Articles by Algy Belville

About Algy Belville

We are delighted to add Algy Belville to our team of writers. Algy was a director of family film Bodgers and Belville , Wine Merchants of St James. He will be contributing a column on wine. Algy lives in Amberley Sussex , is captain of his Crown Bowls team and a local Councillor. More Posts

Wine: does it pay?

When I first was approached to write for this esteemed organ I asked the editor: “How do I pitch my copy … to the connoisseurs or to the guys looking for good value plonk in Tesco?” Miles replied: ‘You are a cricketing man, Algy?” “I have been a member of the [...]

August 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

Wine tasting and Decanter awards

Yesterday evening I attended my third event of the Sussex Wine School. At this the instructor Johnny brought six of his own wines to be tasted blind and another attendee contributed two. Once again two young ladies to my left and opposite, sat down at the long table and began texting. A wine [...]

July 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

WINE TASTING

Yesterday I attended a wine tasting of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc and Argentinian Malbec. Both countries’ wine-making benefits from diurnal weather- hot days, cool nights. Argentina has much the longer tradition of wine making, New Zealand is truly New World. They now produce 300m litres of [...]

July 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

A glimpse of what’s coming further down the line?

For my sins – actually it was a privilege – yesterday I accompanied my 91 year old father to a ‘Fifty Years On’ reunion lunch at his old university college at which, having ‘gone up’ in 1943 at the age of eighteen under a WW2 scheme whereby chaps going into the services could do a year [...]

June 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

Summer wine and its marketing

In our wine business I had responsibility for marketing which took various forms: the wine estates and sometimes even the region would do their marketing, we were conscious of our own image as a prestigious St James wine merchant specialsing in vintage Clarets and Port but the aspect I found most [...]

June 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

Sussex wine

I was honoured to be asked to contribute to the National Rust on wine. I have known the redoubtable Daphne Colthard for years and no one can pick apart a restaurant wine menu better than Daffers. However she freely admits that wine for drinking and for investment is not her Prada bag. I thought [...]

June 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

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