Hard cheese-
Having spoken to Philippe Marques for our People in Wine programme just before Christmas and learnt that Alain Senderens the great French chef had spent his whole life trying to tell people that red wine and cheese don’t go together, it was interesting to see these results confimed in a more scientific way. Incidentally Monsieur [...]
Pinot - the parties in the first part
We’ve posted our latest podcast entitled Pinot Noir Around the World Part I. That’s right… we’ve had to divide our material into two parts because we had so much of it. I think the interviews we have with the winemakers are fascinating - they all have hugely different backgrounds - and yet united in their [...]
Martin Luther King Day
The eloquence of Martin Luther King, his ideals and his vision inspired millions.
I thought I would use this blog to remember him and provide further inspiration through the voice of another figure whom I admire - Graca Michel. Graca Michel, the wife of Nelson Mandela is a social scientist and here she is talking [...]
Tasting notes from the cellar
For the past two weeks, I have spent almost every day in a professional warehouse inspecting thousands of bottles from what I am now convinced is the greatest cellar in America. Having had the privilege of being in hundreds of great cellars in the United States, I can diligently say this cellar is beyond compare. [...]
Scores, scores, scores… and DRC Romanèe Conti 2002
Oh dear… this is that terrible business of wine scoring again. Tom Wark over at Fermentations makes a point that perhaps we should draw distinctions between a $1600 wine and one that, well, costs a lot less… See here The Wine Critic’s Responsibility & the $1600 Wine. Of course, this isn’t a new story, far [...]
A Presidential Wine Club…
…not bad for just $39.95 per month.
Bob Dickinson CEO of Carnival Cruise Lines is a serious wine collector. He has taken his passion and is making his knowledge and enthusiasm available to other wine enthusiasts. A wonderful idea.
The site’s blurb says that “The Presidential Wine Club provides a wide variety of features and [...]
The wine has ’swing’: or, wine as jazz and vice versa
I recently came across this interesting analogy entitled ‘Does jazz rejoice the heart’? I make no apologies for the fact it was written for a jazz festival 12 years ago (1993), since its currency is obvious. Xavier Felgeyrolles wrote it to promote
blog on wine blogs 2005
A short uncritical look at some of blog au vin’s blog roll
I thought that a review of the different blogs featured in our blog roll on Blog au Vin (I hope that’s not too many ‘blogs’ for you) would be interesting from a number of points of view. First, if you’re unable to keep up [...]