Richard Woodard

Club Oenologique contributor

Mildly shocked by the realisation that he has been writing about booze for 20 years, Richard Woodard is now struggling to cope with the ignominy of being an Ipswich Town fan living in Norwich.

200 years of Delamain Cognac

The Collection

Richard Woodard gives a brief history of famed Cognac house Delamain, before diving into a tasting that starts with a special bicentenary offering

by Richard Woodard

200-year anniversary bottling of delamain cognac laid flat

Littlemill: the fall and rise

The Collection

Upon the release of a series of ‘Vanguard’ whisky rarities from Littlemill’s surviving stock, Richard Woodard tells the tale of the ill-fated Scotch distillery and tastes back through a limited archive to discover how time and chance may now, finally, be on this spirit’s side

by Richard Woodard