WIlding Oxford opened to the public fully on 26th May. After a year of lockdowns, home cooking, and occasional (let's be real, regular) takeaways, I'm back INSIDE an actual restaurant! My first indoor dining experience after restrictions lifting was a press launch for Wilding Oxford. I know, awful job. If you've read our preview, you'll know Wilding is a wine … [Read more...]
Wilding Oxford: the need-to-know on the exciting new wine restaurant
The old Cafe Rouge building on Little Clarendon Street has gone wild, with a takeover by new wine restaurant, Wilding! We caught up with General Manager, Leigh (who you may remember from Vine Oxford), to get the lowdown. The People Wilding - due to open on Little Clarendon Street later this month - certainly has us excited. The restaurant, wine bar and wine shop is … [Read more...]
Virtual wine tasting fun and frolics with The Oxford Wine Company
Like all of us, I haven’t had much to look forward to on Friday nights over the last year. So I was really excited to have a reason to dress up recently, for a virtual wine tasting with The Oxford Wine Company. It turned out no on-screen audience participation was required - phew! But regardless, dressing up like I was actually out at a wine bar for an evening did get into … [Read more...]
Is Natural Wine Organic?
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...]