London
This evening we decided to visit Eat Thai on St. Christopher’s Place; a Thai restaurant that some have reported as offering the best Thai food in London. If you’ve …
Burgundy
Picking the best bottle I own is more problematic than deciding that Mambourg from Deiss is horrible; what constitutes the best? Heroic formats can be compelling. I have a …
Alsace
In the early nineties Jean-Michel Deiss was making spell-binding, exciting, thrilling Riesling; I snapped up all I could find and afford. Then, for some presumably psychotic reason, he decided …
General
Last Saturday we joined the neighbours to cook a veritable feast of Thai food. We could not have done this without the truly excellent book Thai Food by David …
Buying recommendations
Clos Vougeot Grand Cru 2001, Domaine Rene Engel: Snap up these deeply affordable and high quality wines from the late, lamented M. Engel whilst you still can. This is …
Ceramics
Yes, it is another Sarah-Jane Selwood bowl. This is only a little one, with a very pleasing ice-crackle glaze. I am told it is called Falling Counterpoint 1. It …
Burgundy
An excellent bottle from the much-missed Philippe Engel. He made extremely good wines and didn’t charge the earth for them. Echezeaux Grand Cru 1999, Domaine Rene Engel By arse …
Burgundy
This may not be the most grand of the Dujac wines I’ve been lucky enough to try over the past 15 or so years, but by arse we are …
Germany
I’ve never really thought that Leitz wine age so well, but this is reasonably attractive. Better when it was just released, though. Riesling Spatlese Rudesheimer Magdalenenkreuz 2002, Weingut Leitz …
Rhône
Gentaz-Dervieux was the great old man of the Cote-Rotie. I feel privileged to have had many vintages from the 70s and 80s whilst at Oxford (many thanks to Paul …
