The Friday 5 #147
The wine world’s best kept secret, the best ever strawberry ice cream and a dish I’d cross London for
When, I wonder, did you last buy a sweet wine?
In the run-up to Christmas, most probably which is when most people apparently buy them which means supermarket struggle to sell them at this time of year. That is good news for us as they’re an absolute bargain. The six. below are absolute steals.
Also reports on what I made - or rather bought - to celebrate my daughter’s birthday last weekend. (Not a big one which justified my buying in a cake but I was rather impressed.)
Also a cracking burrito and the world’s best strawberry ice cream. Plus a lovely fish restaurant in a leafy London neighbourhood …
Those of you who are on instagram might also have noticed I’ve popped up with an additional account fibeckett_winematcher.
I’ve felt for a while that my food_writer account is or was a bit misleading since for the last decade or so I have been mainly writing about wine. And I wanted to draw people’s attention to my other regular gig matchingfoodandwine.com which I’ve been adding to for the past 19 years and still remains a go-to for many food and wine lovers.
As you may have spotted if you’ve used it, I’ve put the key ‘Top Pairings’ section behind a paywall, partly to cover my costs, partly to stop AI ripping me off* but you can access it for a modest fee. £6 will buy you 10 credits (1 credit per article) and paid ETDT subscribers get a 50% discount on annual subs. I’ve popped the code below.
*I feel my new mantra should be ‘wine pairings from a human not a bot’!
Anyway onto sweet wines…