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19 Ninety-Nine Cuvée ´´S´´

November is the month of both ´giving´ and ´thanks´, and I had the good fortune to share & enjoy a bottle, with huge thanks, of the 1999 vintage Champagne Brut Blanc de Blancs “Cuvée S…
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Spanna in the works!

As flight BA1982 from Heathrow started descending, over bumpily for my liking, to Guglielmo Marconi Airport (Bologna) at the end of last month, the captain announced on his…
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Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust

Ornellaia derives from two Italian words. ‘Orn’ refers to ‘ornello’ or ‘ornielli’ meaning ash tree or ash trees in Italian. The Ash was prized in Tuscany…
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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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