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Drawing the Lignier line
It’s one the warmest nights of the year here, so far, and I am headed to a Burgundy dinner where everything being poured, including the chilled… read more
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Lei-siling
Lei-siling, Rizling or Riesling depending on which side of the globe you find yourself on. In Argentina they would call this noble white grape Reeezlinn. Either… read more
Bravura! (part 2)
For whom the bell tolls, or should I say “is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell” Macbeth (W.S.) Going to bed late… read more
Benny (Hill) Leroux
I have just read that today, 18th August, is International Pinot Noir Day!. I had no idea, and not even sure what it means, sorry. But… read more
Scrabbling around …
We had another powercut down here last week, not so unusual, and I found myself ‘scrabbling’ around in the dark for a bottle of red to… read more
‘Ausonius’
I am feeling a little bit Ausonius today, probably as it’s the first day of Augustus Caesar the eighth month in our Gregorian calendar (and 30 more days… read more
Let’s get swiggy with the Tiggy-wiggy
Bojo has now gone, grrrrr, and the price of young drinking Tignanello has just gone up, grrrrr! What’s the link here? Well, over the last 2… read more
Grazij!
July is the month of rubeus or what we call today ruby. The king of gems once worn by warriors to protect themselves from the enemy,… read more
De ‘Carlos’ Best!
Burgundian Charles Lachaux voted best “young winemaker” in the world. At just thirty-two years of age, Charles Lachaux, the boss of the Arnoux-Lachaux estate in Vosne-Romanée (Côte-d’Or), was voted the… read more
A rose is a rose is a rogue!
‘The Spring is sprung, the grass is riz, I wonders where the birdie is? The birdie is on the wing.’ It all reminds a little of a… read more