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One hundred & eight and Out!
Cow tail, choclo (corn on the cob), pork tail and pork chop, roast beef, carrots, cabbage, sausage, blood sausage, tongue, bacon, rice, chicken and spinach. With… read more
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20 years ago? was indeed 1997
Time sure flies when you are having fun, vinous or otherwise. Twenty years ago, in Bordeaux, after a pretty warm and early start to the summer,… read more
Solidario-derA (BdM)
I am turning the clock back to 1988, springtime in Tuscany, and I am knocking on the door, of a pretty much unknown then, Milanese insurance… read more
A roar came from the ferocious Lion Village
I can remember tasting 2005 Ch.Leoville-Poyferre in the ‘En Primeur’ tasting (2006 in Bdx) and thinking what an amazing, powerhouse of an elegant wine it was.
End of an era ora (long live Revuelto Gramajo)
Much to my shock, I read this week that one of the great Buenos Aires classics that opened back in the early 1940’s, has just closed it’s doors forever.
1er Grand Cru Classe lands on the moon…
Okay, it’s only a metaphor, but when needed, fits the bill completely, upon this land of Mendocian Malbec and Bonarda. So we have had a first,… read more
from Bombay to Bordeaux (via Burgundy and a Barbus Macedonicus) and almost back again…
Having just returned to the office, after a few days (sorry weeks), away on Wine Tastings, Wine Meetings and Wine Dinners, including a fascinating Indian Cuisine Masterclass
Will sells no wine before its time
Orson Welles 1978 Paul Masson wine commercial
GoB Smacked
Swartland wine producers appear to have lost their legal battle to stop sandmining in Paardeberg, a move which Eben Sadie says threatens to undermine 20 years’… read more
Zalto Madnezz
…If you don’t think that the wine glass is important, why not drink from the bottle? (well, sometimes I do when I cannot get my hands on… read more