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I got a fridge magnet for Christmas 1999. It has the motto "Life is too short to drink bad wine".
Amen.
Here you will find:
Consume alcohol in moderation. For more information about alcohol and health, visit www.drinkaware.co.uk
Miscellaneous notes | Tasting
notes from wines drunk at home, in restaurants etc. (regularly
updated). This page is now split over several pages to improve the speed it loads in your browser: |
3 May 2019 | Boschendal and other South African wines with DGB |
29 April 2019 | Some vegan and organic wines with North South Wines |
25 February 2019 | Quinta do Soalheiro: the many flavours of alvarinho |
25 February 2019 | Bouchard Finlayson of South Africa and their Galpin Peak and Hannibal wines |
19 September 2016 | Soul Tree - wine from India |
19 September 2016 | My first taste of Japanese koshu wines |
13 September 2016 | Celebrating 300 years of Chianti Classico with Castello di Albola |
22 June 2016 | An evening of Col d'Orcia wines with Count Francesco Marone Cinzano |
11 June 2016 | Some exceptional wines at the grand dinner of the wine-pages.com Gasgow Festival of Wine |
11 June 2016 | A quick tour round off-beat Italy with Zubair Mohamed of Raeburn Wines |
11 June 2016 | Riverby Estate: A Decade of Marlborough Riesling |
10 June 2016 | Wine-pages.com Glasgow Festival of Wine pre-dinner at Cail Bruich |
14 October 2015 | Sud de France Languedoc-Roussillon Annual Trade Tasting |
4 August 2015 | Decugnano dei Barbi tasting and dinner with Enzo Barbi |
15 October 2014 | Sud de France Languedoc-Roussillon Annual Trade Tasting |
24 February 2014 | Legendary Kopke Masterclass |
6 October 2011 | The wines of McHenry Hohnen, Margaret River, Australia |
8 June 2011 | The Pequeñas Chile Tasting: the Boutique Wineries of Chile |
30 May 2011 | D Byrne & Co of Clitheroe: Summer Wine Tasting |
21 February 2011 | SITT 2011: the Specialist Importers Trade Tasting |
1 December 2010 | The wines of Poggio Argentiera, Tuscany |
11 February 2010 | Grosser Ring Rheingau tasting at the German House, London, including the best half bottle of German 1938 pinot noir I've ever had |
1 January 2010 | Four wines from the Georgian Wine Society |
29 December 2009 | A leisurely post-Christmas lunch at the Ox Bar & Inn, Manchester, featuring something of a Gewürztraminer fest |
4 December 2009 | Wine dinner at Harts restaurant in Nottingham |
28 November 2009 | Some wines (mainly half bottles) with Thai food at Siam Thai Restaurant, King's Heath |
6 November 2009 | Semillon & Syrah - a wine dinner at Choice Bar & Restaurant, Manchester |
16 October 2009 | 1989 revisited: a selection of wines from 1989 drunk over a very fine dinner at Hambleton Hall, Rutland |
4 September 2009 | New Zealand Wine dinner in Manchester to welcome Mark Henderson |
5 June 2009 | Wines for a barbecue party |
14 May 2009 | A selection of Champagnes and other sparkling wines tasted at the London International Wine Fair |
13 May 2009 | A fun blind tasting evening at Rôtisserie Jules, London |
12 May 2009 | Kiwicru - wines made from kiwi fruit juice |
1 May 2009 | Beauty and the Beast: an evening of Riesling and Priorato at Anthony's at the Piazza in Leeds |
28 April 2009 | Jamie Goode's 50 Great Portuguese Wines 2009 |
7 March 2009 | Mullineux Family Wines, Swartland, South Africa |
7 March 2009 | Pinot
Noir from Oregon |
7 March 2009 | The wines of the northern Rhône domaine of Michel & Stéphane Ogier |
7 March 2009 | Notes from the wine-pages.com SuperBOWL 2009, on 7th March 2009 are available by following this link. |
7 March 2009 | Super Wines and Super Food at Braidwoods, Dalry |
24 January 2009 | A miscellaneous selection of Lebanese wines at Aladdin Restaurant, Withington, Manchester |
22 January 2009 | French Wine Growers in Manchester |
5 December 2008 | Fine wines at a Nottingham tasting and dinner |
21 November 2008 | A tasting of Bordeaux wines over dinner at the Market Restaurant, Manchester |
