Excellent Tannat Colin Bocking - will get you a bottle. Crunchy, supple, smokey and won’t stain your lips!

A fine guest ale on tap in Mersea #whitehartinn from the maestros Crouch Vale Brewery

Coming soon….

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Norther lights over Mersea - WOW

Our 2nd wine dinner of the year - a FEAST.

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Making plans for the long weekend? Here's our guide to seaside hotels near London where the food is great hot-dinners.com/Features/Hot-D…

April showers, January Mercury

In local pub and punter just asked for a sparkling pink Zinfandel.

The barman apologised, they didn’t have any. Without demure, he offered a bottle of Billecart-Salmon Brut Rosé!

It was declined……

Friday night wine, been a while. Pinot style Garnacha from Sierra de Gredos - bright aromatics, light on its feet but good depth, elegant, fine and long.

Suffolk grown Pinot Noir from a plot where John Constable painted from. The juice will soon be on our list.

⁦Neal Martin⁩ ditches the sneakers for a sparkly pair of ruby slippers. ‘There’s no place like home’. Hilarious opening. Accurate assessment of where ⁦Danbury Ridge Wine Estate⁩ is right now and where it’s headed in the future.

My latest column for Tim Atkin is out: why British #wine drinkers are suffering a price shock - and how the Government wants to make it worse timatkin.com/wines-next-pri…

The only way is Essex where Mersea could be the Hamptons…….

The weekend trip that made me proud to be 83 per cent Essex

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Dodging hail storms on Felixstowe beach

Happy St Paddy’s Day - Slàinte

Join our team to look after the day to day running of service with Lilla & Louise.

We’re seeking someone with personality, confidence and drive with flair, enthusiasm and an appetite for being hospitable.

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Tonight we’re on @channel4 More 4 @billbaileyofficial Perfect Pub Walks with Sir Trevor McDonald at 9pm - give it a watch, not for me rambling about ghosts and staircases but for the beautiful Constable Country and philosophic musings from Bill & Sir Trevor.

No. 2 reaches 10 years of trading….a mini milestone!