On Not Enjoying Expensive Wine: Part 2
Columbo: I want you to teach me everything you know. Wine Expert: It took me forty years to acquire my expertise. Columbo: Well, what can you do in an hour…
Columbo: I want you to teach me everything you know. Wine Expert: It took me forty years to acquire my expertise. Columbo: Well, what can you do in an hour…
I receive around a dozen mails per day from PR companies asking whether I want to improve our brand recognition. I appreciate that much time is dedicated to developing…
Cevennes up Our second port of call on day one was to the renowned biodynamic estate, Mas Foulaquier, owned and run by the affable Pierre JĂ©quier and Blandine Chauchat. A mas was…
Domaine Hauvette, Beau en Provence Despite the best efforts of Marseille airport to stymy our arrival, we penetrated Franceâs Provençale perimeter, hired our fleet of jalopies, and set off…
Part One â Oregon not forgotten In 1982 when Chariots of Fire was awarded an Oscar for Best Picture, actor and director Colin Welland memorably exclaimed: âThe British are comingâ.…
Weâve been championing the flipside of the Aussie wine scene since four young Turks, James Erskine, Tom Shobbrook, Anton van Klopper and Sam Hughes combined to form a natural…
Sublime outrage Let us pay tribute to the magnificent otherness of certain wines, those that defy expectations in the most glorious way. Over the years, natural wines have shifted the…
It is with deep sorrow that we learned of the passing of Susanna Forbes after a lengthy illness. She co-founded Little Pomona Cidery & Orchard, with her husband James and they…
Over the decades wine styles have changed due to the application of modern (often industrial) farming techniques and also been radically altered by vinification methods designed to âclean upâ…
I am not an expert (to put it mildly) about whether the systemic use of chemicals in vineyards and the cocktail of allowable additives used to stabilise wines is injurious…