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Larks ahoy!

I was only planning to go to three or four tastings when in Burgundy in July. I have contacted Domaine Arlaud, Domaine Roulot and Domaine Roumier to make bookings already. Then I got a call from the friendly winemaker who will be acting as one of our hosts saying that she wanted to join us [...]


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Spot the favourites

I was just looking at my wine database, specifically the distribution of regions and the varietals of all my wines. This is the regions distribution: Here are the varietals: As you can see, I like red Burgundy. The only other Pinot Noir I own is a single bottle of Blanc de Noirs Champagne and a [...]


Hooray for Oxford!

Every year since 1953 Oxford and Cambridge universities have competed in a blind wine tasting competition. I was in the Oxford University team about a decade ago. We never lost. In this year’s competition I am very pleased to report that Oxford has won again. I say ‘again’ because Cambridge have only won nineteen times [...]


Lewd, rude and crude to know

Someone has found this site with the search terms ‘lewd yet interesting’. Oddly, I am vaguely flattered by being Google’s tenth best source of information on being lewd yet interesting. Suits me down to the ground. Yes, this post could well be seen as an attempt to push up my lewd yet interesting-rankings on those [...]

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