Setting The Agenda

Spring is coming and our fields and gardens have certainly been watered in readiness…! Since this is my first blog post of the year, it seems appropriate to set the agenda with some cultural notes.

Firstly theatre: those of you who have been paying attention might have picked up on our involvement with a certain new theatre alongside the Thames at Tower Bridge. I urge you: do go to the Theatre! You cannot beat the real thing, particularly when the production comes right out amongst you, enabled by the amazing adaptable design of the auditorium. Watch Chelsea? How much..?! If you like the rough and tumble of the match then instead be a groundling, be enthused, drink wine!

And then to literature, here are two books that will be your starter pack to wine. Firstly the “best seller” Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker. At times the NYC voice grates and those of us who know, know that it is not always quite correct (but hey, there’s the screenplay to think of). Then to keep it simple, Jancis Robinson’s “The 24 Hour Wine Expert” at £4.99. Just promise me that you’ll always spend more on a bottle!

That’ll set you up for the year ahead, don't let the bastards grind you down! And speaking of those barstards, I’m planning my overdue revenge for the killing of Youngs the Brewery... and I’ve been drinking English Wines (“British" wines are not British, but that’s a story for another day!)

Trevor's views and adventures

Keykegs and Hugh the Campaigner, jobs for the (Brexit) boys and some light relief in Paris and elsewhere.

I’m waiting for someone to tell me that keykegs are not generally single use plastic items here in the UK, anybody? Meanwhile I have taken the liberty of attaching an opinion piece that Root & Bone magazine asked me to write.

Change - the bad and the good

Let’s get straight to it: keykegs are becoming popular and people ask why we do not have them. Don’t we hold eco values? But those values are the reason we don’t have them: recycling. Key kegs, for those who do not know, are plastic barrels for wine or beer on draft. Salesmen of product packaged in this way are somewhat, well, diffident on the subject as they push their product. So here are the facts: they are only recyclable through one company currently in the UK, who take payment to take them away, and who undertake this as a "marketing exercise”...

Travel Looms

I’ve learnt to curtail my luddish tendencies - many will know that I’ve sometimes refused to regard the fact that St. JOHN really is a 'brand'. But now we have our wines carrying our own label, so fair enough! And happy we are to produce these. However when I visited Lisbon a while back and was shown around the new Time Out Market I was not impressed.

THE WINERY

This is St. JOHN’s winery, Boulevard Napoleon, in the Languedoc village of La Livinière.

In a twist of perfect porcine serendipity, the building is an old pig sty, making Trevor’s local nickname (The Pig) particularly apt – as you can imagine, he spends rather a lot of time here.

Words by Mina Holland, photographs by Elena Heatherwick

Setting The Agenda

Other News

Trevor's views and adventures

Change - the bad and the good

Travel Looms

THE WINERY

Stay Updated

Follow Us

Contact