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We finally show ourselves as we truly are!
Well, after many years of guiding ‘wine professionals’ and non professionals, of course, around the top bodegas of Mendoza, Salta and the Rio Negro (Argentina). We can… read more
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To Striptease or not to Striptease?
Well, any opportunity to keep a beedy eye on a fabulous piece of work by Amedeo Clemente Modigliani, is worth the next few lines in my… read more
Boney pickwicky papers & a very blind tasting
… and i don’t mean that we need to look at James Hayter’s dentistry records to see how much red wine did effect the shocking condition… read more
What’s in a case?
The question is of course prerogative, as what I am asking here is that when you order a case of wine from your good Wine Merchant, and i… read more
An innkeeper, a trombonist and an imobiliário
Last night’s gathering, bought together an Innkeeper, a Trombonist, an Imobiliário (uy uy uy) and of course your faithful correspondent. It turned out to be a ‘blind-tasting’… read more
A Pele, a Pique and a Pizzaro
GollllL !! hopping on the, almost, national (TAM) Brasilian airline (my favourate), as i travel north over the river Plate. The plane levels off and… read more
a 1945 atomic vintage
17 years before I was born, the world changed on a level that I do not really think anyone has looked close at the sheer horror… read more
French oak or American Oak, French cement or American cement?
French oak or American Oak, French cement or American cement? … to be or not to be, that was once the question? Now, according to the… read more
Chi sa bere sa vivere
“… he who knows how to drink, knows how to live” I often lament the fact that only the 1990 and 2009 are wines that fully… read more
1989 Barolo Bric del Fiasc Paolo Scavino
I have tried this wine three times over the last fifteen years. Some chums get together and we taste it every five years to see how… read more