The Brewhouse and Kitchen recently opened following a major refurbishment – and much fanfare. Previously known as The White Horse Pub, I was intrigued as to whether the beer chain could live up to the high standards set by its previous owners when it came to a good Sunday roast. Roast.
One of the great joys of wine is that there is always another wine, grape or region to discover, so here we are in 2019 and I wonder what the year will hold for us.
I am never sure at the start of a new year whether you should be looking backward or forward. The end of December saw numerous best-of lists and I have been thinking about my wine adventures over the past 12 months.
I’m never sure about New Year’s Eve. In some ways I’ve always thought it’s a shame it comes so close after the excesses of Christmas and that it would be nice to have a bit more of a break between the two.
CHRISTMAS is one of the few times in the year where it is socially acceptable to eat unnatural amounts of food, filling your stomach to the brim on an almost daily basis.
There are many Christmas traditions – from the turkey to the tree, but the arrival of dessert wines and port at the dinner table is one of my favourites.
As with white wines, Christmas is not the time to bring out your best bottles of red. Generally speaking crowd-pleasing reds with plenty of fruit are what’s required, wines that can stand up to all those flavours on what is usually a pretty packed Christmas dinner plate.
In a world of gastro pubs and copy-and-paste eateries, the King’s Arms Emsworth offers a comforting helping of the pubs we used to know. And I mean that in a positive way.
