Skip to content

www.sarahjaneevans.com

  • About
  • Shop
  • Contact
  • Sarah Jane Evans on Instagram
  • Sarah jane Evans on Facebook
  • Contact
www.sarahjaneevans.com

Books

ORDER NOW
BUY NOW

Follow Sarah Jane Evans

  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Book shop now open

Latest Instagram Posts

It’s Throwback Tuesday! Great to congratulate @bustillojosemanuel yesterday for winning Vino Revelación/ Revelation Wine of 2026 @guiapenin. I first tasted this delicious Blanc de noirs (yes, really with 9 months under Flor and then 36 months ageing) in June. Surely Spain’s most original sparkling wine. Picture 3 captures fuzzily the moment I did the sabráge wearing ‘Busti’s’ much used sabrage coat. Congratulations! Well deserved. 🍾🗡️🤺💃 Mega congratulations to chef @rafacentenom for getting his first @michelinguide star tonight. He in @ribeirasacrado wine region, and is the restaurant of @bdreginaviarum winery. I had the great good fortune to eat there last week and could not be more enthusiastic about the food. (This is not quite everything we ate.) I must add that the winery itself is a terrific visit with fine #mencia and #godello grown on astonishingly steep slopes. Hence the name of the restaurant: Vértigo. Delicious launch of the delightful ZASSHU @cabotte_ today. It’s #sake but not as you might expect it. A supple refreshing aromatic blend of vintages from the master blender and molecular specialist @francoischartier and the equally delightful @michaelleagueplaysmusic of @snarkypuppy. I’m a convert: sakes for wine drinkers. Coming to a wine bar or restaurant near you. ZASSHU the new blend, means mutt or mongrel. But it’s a pedigree, no doubt. Why am I taking a selfie looking in the middle distance with Jules Verne who is sitting on an octopus by the port of Vigo? Because none other than literary legend and multi-talented winemaker Bruce Jack told me to. How did he know about the statue in Vigo? It’s a long story. Planning a winter wine discovery? No better place to go than Malaga. Make time for the beaches of course, but hire a car and discover the wondrous hinterland. All is revealed in my feature in this month’s Decanter. Fits easily in your suitcase. And if you want the full background, then pop my latest book The Wines of Central and Southern Spain (@academieduvinlibrary & Amazon) in the suitcase too. What is the Future of Sherry? Well you needed to have joined me @wset_school_london last night to find the answers. Delicious they were too. So this happened in Madrid last night - amongst so many friends from Spain’s wine industry. It’s not every day I get to host a winetasting in a castle - only the second time. Buda Castle in Budapest was the first. And I have never before had a hotel room which looks out on the actual castle. Pictures of this evening’s wines to come. All part of ‘Alicante: Capital Historico del Vino Mediterráneo’ Where better to talk the glories of Garnacha, gorgeously, than Hispania in the City of London? Across a terrific tasting dinner we explored the diversity of the variety: matching jamón croquetas with crisp, citrus, unoaked Garnacha Blanca: @bsanalejandro Baltasar Gracián @docalatayud and @grandesvinos_ca Condes de Aragón @vinoscarinena The gamey, earthy notes of Partridge escabeche with lentils was paired with old vine Garnacha Tinta: @bodegasaragonesas Conde de Hayas Centenaria @docampodeborja and Baltasar Gracián Viñas Viejas. The richness of the melting slow-cooked suckling pig was cut by the freshness of the @cellersunio Perlat Garnacha @domontsant and Grandes Vinos Coronas de Aragón Vińas Viejas. To finish? No, not cheese, but an unexpectedly successful choice of chocolate cake with the @cellersunio Llicorella Clàssic @doqpriorat and Bodegas Aragonesas' Fagus. #garnacha #aragon #winepairing #foodmatching #spainfoodwine @hispanialondon @garnacha.origen Paid promotion www. theeufab6.uk Wondering where to go for brunch in London this weekend? May I suggest @brixtonlaundry run by the fabulous @melwinebrown. And to eat? No less than spicy, creamy Turkish Eggs, Mel’s tribute to the late lamented Providores, run by the pioneering @chefpetergordon. Yes this is @juveycamps but not sparkling as you might expect. My visit is all about @fincaespiells, the still wines @dopenedes. A transformation. Check them out. Memories of a great lunch: @rodolfobastida celebrating 25 years @bodegasramonbilbao; @alimann2001 celebrating not quite as many years as a brilliant PR for the wine trade; @samsriversidew6 providing a terrific menu (don’t miss the cross-cultural Parmesan Churros). Thank you all Standing room only and queuing on the pavement at the Spanish ambassador’s residence in Belgrave Square for 🇪🇸 National Day. It’s a terrific party with a very wide guest list. Excellent tapas from @brindisa_tapas among others plus lashings of proper paella @quique_dacosta_officiel. conversations ranged over everything: magazine publishing in the UK, Australian wine, military sashes, studying Byzantine art, opening champagne at 30,000 feet, jamón carving in San Francisco, philosophy and sculpture @abalonuk. Great to meet heroic ‘plant messiah’ @carlos.magdalena.kew and talk #cacao. #softdiplomacy @spaininuk Great to see Liberty continuing to update and transform its range of Spanish wine at yesterday’s tasting. Particularly good to catch up with Fabio Algueira, smilingly confessing that it was good to escape some of the harvest for the quick trip to London. He had two very smart Godellos, esp Escalada; and two reds, esp the Pizarras which Fabio is holding. #algueira #ribeirasacra. Plea @liberty_wines : please bring in more of Algueira’s fascinating single variety reds. Say ‘Cheese’ and Happy Birthday @jeroboamslondon Cheers to the first 40 years and here’s to the next 40. A bonus at yesterday’s tasting at the splendid Banking Hall was the appearance of cofounder @thecheeseweb aka Juliet Harbutt. At the cheese tasting we reminisced about the early days, and her creation of the British Cheese Awards. Remember her tip - the whiter and brighter the cheese, the lighter and whiter the wine. The deeper and darker the cheese, the darker the red wine. (This is an imperfect paraphrase…) Once you get to blue cheese then it depends on the style. And loud and clear: red wine and Stilton is NOT a match made in heaven. What brings 3 members of the Gran Orden de Caballeros del Vino to Dublin and to talk about the wine of a 4th Caballero? Why - Rias Baixas, of course. The 4th Caballero is Marisol Bueno of Pazo de Senorans. Many lovely wines: mainly Albariño but also Espadeiro and Caiño Blanco. Great afternoon! Thanks for your company, Dublin, and for the invitation @awineidea!
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.

To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • About
  • Shop
  • Contact
  • Sarah Jane Evans on Instagram
  • Sarah jane Evans on Facebook
  • Contact
www.sarahjaneevans.com Privacy Policy Proudly powered by WordPress