Drink Tank - Olly Smith

Roll-up, roll-up, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the wonderful and frightening world of Olly Smith – the world's most entertaining wine writer.

• The Wonderful and Frightening World of Olly Smith

  Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk

  (04-08-2008)

  Right on chew, a niff in the air rebirths a..

• The Wonderful and Frightening World of Olly Smith Tron Cannavan

  Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk

  (01-04-2008)

  In 1982, Disney created a visionary movie called Tron. Jeff Bridges is sucked into a computer world where he battles the virtual forces of corrupt corporate greed. I was eight when I watched this with my granny at the ABC in Bournemouth and it blew my mind. Granny fell asleep. I have been..

• The Wonderful and Frightening World of Olly Smith Attack of the sommeliers

  Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk

  (01-03-2008)

  Return of the Jedi has a great moment when the rebel fleet is swarmed over by a mighty throng of small Imperial TIE Fighters. It's a bit like watching an army of enraged prawns converging on the face of a scuba diver. I've never been attacked by a sommelier, but I have mates who begin to..

• Sam! - a-ha, saviour of the vinous

  Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk

  (01-11-2007)

  It's not helpful to be scared witless by planes if you're a fan of vineyards. I was never afraid of flying until I sat next to Nick Ostler on a plane to Spain. Nick's fear of flying is hurricane strength and while he manfully continued jabbing his broken pencil into his book of word puzzles to..

• The Wonderful and Frightening World of Olly Smith

  Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk

  (01-10-2007)

  Cava: it's a gas (that's hip,..

• Olly Smith: Never Can Say Goodbye

  Author: Olly Smith

  (01-09-2007)

  I'm browsing Facebook and listening to Supertramp's Goodbye Stranger. It's frightening how connected we all are.

• Olly Smith: All the fun of the fair

  Author: Olly Smith

  (23-07-2007)

  One of my greatest fears is to be trapped in suspended animation, unable to communicate with the world around me.

• Olly Smith: Fino at the feria lifts fear like fog from the fens

  Author: Olly Smith

  (01-07-2007)

  The wonderful and frightening world of Olly..

• Olly Smith: Astonished and petrified by the Peanut Grigions

  Author: Olly Smith

  (01-06-2007)

  The wonderful and frightening world of Olly..

• Olly Smith: The true taste of terror

  Author: Olly Smith

  (01-05-2007)

  What do wine matching for Michel Roux, the research of Dr Roger Corder, blind-tasting butter with Jean-Cristophe Novelli and facing a hungry South African catfish have in common? They are all terrifying. I was plugged into a symphonic bottle of Tulbagh Mountain Vineyards Theta 2003 (100 per cent..