One of my New Year’s resolutions has been to buy wine from different sources. In the same way that I love the diversity of what the wine world has to offer, I enjoy trying out new vendors, be they bricks and mortar shops or online merchants. Normal women, according to my mother, buy shoes instead.Continue reading “On Wine And Dating”
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On Irouléguy mon amour
A word of warning: this is – mostly – about a novel written in French and thus may be irrelevant to some readers. If you speak or read French though, march on! Wine and fiction make for uneasy bedfellows. Despite the positive feedback I have received on my own novel, Tasting Notes, I am awareContinue reading “On Irouléguy mon amour”
On Reviews And Scores
In the last few days I was asked for my opinion on the walking shoes I had bought the week before, and on the book I’d just finished reading. Sainsbury’s wondered how they did when delivering my food shop and Virgin media was anxious to know how happy I was with their “self-help” service. LastContinue reading “On Reviews And Scores”
On Podcasts – Society and Culture and Stories 2/3
Continuing with Society and Culture, This American Life is almost invariably good. Each weekly episode focuses on one – often topical – theme, developed over several unrelated stories. This year so far, I have particularly enjoyed episode 729: Making the Cut which explains, among other things, how Covid has altered dating in NYC and madeContinue reading “On Podcasts – Society and Culture and Stories 2/3”
On Sharing Your Writing
‘What pages are the sex scenes on, so that I don’t waste any time?’ Oz Clarke asked me. I’d sent him my novel, Tasting Notes, and explained, in person first, and then in an email, how much it would mean to me if he read it. That answer would have upset me, coming from anybodyContinue reading “On Sharing Your Writing”
On Podcasts – Society and Culture 1/3
Yesterday I went on a walk with Ruby Wax and Louis Theroux. The day before that, I’d used my daily outing to try and understand the intricacies of an unsolved murder somewhere in America. And last week, a collection of world-famous winemakers accompanied me to Bushy Park and Richmond Bridge. I am neither delusional norContinue reading “On Podcasts – Society and Culture 1/3”
From PAYE to Freelance
Before Christmas I gave a remote talk about going from PAYE to freelance to fifty clients of an outplacement company. Considering the number of calls I’ve had in the last six months from friends in the wine business thinking about going freelance, or being forced to, it may be useful to share what I haveContinue reading “From PAYE to Freelance”
On Wine Bitch
A bunch of anonymous newsletters targeting the wine Twitter bubble started circulating anonymously during lockdown. The content was meant to be satirical. Some of it was amusing, some statements about the new wave of influencers – aspiring to the lifestyle [they] know [they] deserve – were true but most of it was like a carContinue reading “On Wine Bitch”
On Wine Influencers
In the beginning there was writing and television. Television was Oz Clarke and Jilly Goolden. Love it or hate it, and interestingly enough Jilly was the one who came up for most of the criticism of the imaginative language they used, this show did a hell of a lot to widen the appeal of wineContinue reading “On Wine Influencers”
On Wine Buyers
Serialising Tasting Notes, the novel I wrote twelve years ago, is bringing back memories of my years as a wine saleswoman and the many buyers I sold to. ‘Rachel sounds awful,’ my eldest daughter said yesterday. ‘Read on,’ I said. ‘She’s not.’ ‘Rachel’, Tasting Notes’ fictional supermarket wine buyer, is an amalgam of two buyersContinue reading “On Wine Buyers”
Anne Burchett Writes 