5 September 2008 | Wines for pan-Asian food |
15 August 2008 | An eclectic selection of South African wines over dinner |
13 June 2008 | Italian Wines over dinner in Nottingham |
11 June 2008 | The 2007 vintage in Germany: 140 wines from the Nahe, Mosel, Saar and Ruwer tasted at the London Grosser Ring tasting |
10 June 2008 | Dinner with the Fine Wine Experience: some noble old wines and cask samples of 2007 rieslings from Weingut Keller |
10 June 2008 | A vertical tasting of Château Batailley from 2005 to 1937 |
22 May 2008 | I get a pleasant surprise from Fall Creek Vineyards, Texas |
22 May 2008 | A selection of wines from Turkey |
21 May 2008 | A broad tasting of wines from Friuli made from the grape formerly known as tocai friulano |
21 May 2008 | I taste a small sample of Canadian Ice Ciders from Quebec |
21 May 2008 | The great sweet PX wines of Montilla Moriles in Spain |
21 May 2008 | Wines of Slovenia - I taste a selection from a couple of wineries |
21 May 2008 | Alexander Valley Vineyards, California |
21 May 2008 | The Wines of New York State (notes from a similar tasting in 2007 are here) |
20 May 2008 | The Wines of Tikveš Winery, Republic of Macedonia |
20 May 2008 | The Wines of Bou Argoub, Tunisia |
20 May 2008 | The Wines of Mikrosvin Mikulov, Czech Republic |
20 May 2008 | The Wines of Malta |
20 May 2008 | Fine Wines from Thailand? Monsoon Valley Wines |
20 May 2008 | A selection of grower champagnes |
4 April 2008 | 1998 Re-visited: wines from the 1998 vintage tasted at Bistro Mistral in Nottingham |
25 February 2008 | SITT: The Specialist Importers Trade Tastings, Manchester |
8 December 2007 | Lancaster Wine Fair |
14 December 2007 | A 'Wines for Winter' dinner in Nottingham |
23 November 2007 | A Burgundy tasting and dinner in Manchester |
20 October 2007 | Seven Decades of Wine: lunch at Simpson's restaurant in Birmingham |
19 October 2007 | Wines from a year ending in 7 to go with Thai food: a dinner at Siam Thai in King's Heath |
30 September 2007 | French Regional Wines Portfolio tasting |
15 June 2007 | A 'Wines for Summer' dinner in Nottingham |
9 June 2007 | Meerlust Rubicon Vertical Tasting: a tasting of most of the first 21 vintages of this iconic wine from South Africa |
5 June 2007 | Bodegas Ca N’Estella: a small tasting of their wines in Blackpool |
1 June 2007 | A remarkable tasting of the 1961 vintage in Bordeaux |
24 May 2007 | The Wines of Sevilen, Turkey |
24 May 2007 | Two High Street Brands: Mateus, a 1970s classic revisited and the new Three Vines range from Jacob's Creek |
24 May 2007 | The Wines of New York State |
23 May 2007 | Extremes of Chile: the Bío Bío and Elqui Valleys |
23 May 2007 | The Wines of Georgia (the country, not the US state. Oh go on, I'll include a couple from the US state too) |
23 May 2007 | A brief tasting of some Romanian wines - from Oenoterra Tohani and Caramele Halewood |
23 May 2007 | Vertical tasting of Rustenberg's John X Merriman, with the winemaker, Adi Badenhorst |
22-24 May 2007 | Friuli Venezia Giulia: Land of Great White Wines: two seminars, one tasting Tocai Friulano, the second tasting Pinot Grigio and Ramandolo |
22 May 2007 | Portugal's G7 group: a tasting at the Portuguese Ambassador's residence, London |
22 May 2007 | Moldovan Wine Tasting, London |
22 May 2007 | The Wines of Sandra Tavares |
22 May 2007 | Domaine Horcher, Alsace |
22 May 2007 | Broadbent Wines: a selection of ports and madeiras, plus two Chinese wines |
22 May 2007 | A Cognac and Armagnac Masterclass |
30 March 2007 | A Northern Rhône dinner in Manchester |
19 March 2007 | The New Face of Hungary |
27 February 2007 | The wines of Trentino: around 30 of the top producers present their wines at a London tasting |
21 February 2007 | California's Lodi region: the wines of Berghold and Old Lockeford |
20 February 2007 | Château Montelena, Napa Valley, California |
20 February 2007 | A miscellany of Napa Valley wines tasted at The Vintner's Collective, Napa, Napa Valley, California |
