! Still time. In fact the perfect time. I’ve found a brilliant vermouth-Ataman- based on young and old Barbadillo Manzanilla. And you really taste the Sherry. Too good for a Negroni? Not when I’ve got the thrilling Garden Swift gin and a 40 year-old Campari to mix..

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4 years

Judging the #WineGB Awards in the heart of loveliest Sussex with a view like this from my tasting table at Ashling Park near Chichester. Where would I rather be? Nowhere.

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@ozclarke

4 years

Just been looking at the harrowing pictures of the fires on Napa Valley’s Spring Mountain. As winter settles over London it is chilling to think the USA’s “fires”season is by no means over yet. So let’s all raise a glass of California wine tonight. Mine’s from fire-wracked Newton

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4 years

Tomorrow! Saturday Oct 10! It’s California Calling time. James Martin and I will be eating and drinking California’s tastiest stuff and talking - well, about anything remotely Californian. Above all, with California still fighting its fires, we’ll be CELEBRATING California!!!!

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3 years

Well done, Hush Heath. It’s a hit!

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10 months

And off I go…..

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4 years

If you haven’t decided how to spend your evening on August 27 - let me decide for you - join me at 7.30 for an evening of tasting- well, drinking Great English wines from Bolney, Flint and Simpsons and for a chat about my new book English Wine. Contact Corkk or Three Wine Men

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2 years

For a masterclass in wine writing you rarely have to go further than Andrew Jefford. In this month’s World of Fine Wine he takes a little known, little regarded wine - a Petit Chablis- and writes almost a thousand words, swooping in and out of the wine itself and so much else too

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5 years

Here in Manchester’s Beer Moth after a great 3 Wine Men weekend, with a pint of English-hopped On Reflection pale, a chunk of Mrs. Kirkham’s Lancashire, and a pint ofTrack’s Porter to come- I think- this is a great country- whatever happens on Thursday, we’re all in this together

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4 years

I never learn. Off I go on another run fooling myself it will clear my brain when all it does is make me think wistfully about how how fleet of foot - and mind,probably- I used to be . Ah well- pant, pant - I’m tasting Flint from Norfolk, Galleywood from Essex and .........

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4 years

Quite emotional. The whole of my little Street was out on the pavement at 8 o’clock -clapping, shouting and banging saucepans. Proud of you... but it’s only just started....

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4 years

The day of reckoning. It’s exactly 4 months since I last handed over a used fiver for a trim. Is that enough? I feel as though I’m beginning to resemble a cross between Albert Einstein, Magnus Pike and David Attenborough - in hirsute terms, not levels of genius. Do I trim???....

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5 years

Desperate for a blast of fresh air in this wine world of ours? You should have been at the Real Wine Fair this weekend. You’d have found the kind of optimism, innovation, self-confidence and sheer exuberant barminess that you could find at other wine fairs a generation ago ....

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8 months

A baby glass of Waiheke Island Chardonnay? No, I’m afraid this is just as bad as it looks. I’m with the bad boys of Goldie on Waiheke: those are ‘dirty’ martinis. You can tell they’re not our first. As far as I can remember (which isn’t far) they weren’t our last either

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1 year

I know it’s not the big New Zealand tasting till tomorrow but my thirst wouldn’t wait so I got out some of my favourite Marlborough Sauvignon Blancs to get me in the mood. These 2022s are looking pretty tasty- crisp, fresh, and some of them with intriguing complexity esp. Awatere

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5 years

Bordeaux during the heatwave. 41C in the Médoc. And still I am prepared to taste wine. What dedication! Don’t laugh - young Bordeaux isn’t easy when the air around you is like warm soup, but the best still shine. The high alcohols and quick evolution of some 2015s is evident but-

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4 years

Just to remind everybody - tomorrow, Tuesday, is the WineGB Awards ceremony. And you can all come. It’s virtual, but Susie, Rebecca and I will be strutting our stuff tomorrow. There’s a link up on the WineGB website. Come and join us with a bottle open and impatient in your hand

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3 years

In the park. No sound but one- the cold crows caw on the raw brow of the old oaks. The dark sky heaps up from all sides, grey and laden. The snow moves from casual flakes to earnest flurries that stick to my face. A true country winter day in the heart of London. Crumpets for tea

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@ozclarke

8 months

Climate change, or climate chaos? Learn more in my new book Oz Clarke's Story of Wine which is out now!

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@ozclarke

3 years

Here’s the serious bit. “You can pre-order my book Oz Clarke On Wine and use a promo code OZCLARKE to get £5 off”. And now you can watch the video…

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Oz Clarke

@ozclarke

4 years

And for the next in my New York wines series I take you @foxrunvineyards , the first vineyard at which I ever tasted wines from the Finger Lakes. Come with me to taste their delicious Riesling 2017. @RandRDrinkers @NYWineGrapeFdn

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Oz Clarke

@ozclarke

4 years

Ruth, I can’t let your nice old darling go to its maker tonight all by itself. The elder sibling will join you for a possibly brief but tasty swan song....

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