Zaltissimo!

To begin at the beginning, there was Stolzle, a Spiegelau, a Schott Zwiesel and then a Riedel.  ´´It´s spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent…
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Die Zauberflöte

When was the last time you went to New York? By the way, this is not an existential question by any means. I last visited New York…
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Still banking on Bordeaux?

Sell in May and Go Away was a well-known adage from the Square Mile referring, of course, to an underperforming market from May (to October?), in contrast to the busy period…
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Bubbles in the Bath

Egly-Ouriet is undoubtedly still one of Champagne’s top producers, sitting comfortably alongside world-famous Krug, Selosse, and others. Under the careful stewardship of Francis Egly, a fourth-generation…
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Montevideo or Bust!

Montevideo It is always time to sit up and pay attention when Uruguay comes to town (London in this case), especially when the opportunity arises to…
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Bravura! (part 1)

‘Hallo Meester! did you av goot day?’ was the nightly reception greeting at the hosterlerie I was hauled up in for a week in lovely Monforte…
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