19 February 2007 | Ridge's Lytton Springs Winery |
19 February 2007 | The wines of Gary Farrell in California's Russian River Valley |
18 February 2007 | A taste of Alsace in California: Navarro Vineyards in the Anderson Valley |
17 February 2007 | Chateau Christina: the wines of Joyce Vineyards |
16 February 2007 | The wines of Morgan, Salinas, California |
16 February 2007 | Marilyn Remark Wines, Salinas, California |
16 February 2007 | Biodynamics on California's central coast: the wines of Beckmen Vineyards |
15 February 2007 | Epiphany Cellars, Los Olivos, Santa Barbara County, California |
15 February 2007 | Kings of the wild frontier: the wines of Fess Parker, Central Coast, California |
15 February 2007 | The wines of Melville in Santa Barbara wine country |
14 February 2007 | Mr Vee-on-yea: the wines of the Garretson Wine Company, Paso Robles, California |
13 February 2007 | An exciting romp through the multifarious wines of Tobin James with Claire and Lance Silver |
13 February 2007 | The wines of Linne Calodo, Paso Robles, California |
13 February 2007 | The wines of Justin, Paso Robles, California |
13 February 2007 | California's answer to Beaucastel: Tablas Creek Vineyard, Paso Robles |
11 February 2007 | Soquel Vineyards, Santa Cruz, California |
24 November 2006 | A pre-Christmas wine dinner that saw some remarkable bottles, including my first Domaine de la Romanée Conti (1959 Grands Echézeaux, no less!) |
22 October 2006 | A Vintage Port Archaeology session: a tasting of mystery ports possibly dating back to 1851 |
2 October 2006 | The Wines of Portugal Tasting, Leeds |
2 October 2006 | Fields, Morris & Verdin tasting |
2 October 2006 | Moreno Wines tasting |
25 September 2006 | The 2006 PIG tasting - a selection of wines from Portugal, Italy and Greece imported by Raymond Reynolds, Winetraders (UK) and Eclectic Wines respectively. |
14 September 2006 | Wines of Chile: 115 Chilean wines tasted and rated, including my first wines of the 2006 vintage. |
28 July 2006 | The third annual Prothero blind tasting challenge |
19 July 2006 | Pinots of the World: a wine tasting and dinner at Restaurant Rococo, Glasgow |
15 July 2006 | A "vintage pairs" tasting (different wines, each wine in two different vintages) |
7 July 2006 | A vertical tasting of Australian icon, Penfolds Grange |
7 July 2006 | The Super Whites of Friuli, a tasting and workshop organised by Slowfood |
9 June 2006 | An International Wine Challenge: South Africa vs the Languedoc |
18 May 2006 | The Wines of Sevilen, Turkey |
17 May 2006 | Champagne and French Sparkling Wines from Antech, Ariston, Aspasie and Legras & Haas |
17 May 2006 | Krone: The sparkling wines of Twee Jonge Gezellen |
17 May 2006 | The Wines of Mexico: LA Cetto (and a few older notes on Santo Tomas wines) |
17 May 2006 | Madeira: Ancient & Modern |
17 May 2006 | "Awesome Aromatics" - a seminar on New Zealand wines from the aromatic varieties riesling, pinot gris and gewurztraminer |
16 May 2006 | Argentina: More than Malbec - a seminar with José Zuccardi |
16 May 2006 | Greece: a selection of Greek (mainly white) wines tasted |
16 May 2006 | Wines of Slovenia: Jeruzalem Ormoz |
16 May 2006 | Wines of Peru: Tacama |
16 May 2006 | Wines of Germany: The Riesling Room 2006 |
16 May 2006 | Rare German Treasures - several bottles from the much lauded 1921 vintage, one from 1911 and my first 19th Century wine from the great 1893 vintage |
11 May 2006 | Food and wine notes from a dinner in Manchester to celebrate Establishment Restaurant's second birthday |
14 March 2006 | Wines of Portugal Annual Tasting |
27 February 2006 | The Specialist Importers Trade Tastings, Manchester |
24 February 2006 | Antinori's Super-Tuscan Tignanello: a Vertical Tasting and Dinner in Manchester |
27 January 2006 | Southern Rhônes and Southern French wines Dinner in Manchester |
19 January 2006 | Hallgarten Wines portfolio tasting |
16 January 2006 | Winebarn tasting: some high quality, more unusual German wines that aren't riesling |
