The Wine Detective (aka Sarah Ahmed) involved in sticky case@RSJ

Sarah kneading the pasta

Sarah Ahmed (Portuguese Wine Writer of the Year 2009) and friends headed to the RSJ Restaurant early this morning to help prepare today's Sunday lunch with Ursula Ferrigno.

  This is pasta joke...

Seem to have lost the thread here...

Ursula's amused

The Wine Detective revamped and launches blog

Sarah Ahmed

Sarah Ahmed, one of the Loire judges for the Decanter World Wine Awards and sometimes my Loire travelling companion, has revamped her website and also launched a blog, despite previously declaring that she had no intention of having a blog. Her site can be found here and the blog here. She is the Portuguese Wine Awards Wine Writer of the Year for 2009.

The Wine Detective investigates Sancerre

Sarah listens intently to Jean-Laurent Vacheron@Les Belles Dames vineyard.

(13 August 2008)

Some ten years ago Sarah Ahmed (aka The Wine Detective) left her high powered and remunerative job as an international lawyer to seek her fortune in wine. She is a Loire and Chenin Blanc aficionado. Sarah looks after the Loire section of the Oz Clarke Pocket Wine Book, as well as Portugal, and is a valued member of the Loire panel of judges for the Decanter World Wine Awards. She has a particular interest in the Loire’s organic and biodynamic producers.

"Anything you say will be noted and may be
used as evidence against you ..........."

Sarah is one of the very few UK wine journalists and writers, who is a regular at the annual Salon des Vins de Loire. held in Angers. Most of the UK wine press can't be arsed to take advantage of this friendly, well organised Salon that, every February, covers the whole of Loire – France's third largest wine region. Just four of us represented the UK at the 2008 edition – what a contrast to the UK wine buyers who are well represented. The 2009 edition is from 2nd to 4th February.

Sarah Ahmed: www.thewinedetective.co.uk
Salon des Vins de Loire: www.salondesvinsdeloire.com