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The Giant Peach

Our blog about all things peachy


Dry White January

If you’re thinking this isn’t the year to go cold turkey in January, why not raise your spirits instead by trying something different from your usual dry white? All good wines have stories. Each one is a place and a time, sunshine and rain, an idea and a dream, bottled. Let me tell you three … Continued

Which Vintage Champagnes Are Worth The Money?

Vintage champagne isn’t my everyday tipple. On very high days, when something in the business has gone staggeringly well, we open a bottle of Krug. It’s our “taking time to smell the roses” moment. But at £125 a bottle for the multi-vintage blend Grande Cuvée and nearly £200 for the 2000 Vintage, is it worth … Continued

Sustainable Wines on Our List – Winter 2022/23

In the twenty years Jo Eames has chosen wines for our pubs global warming has shown itself clearly in the world’s vineyards. Sustainable wine-making is a key factor alongside sheer deliciousness & good value in her choices. Happily, many of our favourite producers follow organic, biodynamic and other recognised sustainable practices, now marked with a butterfly … Continued

Wine-flation: The Price of Britain’s Changing Taste

Farewell to welsh rarebit: our changing taste Looking at some old London restaurant menus we were given recently made me realise that if time travel were possible I’d not be spinning the dial back fifty years. Back then, starters really were confined to Orange Juice, Half a Grapefruit or Egg Mayonnaise, even at the finest … Continued

Americano & Filter – Style over Substance?

Coffee is a fashion victim. Time was, you wanted a cup of coffee in a restaurant or good food pub, you ordered a coffee. It came, fresh from the filter if you were lucky (stewed on a diabolical hot-plate if you weren’t). You added milk and sugar to taste and drank it. Then came the … Continued

The Rise & Rise of The Flat White

My name is Jo. And I am an addict. After nearly thirty years on the wagon I have fallen into the clutches of a dangerous new legal high – the Flat White. Its origins are hotly disputed. Did it first appear in Aukland or Melbourne? Maybe the Cricket World Cup should be burned and its … Continued

A Taste Of Piemonte’s Great Wines

The second week in October isn’t the perfect time to drop in on a winery. Well it is and it isn’t.  As a veteran of many visits to silent, echoing cathedrals of stainless steel, it’s exciting to be there as trailers filled with grapes rumble into the yard and even sneak a few berries before … Continued