7 January 2006 | Northern Rhône tasting |
26 November 2005 | Château Cheval Blanc with Pierre Lurton |
25 November 2005 | Château de Beaucastel with Thomas Perrin |
26-27 November 2005 | The Decanter Fine Wine Encounter, Landmark Hotel, Marylebone. Tasting Notes from Decanter Magazine's annual mega tasting event. |
29 October 2005 | Notes from the wine-pages.com SuperBOWL 2005, on 29th October 2005 are available by following this link. |
29 October 2005 | The Wines of Josko Gravner (Friuli, Italy) |
29 October 2005 | The Prosecco Wines of Bisol |
28 October 2005 | A meal with very fine wines at the Restaurant Rococo in Glasgow. |
24-25 October 2005 | Speed tasting in Bordeaux |
12 October 2005 | An evening of fine wine at the Restaurant Chardon d'Or, Glasgow |
17 September 2005 | An evening of food and wine with wine-loving friends in Coniston |
14 September 2005 | A tasting and lunch with the Coonawarra Vignerons Association |
12 September 2005 | Alliance Wines - a tasting through the portfolio of this interesting Scottish company's wines. |
12 September 2005 | Wines of Roussillon: the 2005 St Bacchus winners tasted and assessed |
12 September 2005 | The vins doux naturels of Roussillon |
20 & 27 July 2005 | My wine tasting for the Lancaster University Summer Programme 2005 |
10 June 2005 | French Regional Wines tasting at Lancaster Town Hall |
31 May 2005 | Peter Howland Wines Dinner, Establishment Restaurant, Manchester |
23rd May 2005 | Notes from a Wine Society tasting of clarets are available by following this link. |
19th May 2005 | A tutored tasting of Royal Tokaji Company wines; plus other Hungarian and Tokaji notes. |
17-19 May 2005 | The London International Wine and Spirits Fair |
Wines for spicy foods: The Wines of Rousillon | |
The International Riesling Review | |
Wines from China: Grace Vineyard's Tasya | |
Wines from India: Grover Vineyards, Bangalore | |
Sparkling wines from Brazil | |
The wines of Josef Friederich, Zell, Mosel | |
Wines of Germany: Sommeliers' Choice | |
Miscellaneous Portuguese reds | |
Vinho Verde: the wines of Portugal's Costa Verde | |
Champagne Taittinger | |
Champagne Charles Heidsieck | |
Sparkling wines from Michigan, USA: the wines of L.Mawby | |
New England Wines from Massachussetts: Westport Rivers Winery | |
Small Growers in Alsace: Scharsch; Fleith; Schoenheitz; Neumeyer; Haag | |
A blind tasting of United Wineries/Haciendas de Espana wines pitted against their competitors | |
A miscellany of Austrian wines | |
7 May 2005 | The annual dinner of the Preston Wine Club starring 1964 Rioja Alta and Diebolt-Vallois 1985. |
11 March 2005 | A champagne tasting and dinner at Alba Restaurant in the City of London |
1 March 2005 | A wine dinner, organised and hosted by Ray Abercromby at the Establishment Restaurant, Manchester |
24 November 2004 | Vertical tastings led by Ray Abercromby of Ch. Maucaillou, Ch. Musar, and Jaboulet's Thalabert |
20-21 November 2004 | The Decanter Fine Wine Encounter, Landmark Hotel, Marylebone. Tasting Notes from Decanter Magazine's annual mega tasting event. Where else do you get Cockburn's 1970 and Cockburn's 1955 vintage port at a public walkround tasting? |
21 November 2004 | Stars of Italy: a tutored tasting led by David Gleave MW |
21 November 2004 | A masterclass on Barossa Shiraz with Bob Mclean of St Hallett (and now McLean's Farm) fame |
20 November 2004 | A vertical tasting of Chateau D'Yquem with Decanter magazine |
19 November 2004 | Neal Martin's Bordeaux Olympics |
23 October 2004 | Notes from the wine-pages.com SuperBOWL 2004, on 23rd October 2004 are available by following this link. |
22 October 2004 | An off-line at the Restaurant Rococo in Glasgow, including 1949 Loires and a 61 Ducru Beaucaillou. |
October 2004 | A selection of wines from french-regional-wines-co.uk |
4 October 2004 | Laurent-Perrier champagnes and dinner, hosted by the Vicomte de la Giraudière, at the Connaught Hotel, London. |
