A D V E R T I S E M E N T
Asides
p.ox denial…
Producers in denial as blight leaves some French white wines ‘almost undrinkable’
Hardly a major exposé, but the generalist wine-writing cliques are slowly catching-on…
tim atkin and bras…
Well I expect that I have a unique subject title in the internet world – today at least…
Maybe you will recall that I bemoaned the ‘loss’ of Tim Atkin (he of the broad grin) to ‘newspaper’ (everything is anyway on the internet) writing. Well he got a new job pretty quickly with ‘The Times’. [...]
infos…
Aubert is the man
1990s
weekend reading…
Something short and interesting:
Are you one of the anti-flavour elite?
You read it here first, didn’t you
Something a little longer and a little picturesque – longer to download too as it’s 10.3mb – it’s from another place of-course, but then there wouldn’t be room for any of that in Burgundy would there(?)
what makes a wine “classic” ?
Matt Kramer has the answer…
some time off…
I am now (Eurotunnel permitting) on holiday, and not back until Jan 6th – so only tumbleweed around here for the next days…
Cheers !!!
stylish bordeaux?
I know that this is in the ‘wrong’ place, but I think it cuts rather a dash – don’t you?
hi, i’m matt and i’m…
This made me laugh today…
very deep pockets
I assume so anyway…
(getting warmer)
“Burgundy has got bigger and riper,” wine writer Robert Joseph told Reuters. “Alsace, in North East France, which used to make very light red wine, now makes much fuller red wine. Germany which used to very light red wine, is now making fuller red wine.”
Here…
auctions and buying ‘old’ wine
You know that ‘provenance’ – i.e. knowing somethings ownership history – is not just a special thing when buying older (for which I class everything that has been on the market for more than 2 years!) wine, it is everything! That’s not because I’m particularly concerned about where the seller got the bottles from [...]
what news of france?
A good article from Panos…
And the chance to buy some mature wine…
Paris’ landmark Tour d’Argent restaurant is cleaning out its 450,000-bottle winecellar “one of the best in the world” and putting 18,000 bottles up for auction in December
