The woman who helped turn the nation on to wine in the 1980s now runs tasting courses at her home. Plus three more UK wine experiencesThe wine critic Jilly Goolden lives with her husband,dogs, horses, or peacocks and former battery hens (their three children are all grown up) down a lane of rhododendrons in the Ashdown Forest in Sussex. Here she provides peaceful accommodation for two in a converted 1920s pump house a bit further down the lane,and regularly invites up to 14 people to turn up on her Arts and Crafts doorstep for an afternoon of non-end drinking at her Wine Room.“fill a sniff,” she says, or putting her nose into a glass of chenin blanc and going quiet. “Sort of honey honeydew melon… a miniature smell of cream… it reminds you of lying in bed upstairs and having a tiny waft of someone marvellous having made you breakfast downstairs. You acquire that smell of toast and butter… mmm.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com