Last week Elisa and I visited the Enotria producers in Piemonte and Liguria. It was midsummer, a full moon, and the hills were alive with the clink clink of bottling lines and cries of dismay at Italy’s World Cup performance. Madness was in the air, but we ploughed on regardless ...
On July 25th nine of us will be saddling up our two wheeled charges and boldly riding, from a place called Enfield somewhere in North London, all the way to Cambridge, some 57 miles hence.
Tim, Edgar, Dan H, Dan H(ii), Sergio, Pete W, Andy, Jon ‘my other bike’s also better ...
Douglas Blyde files this report from the recent Armagnac Castarede tasting at Angelus:
“I VENTURED to the beamed vault under ‘Angelus’, Lancaster Gate for an early tasting of old spirits. There, behind a glass partition on a scrubbed flagstone floor slumber crates of the 1er grand cru classé St. Emilion which ...
Journalists, sommeliers and leading Italian wine experts gathered in London on June 7 for the UK launch of Coevo from Cecchi. This wine, which has been greeted with great reviews since its launch in Italy, is Cecchi’s way of celebrating their region and the grapes which have made it famous. Coevo, ...
A visit I had been looking forward to for a while. This week I took the two prizewinners from Alexander House Hotels to Rioja to visit Marquis de Riscal. Riscal has the unique distinction of being both the oldest Rioja house (founded in 1858) and one of the most innovative. ...
God bless the world wide web. Something that I confess had never occured to me – the fact that Spain is the only wine producing country not to refer to their red wine as red (rosso) or black (negro) but instead as ‘tinted’ (tinto). Tom Perry, Rioja expert writes on ...