Category: France
Burgundy
Let us face it, most of the time plain boiled potatoes are pretty dreary. Even baby new potatoes that are not over-cooked still fire up passion only vanishingly rarely. …
Burgundy
When you pop a few bottles with your chums just for random drinking you don’t always expect them all to deliver superior, serious drinking value. I did very well …
Alsace
Last week I got a call from my doctor with the results of a blood test. She told me I had diabetes and so needed to come in and …
Burgundy
I am rather partial to the wines of Benjamin Leroux – his stewardship at Comte Armand has produced some of the greatest, most thrilling and ravishingly lovely Pommards I …
Alsace
Whenever I have been lucky enough to taste chez Boxler it has always been the Rieslings that I have wanted to secure as my own. Consequently, when looking at …
Bordeaux
Part two of my report on the Ile d’Amour larks is about the red wines. Edward has a bit of a thing for Claret, which my long-term reader will …
Alsace
Last weekend we had the good fortune to visit the Tully family in Jersey. Whilst Edward Tully and I ran the Oxford University blind tasting team we tasted quite …
Burgundy
Given my title for this post I want to make it abundantly clear that my violent illness had nothing to do with lovely Richard and his brilliant cooking. Sometimes …
Burgundy
In his excellent new book Inside Burgundy the top (and rather florid) geezer Jasper Morris MW describes Gevrey-Chambertin wines as being those Burgundies which most fit the ‘international’ idiom …
Burgundy
Extravagant Mosel Riesling, fervid Chablis with some red Burgundy to follow up sounds like an experience every lover of good times would revel in. However, as I rarely travel …