3 September 2004 | A blind tasting challenge of 24 wines costing around £20 including seventeen cabernet sauvignon based wines from around the world and Ch. Mouton Rothschild 1994. |
28 August 2004 | A brace of grouse and a remarkable survivor |
July/August 2004 | Summer Programme wine tasting |
French & Logan | Some excellent rieslings from Glasgow-based riesling specialist French and Logan. |
29 November 2003 | The annual dinner of the Preston Wine Club, featuring some amazing old claret back to 1952, and an excellent Offley 1963 port. |
22-23 November 2003 | The Decanter Fine Wine Encounter, Landmark Hotel, Marylebone. Tasting Notes from Decanter Magazine's annual mega tasting event. Overall, a very high standard this year, with some truly exceptional wines. |
27 October 2003 | A fabulous tasting of ports from Quinta do Noval, including 4 vintages of the famous Nacional, and the 1955. |
23 October 2003 | Lancashire Life Newcomer Restaurant of the Year celebration lunch |
10 October 2003 | Notes from the wine-pages.com SuperBOWL 2003, on 10th October 2003 are available by following this link. |
9 October 2003 | An off-line at the Ubiquitous Chip in Glasgow |
Liverpool Offlines | 12 August 2003; 3rd September 2003; 13 February 2004; 22nd August 2004 |
August 2003 | This week I have been mainly drinking Pinot Gris |
29 July and 5 August 2003 | Summer Programme wine tasting - notes available by following this link. |
28 May 2003 | Vega Sicilia: Myth and Reality. Andrew Stevenson visits Vega Sicilia and experiences a unique (unico, indeed!) vertical tasting of six decades of Vega Sicilia. |
27 May - 3 June 2003 | Duero
to Douro: a wine-filled journey along the Duero to the Portuguese
border where it becomes the
Douro, and then along the Douro to the sea. Includes tastings
at:
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19 October 2002 | Oyster Feast with various wines from Lay & Wheeler - notes available by following this link. |
18 October 2002 | Alsace Dinner at Lay & Wheeler in Colchester: the wines of Albert Mann and Meyer-Fonné - notes available by following this link. |
5th October 2002 | Notes from the wine-pages.com SuperBOWL 2002, on 5th October 2002 are available by following this link. |
(September 2002) | Tasting notes of various ports and a couple of vinhos verdes (September 2002) are available by following this link. |
22 February 2002 | An off-line at Peter's Cellars in Edinburgh |
New Year 2001/02 | Austrian wines from Schloss Gobelsburg, Bründlmayer , Willi Opitz, Weingut Christ |
19th May 2001 | Notes from a tasting of German Rieslings organised by Decanter magazine and held on 19th May 2001 are available by following this link. |
19th May 2001 | Decanter Magazine's Rising Stars Fine Wine Encounter |
15th May 2001 | Notes from a Wine Society tasting of Penfolds wines, held on 15th May 2001 are available by following this link. |
Oddbins 1995 | A grand tasting of nearly 100 wines from Oddbins range in 1995. |
31st December 1999 | On
the evening of 31st December 1999, I held a small wine-tasting,
both as a bit of fun and in order to choose a couple of the wines to go
with the New Year's Eve Dinner. I am pleased to record that those wines
which were not already drunk up before midnight, all proved to be Y2K
compliant. To keep things simple, we stuck to just one grape: the Riesling, and the tasting went something like this (follow the link for the gory details). In case you were wondering, the overall "winner" was a 1983 Erdener Treppchen Riesling Spätlese from Dr Loosen. |
1st October 1998 | The wines of Marcel Deiss, Alsace |
30th September 1998 | The wines of Rolly Gassmann in Rohrschwihr, Alsace |
16-17 May 1992 | Oddbins Wine Fair 1992 |
14-16 May 1992 | Spanish Wine tastings at Selfridges |
4 April 1990 | Sunday Times Wine Club Trafalgar House Tasting |
March 1989 | Sunday Times Wine Club: Vintage Festival |
3 November 1988 | Sunday Times Wine Club: Chardonnay & Wines for Christmas |
25-26 March 1988 | Sunday Times Wine Club: Vintage Festival |
Coming soon!
