1787 - was it even a good year? Continued/…
So, I was about to tell you about Yquem..
..but then a book flopped through my letterbox - An Evening with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson* by James Gabler (published by Bacchus Press Ltd, Florida). What an ingenious idea. To create a fictional character who sits down with these two great figures from history and [...]
State of Bordeaux 2006
This past December, I took my first trip to ‘wine country’ in a long time, but not the Napa Valley with which so many associate the term, but rather to the shores of Bordeaux, my first trip there as an adult. Could I have possibly been in the wine business for over ten years and [...]
1787…was it even a good year?
I must confess that I experienced a faint sense of schadenfreude on reading Decanter’s (decanter.com) error over their story of the recent sale of the bottle of the 1787 Château d’Yquem. Here it is:
“Ancient Yquem becomes most expensive bottle ever CORRECTION
On 10 February we ran the following story which we have now corrected: the [...]
Wine and walnut pairing…
Still on the subject of food and wine pairing…
I’ve been reading the Diary of Samuel Pepys 1660-1669…again. If you have never done so can I recommend it to you? A fascinating insight into London life in the 17th century. There are a few references to wine (much has been written on these) and I just [...]
Notes from THE CELLAR
I am currently in the middle of my ‘State of Bordeaux’ article that describes my trip to Bordeaux this past December, but it seems like it will be one of those articles that ends up being 30-40 pages! It was indeed an amazing journey, but I am about ten pages into it after day one [...]