Saint-Bacchus: photo memory from the 1990s

For a number of years during the 1990s I was invited by the Comité  des Vins du Roussillon to judge and attend their Saint-Bacchus event, which was organised by Christine Ontivero. This photo of the group (above) has appeared on Facebook this evening.

Saint-Bacchus 1994 – Jim with Tim Atkin and Giles MacDonogh

Skin Côntact Live! – first set of pics

A few scenes from last evening's fantastic Skin Côntact Live – more pics in later posts:

 Côtes du Rhône

 Bassist Ben Smith tasting before the event

Wot is Ewan Murray singing tonite....!?

Neal Martin on the decks 

apparently assisted by a bottle of Pichon

Chris Scott waiting for the gig to start

Mimi Avery getting into Wine Relief

Last minute rehearsal for Joe Wadsack

 (above and below)

Richard Hemming starting Skin Côntact

MW. Jagger from SW London...

 Alex Hunt on lead guitar

The Red Sisters – Anne McHale and Helen Chesshire

More to follow 

The U.K.'s Top Wine Influencers as measured by @WineOwners: in @Number 2!!?

The Top 10 UK Wine Influencers

Scores of the Top 14 influencers  

Over the weekend Nick Martin did tell me that I had done very well in their new UK influence measure but I was astonished but, of course, pleased to see that I was second in their list. No surprise that Team Jancis takes top spot but I would have thought that people, for instance, like Jamie Goode, Fiona Beckett, Tim Atkin, Victoria Moore, Matthew Jukes and William Lyons would be measured as having more influence than myself and my blogs – Jim's Loire and investdrinks.