...and some salmon caviar (or even real caviar, if you’re pulling all the stops out), while the minerality of the Larmandier-Bernier finds an echo in the salinity of oysters. Don’t...
Hot, historic and plentiful: if you had to choose three adjectives to describe the 2018 vintage in Burgundy, this trio tells you almost all you need to know. What Aubert...
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...ladies bible club. They got together weekly for mutual confidence and enlightenment, and copious spiritual discussion, coffee and cake. Clubs have always seemed benign, to me. They harness the power...
...The singer’s French too, so really should know better. Lovely song though. Alanis Morissette – Ironic The Canadian singer’s 1996 global smash is a pedant’s goldmine, and there are plenty...
...was fantasy – if a PR coup for Rathfinny. But it was also typical of ministers’ efforts to distract us from the real impact of Brexit. Theirs is the noise...
...mistaken and Plavac Mali is the offspring of the grape known in Croatia by the catchy name Crlenjak Kaštelanski (crossed with also-indigenous Dobričić). It likely arrived in California, however, in...
...bit’: ‘Before Vivino changed the Regional Style system in the app into a total disaster, there was a straightforward system: producer countries had Regional Styles like “California Merlot”, “Left Bank...
...as Louis MacNeice put it in ‘Snow’. Wines can do that too. Poems, and here they surpass wines, can distil critical moments of existence and decision into the most essential...
Call it serendipity, call it fate, but there are times when events and conversations seem to align. You go for months without thinking about something and then it’s everywhere, filling...
...fall in love with Bordeaux all over again. Château du Moulin Rouge, which predates the famous Parisian cabaret with a similar name, is a very well-placed Cru Bourgeois between Margaux...
...upon personal sacrifice and devotion. This message hasn’t carried to mega-yacht owners overwintering in the Caribbean, where they drink Le Pin chilled as a pre-dinner sundowner. The only thing you...
...growth in online sales, but COVID-19 has accelerated a process that would have played out over the next few years anyway. Some of the blame can be put on Sir...