About: The Graped Crusader

The Graped Crusader is back with the latest installment of his blog. This time he’s been sampling wines from the wine list at Browns Bar and Brasserie… I popped into Browns Bar and Brasserie earlier in the week to have a look around and, more importantly, to sample a few of their wines. For those…

Selfridges has recently introduced a variety of new wines to its range in-store so we asked The Graped Crusader to give us his must-trusted opinion on a few… Chapel Down – Bacchus 2010 (England) – £12.99 English wines are on a real roll at the moment, winning awards left right and centre and gaining recommendations…

The opening of Browns not only provides Bullring with an excellent new restaurant, but also a great place to sample some very good wines. I recently visited the Browns restaurant in Cardiff and was impressed with the modern decor, good food and interesting wine list. I’ve been given a sneak preview of the anticipated wine…

The Graped Crusader is back with the latest installment of his blog and this month he attended an Italian wine master class where Dawn Davies, Head Sommelier at Selfridges, took him through some of the range of Italian wines on offer in the store. I’ve always liked Italian wines due to Italy being a regular…

So here we have the second installment of the year from The Graped Crusader.  Here he tells us all about the wines we should be tantalising our tastebuds with this spring. Spring is on the horizon (although apologies if when you come to read this the temperature has plummeted to minus figures again). As a…