Peach Pubs
Jo Eames
Eames has been wine buyer for Peach Pubs since it first opened the doors at the Rose & Crown in Warwick in 2002. Eight years later, Peach has 13 pubs, mainly in market towns across the Midlands and South East, and has won many awards, including Caterer & Hotelkeeper’s Best Places to Work in Hospitality for the last two years. Jo co-owns Peach with partners Lee Cash and Hamish Stoddart. When not wine-tasting or project-managing the development of new sites, she writes. Her novel, The Faithless Wife, will be published in June 2010.
Pub not going bust shock!
15-05-2012 | Category: England PeopleIf a week is a long time in politics, then ten years is an age (an epoch, an aeon?) in catering. To have survived is a feat, to have prospered and made so many firm friends feels especially lucky. » More
Mine's a pint! Hold the menu
07-11-2011 | Category: Beers OpinionsYou walk into the pub, tired at the end of a long day, ask the barman for a pint of your favourite and drink it. You feel better. No user name. No password. No toggle. No swipe. No grape variety to mispronounce. No worry over the wrong vintage. No bloody dribble in the bottom of the glass first to pass judgment on. » More
Move to Metroland!
17-10-2011 | Category: England Business NewsIn my carpet-bag of a career, when I’m not buying wine or writing I can be found staring at a dilapidated pub building, wondering how to bring it back to life. And “life” is the word I want, because pubs are not (or shouldn’t be) just buildings. They are first and foremost characters. » More
I May Not Know Much...
30-05-2011 | Category: White onlyHaving spent spent barely ten years educating myself in a certain corner of the wine trade (that is, the wines that suit gastropubs) it was first a shock, and then deliciously amusing to find that maybe, just maybe, that’s an area I now know a bit more about than one of the grand old men. » More
The iPad cometh?
15-02-2011 | Category: Opinions ServiceIt was only a matter of time before I was handed my first wine list on iPad. And it happened last week, over lunch at the new Montpelier Chapter in Cheltenham, the hotel formerly known as Kandinsky. » More
Pork to Fork in a Day
29-11-2010 | Category: Events People BusinessFinally, the guest of honour. She arrived with Simon in an Aubrey Allen van » More
Life Lessons from Lebanon
26-10-2010 | Category: Opinions People WinesSitting over lunch at the Massaya winery restaurant at Tanail, in the Bekaa Valley, winemaker Ramzi Ghosn swirled the stunning 2005 Silver Selection in his glass and asked us: “What has been your strongest impression of Lebanon?” » More
A Tasting Room With A View
21-08-2010 | Category: Italy Tastings People Red onlyWill I be denounced in Pseud’s Corner if I say that, just occasionally, it’s possible to taste a wine that, just for a moment, seems to resonate with your soul? Probably. But what the hell? On Tuesday morning, I had a moment. It was in Serralunga d’Alba in the tasting room at Massolino... » More
Funny Old Week
19-07-2010 | Category: Languedoc-Rouisillon Red only Rosé only GrenacheTwo very different Fridays - wine the common thread. » More
You'll Never Tweet Alone
25-06-2010 | Category: England Opinions BusinessMarooned in an unfamiliar market town on the day of a crucial England match? Just tweet and you'll soon be amongst friends. » More
