“arguably Italy’s greatest native white grape variety.”
An interesting Petite Arvine
As you will probably know, I'm organising the gathering of online communicators, bloggers and other wine fanatics, in Montreux, Switzerland this year. To educate and entertain myself, I'm exploring the flavours of Swiss wine...
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Drinking to friends
I'm about to leave the family for over a week to spend an extended time in the company of fellow "digital communicators" interested in wine at the Digital Wine Communications Conference (DWCC).
Much as I...
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Choosing wine … to get you through the rest of the year
Believe it or not, that time has come again.
The pumpkins will barely have stopped smouldering, wafting aromas of charred squash from their carved insides, toasted...
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Darth Baker Faces a Nutty Problem
The ageing Anakin Skywalker never had to deal with this! OK, he had an Empire to subjugate, but I have to face my own battles too - the weekend family to-do list. That is how...
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Taste some unusual wines on Monday evening at The Sampler
calling wine fans, especially the more adventurous ones, to come along and taste
You’re never too old for fun
It was a pleasure to meet this wine again after all these years, and learn that like people, old wines can be lots of fun and we still have a lot to learn from them.