The Lugano Collection
Last month, I took a weekend trip to Europe to inspect a major European collection. I was able to negotiate to be able to offer wines from this extensive collection through our retail operation, offerings that will start this week and continue over the next month as organized by era. The cellar is that vast [...]
Whilst on the subject of Yquem…
Just a day or so ago we posted our latest podcast from People in Wine. This is an interview with Alexandre de Lur Saluces whose family married into the estate over a couple of hundred years ago and who was running Yquem for thirty years up until the beginning of the new millenium. The questions [...]
1787…was it even a good year? /continued…
As I was saying…
The news that a bottle of wine had been sold for a staggering $90,000 swept around the world as if it had been poured into a glass and swirled around and around. The original press release which seemed to have gone through a number of mutations on various web sites [...]
Chocolate more beneficial than wine…
Whilst cruising around for various bits of research I came across some good news for wine lovers who like to eat chocolate too… It appeared on a research web site, and I have given the credit at the bottom of this entry:
“Researchers: chocolate is good for your heart
A team of researchers from the University of [...]
Pinot: the parties of the second part…
Well, the second part has been out a week or so. We have interviews with Jacky Barthelmè (Alsace, France), Paul Fürst (Germany), Joe Davis (California) and Michel Bettane. You can listen to it either through iTunes (and other podcatchers) or by clicking on our customised radio player either on the right hand side on Blog [...]
Dubai or not Dubai…
We were recently in receipt of the following email at the office of Wine Industry Report.
< < aida wrote:
You should stop 4th Dubai International Wine & Beverage Fair, there are more than 100 non muslim country to make ur fair their, why did u choose muslims and arabic countries, you know that drinking [...]