I picked up a wine journal over the week-end and read this interview with Isa Bal. A native to Turkey, living in London. I had never…
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Ratafia is an old, usually domestically produced wine made in the French countryside by drying grapes to a raisin like state and then moistening and fermenting them in the…
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‘IL Etait Une Fois’ I do not think that I could have put this any better,´IL Etait Une Fois´ or ‘Once Upon a Time’ (Jqs.Selosse) … there was indeed wine, quaffable…
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Melchior, Gaspar & Balthazar, the three wise men are on their way to Bethlehem using their GPS of the day ‘El Cosmos’. And ‘en route’ they bumped…
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I do love it when the message arrives from Bordeaux telling us what the new Mouton ‘Artist’ label is for their last bottled vintage (in this…
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In the good old U S of A today (U.M.A.?) it’s Thanks Giving Day!  I know that they all have a few days off and love a…
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Varietal thinking is treacherous … but it seems to be conceptually necessary for us. How else can we keep the worrisome chaos of the wine world…
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Appearances can of course be deceiving, we all know that already, but sometimes things are not quite what they seem at first glance! That of course…
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Dimanche 19 Octobre 2025, Paris Arriving at Gare de Nord (Paris) on a Sunday morning and then taking a cab to my hotel on the otherside…
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.. it that time of year when very very small amounts of top league Burgundy arrive in our cellars. In this case it’s the 2023 vintage of Hubert Lamy’s top notch Saint-Aubin.  …
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