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Some Champagne Insights 8 Aug 2010 | 07:37 am
One of the highlights so far this summer was spending a couple of days in Epernay in Champagne. We stayed in a beautiful B&B just outside Cramant, a small village in the middle of The Côte des Blancs....
Wine of the Month, Aug 2010: Moccagatta Barbaresco 1999 8 Aug 2010 | 07:29 am
Finally, I picked up some wines that I had stored at a friend’s place to transfer to my brothers house, where he kindly lets me borrow a wine fridge. Inevitably I ended up going through each bottle to...
Wine of the Month, July 2010: Les Donelieres, Muscadet Sèvre et Maine, 2009 8 Aug 2010 | 07:25 am
Earlier this summer we spent a week in Cancale, Bretagne, home of some of the greatest farmed oysters in the world. So far I have mainly had champagne with my oysters, typically as a starter in a posh...
Wine Auction – reviewing the catalogue 6 Jun 2010 | 08:51 am
So the catalogue of the Sotheby’s ” Finest and Rarest Wines & Vintage Port” auction has just arrived. It turns out it is absolutely packed with masses of expensive wines (which I could have guessed ba...
Wine Auction – that sounds exciting! 1 Jun 2010 | 07:09 am
At a friends birthday party some 5 years ago now I met a man who told me about a hobby of his, which was to go to wine auctions in the hunt for weird wines and bargains. That thought sort of stuck and...
Wine Auction – that sounds exciting! 1 Jun 2010 | 03:09 am
At a friends birthday party some 5 years ago now I met a man who told me about a hobby of his, which was to go to wine auctions in the hunt for weird wines and bargains. That thought sort of stuck and...