Today is an annual event that forms one of the highlights of the vinous calendar: the Good Bishop Gill’s gathering of his clergy, an intimate party of friends from the trade, to pray and lunch downstairs in the cloisters of The Arches. The only rule is that you write off the rest of the day [...]
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Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain…and temperatures that belong to Russian tundra. Despite the endless soul-destroying inclemency, this morning I catch the early and thereby extortionately-priced train into the über-cool East End of London for the first of today’s Sassicaia verticals. As usual I arrive on time, only to find that attendees, mostly sommeliers, saunter in over the next 45 minutes. [...]
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