Our guest writer today is Rachel Everett, Co-Founder at L'altreVi Limited and all-round oenophile. L'altre Vi is an Oxfordshire-based mother and son wine import business, with a love for Catalan wine. When Rachel isn't delivering delicious wines, she can be found messing about in weedy organic vineyards - like in the image below. “Organic wine”, “natural wine”, “biodynamic … [Read more...]
Review: Jericho Grill
It’s quite possible that, even if you live in Oxford and know your way around the restaurant scene, you’ve not heard about Jericho Grill. I say that because I live in Oxford and very much know my way around the restaurant scene and hadn’t heard about this place until the chance for a review came up. If, on hearing about the restaurant, you were to google it, you’d see that the … [Read more...]
Review: The Rabbit Hole
Appropriately for a bar named after a mysterious entrance to a magical land, The Rabbit Hole is tucked behind an enticing yellow door, hidden away down one of North Oxford's more unassuming and picturesque streets, and appeared as if by magic. Okay, maybe it wasn't magical, but if there was any big fanfare about this little independent neighbourhood bar's opening then it … [Read more...]
Introducing: L’altre Vi – Organic and Natural Wines from Catalonia
My son Rubén and I have been specialist importers since 2016, when we set up L’altre Vi, or “the other wine”. We have roots in the Penedès region and wanted to share the beautiful wines we knew so well, and pass on our enthusiasm for a little corner of the world which isn’t so well known in the UK. There’s nothing stuffy about wine in Catalonia and we don’t think it matters … [Read more...]
Review: Fizz Tasting at Vine Oxford
Vine has been around the Cowley Road for a couple of years now, serving up some lovely wines by the glass and very good vegetarian (and non vegetarian) brunches. While I’d been in for a glass of wine now and again, I’d never tried one of their wine tastings before. I’d been to other tastings in Oxford and enjoyed them, but felt that they were a little stuffy, taking themselves … [Read more...]