a little Leroy lunch for two…
2011 Leroy Volnay 1er Cru ‘Les Brouillards’ I love the fact that we can have a casual Tuesday lunch in one of the town’s finest eateries, and demolish… read more
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2011 Leroy Volnay 1er Cru ‘Les Brouillards’ I love the fact that we can have a casual Tuesday lunch in one of the town’s finest eateries, and demolish… read more
To finish with sherry, or at least the sherries on my list, let me note a wonderful Pedro Ximenes, stamped `Sherry`, and furnished to me with… read more
Dynamite wines! or just a drop of TnT in November (aka: trinitrotoluene or simply Turriga & Titolo) just in time for Guy Fawkes night. Two old favourite UK… read more
Today we are celebrating the 40th anniversary of signing the Slow Food Manifesto, 8th October 1979. The International Movement for the defence and the right to pleasure. For those… read more
Well, it is not everyday the phone rings and little ol’me gets invited to the Champagne tasting of the year (if not since ever down here… read more
Red, White and Orange sound like the colours of a flag from deepest darkest Mozambique. But it is not that! They are in fact the colours of… read more
There is current and weird phenomena going on. I hear, and I can see confusion, trouble and a certain amount of high level and rather (maybe)… read more
It’s sparrow’s fart on this 12th August 2019, inflation depending, ”up went 50 pounds, bang went 95 pence and down came ten quid” (as the old… read more
Well it is indeed that time of year again when the flying winemakers and the flying winedealers end up tripping over each other’s corkscrews, bumping into… read more
Funny how an informal question or two over the telephone from a Maria-Paula, who I thought was going to be a client, can lead to an… read more