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Remember, remember the 5th of November
Dynamite wines! or just a drop of TnT in November (aka: trinitrotoluene or simply Turriga & Titolo) just in time for Guy Fawkes night. Two old favourite UK… read more
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Slowly n` Swiftly but surely
Today we are celebrating the 40th anniversary of signing the Slow Food Manifesto, 8th October 1979. The International Movement for the defence and the right to pleasure. For those… read more
Bubbles in the bath by Ivor Windy-Bottom MW
Well, it is not everyday the phone rings and little ol’me gets invited to the Champagne tasting of the year (if not since ever down here… read more
Rouge, blanc et orange?
Red, White and Orange sound like the colours of a flag from deepest darkest Mozambique. But it is not that! They are in fact the colours of… read more
A peaky Pinot and a rather flatty Fizz
There is current and weird phenomena going on. I hear, and I can see confusion, trouble and a certain amount of high level and rather (maybe)… read more
The glorious & the rather unglorious twelfth!
It’s sparrow’s fart on this 12th August 2019, inflation depending, ”up went 50 pounds, bang went 95 pence and down came ten quid” (as the old… read more
May you live in interesting times!
Well it is indeed that time of year again when the flying winemakers and the flying winedealers end up tripping over each other’s corkscrews, bumping into… read more
Chalking it up at El Cronista
Funny how an informal question or two over the telephone from a Maria-Paula, who I thought was going to be a client, can lead to an… read more
There are rules and then there are plans
Well I have just broken one of my own rules… `never buy En Primeur again William`, I mumbled to myself back in 2016. Well there we… read more
Fragile!
Life is in indeed both Fragile! and Strange! as are bottles of wine, and for that matter their contents when badly, or wrongly handled and cellared…. read more