… Barbarica Silva was the Roman name for those thick forests & wild woods where the Ligurian rebels hid from Roman expansionism. Today the village is…
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‘You win some, you lose some, some rained out” .. Today, we received the news from those good people over at WineSearcher dot com that our…
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”I trust that you will forgive me. The wines were too varied. It was neither the quality nor the quantity that was at fault. It was…
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What a way to begin the holiday season. Well, this is my way of holidaying; going nowhere, listening to some beautiful music, dreaming of a roasted…
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Everyone & anyone who can seems to be on holiday these days, August 2026. Glorious Goodwood has been glorious, well done Bow Echo, and down here…
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.. when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom .. .. Château d’Yquem was founded…
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The second release of Yarn, the cult English sparkling, arrived this month. Very very limited stocks where available, as they only made one barrel. Selosse, Agrapart,…
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.. a Super Cellar Suprise! June’s first tasting of the month down here was from Domaine Pierre Guillemot, ‘Willie’s Word!’, Savigny-lès-Beaune. La Famille Guillemot are based…
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Born in 1949 in the town of Bra, in Piedmont, Carlo Petrini was a gastronome, journalist, writer, and a tireless advocate for a food system that…
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37 years ago now, there was a special dinner at The River Cafe (Hammersmith in London) hosted by Ludovico Antinori to show us, the then London fine wine trade, a wine that…
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