Alsace and Mosel - wines from Rolly Gassmann, Hugel, Paul Blanck, Marcel Deiss, Kuentz Bas, von Hövel, Max Ferd. Richter, Reinhold Haart and Dr Loosen
Text of reviews, tasting notes and photographs (unless otherwise attributed) is © Copyright Andrew Stevenson, 1983-2009. Please contact me before reproducing or quoting (permission will normally be granted).
There are numerous vintage charts available, but Jordan & Jordan have compiled the only one I've ever seen that goes back to 121 B.C. !! Here's the link.
More useful is the vintage chart on the excellent website of long-established London merchant, Berry Brothers & Rudd.
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More are in the process of being added
London restaurants of the past
I recently came across a web page, apparently written in the mid 1980s,
listing a selection of "upscale restaurants" in London. This
prompted some reminiscences from me. Click
here to read on.
There are thousands of wine-related sites on the internet, and I'm certainly not going to try to compete here.
Here is a list of other sites that I find myself looking at regularly:
Tom Cannavan's Wine-Pages (a UK-based site, with lots of tasting notes, a lively forum and lots more. Well worth a visit!)
The Wine Doctor (Chris Kissack's excellent site)
The Wine Anorak (Jamie Goode's equally excellent site)
The Fine Wine Experience (Linden Wilkie's company puts on some very prestigious tastings in London, often very deep vertical tastings with wines going back over two centuries)
The Bailey Brothers' Fine Wine Diary
The Mosel-Saar-Ruwer Wein e.V. (in German: an interesting site, though it's a little difficult to get the information you're looking for sometimes. A few good recipes too!)
The World of Fine Wine magazine (a remarkable quarterly publication for which the term magazine is a bit demeaning - highly recommended for serious wine-lovers)
English Wine Producers English wine seems to get better every year, and vineyards are being planted/coming into production across the country, even as far north as Lancashire and Yorkshire. I like English wine, I want to buy English wine, I want to promote English wine - but, boy!, do the English vineyards make it hard work! Welsh wines are also available, but I've not discovered a generic website for them.
Arblaster & Clarke (excellent wine tours - see my hols in Austria and Portugal)
Epicurious.com contains the recipe archives of the American magazines Gourmet and Bon Appetit, though unfortunately the site is now filled with adverts.
This link should take you to what is probably the most sumptuous food magazine currently published, the Thuriès magazine, a magazine which aims itself "aux professionnels des Métiers de Bouche et aux amateurs qui désirent approfondir leurs connaissances en art culinaire et saisir toutes les tendances de la gastronomie française." (You can only really say that in French!)
If you find yourself recognising rather a lot of the dishes people cook on Masterchef, then the Thuriès magazine is for you!
If you're French isn't up to it (it's remarkably easy actually) then Caterer & Hotelkeeper (the trade magazine for the hospitality industry) is actually one of the best ways to get recipes from the top chefs and new ideas. This is the trade magazine, so there is a lot in it that won't interest a general reader. But there is a recipe archive, which you can access by following this link. If you want to find out how little cooking goes on in your local pub, café etc, pick up a copy of Caterer and read the adverts for various food products: the mind boggles at just what kitchens can buy pre-prepared or ready made.
And follow this link for some recipes that I've made my own.
If you need some cheese, I've found this lot very efficient as well as selling cheese in tip-top condition: The Cheese Society But in the North of England, Carron Lodge are great for the trade and for an excellent cheesemonger, complete with live piano accompaniment, Churchmouse Cheeses in Kirkby Lonsdale is hard to beat (well, unbeatable, as I know of no other cheesemonger with a resident pianist!). In Cartmel, Martin Gott runs the excellent Cartmel Cheeses and in Clitheroe there is the very naffly named, but excellent Cheesie Tchaikovsky. Both the latter two have climate control to keep cheeses in tiptop condition, and does away with much of the need for clingfilm. Also excellent is the rather wonderful Courtyard Dairy near Settle in Yorkshire.
Random Tasting notes on Cheese: for miscellaneous (and now largely rather old) notes on cheeses tasted and or eaten click here
andrew [at] andrewstevenson.com
Last updated: 3 October 2016