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Oh does the cookie crumble?
What a funny olde world we are living in eh. In the last week, I have probably tasted and dined on more good wine, in six… read more
Enjoying Wine
Traditional Specialities Guaranteed (1986 vintage) TSG
Tenuta San Guido (TSG) also happens to be the birth place and home, still, to the great Vino da Tavola, Sassicaia! Of the many wines that… read more
The three blind mice
The three blind mice, three blind mice, and the only one we got right was the Claret (but not the vintage!), and yes they were all… read more
Saluti! I am not going to pretend with you that 2017 was great…
Saluti! I am not going to pretend with you that 2017 was a great year… as it certainly was not. And I am not talking about… read more
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom…You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.” Well, for almost… read more
Power & Refinement all in one glass of fizz
Our miniscule allocation of Pol Roger 2002 vintage has just been delivered, only in magnums of course and in very small quantites. Number 10 got in… read more
Elena Fucci`s Aglianico del Vulture “Titolo“ 2015 has landed!
Elena Fucci`s Aglianico del Vulture “Titolo“ 2015 (Basilicata) Let me, humbly, introduce you, dear reader, to something you have never come across before… Titolo!!! The estate… read more
A metafizzical Shakespearean blind tasting
And as Willy once said ”good wine, and a good welcome can make good company” Our monthly gathering of the vinous folk appeared, in hand, with various… read more
Bubbles are bubbling and the Coteaux is coteauXing
Being a total Champagne freak. And for those friends in the southern Hemisphere who have not been locked up yet in La Bastille (Paris) for drinking… read more
The Johnny Rotten core is to be found in every Johnny Rotten apple
This story begins with a young family, a father, mother and son standing in the queue at the Aduana’s office (the local Customs import office at… read more