Doesn’t a month fly by? Though I suppose I’ll be paying for it for a little more than one month to come.

NZ (only south island) was very special, and over the next days I will certainly subject you to some of my holiday snaps, but in the meantime, a couple of new-ish stories that might just keep you going.

• Serena Sutcliffe visits Burgundy
• And Laurent Ponsot on real and unreal wine
• Of-course it’s old news to you, but still relatively new to me that Antonio Galloni has parted with the Wine Advocate. It is still too early to decide how good a critic of Burgundy wines AG is, but let’s see how he gets on with his new ‘vehicle‘. His site seems to position AG as the product, rather than the liquid thing we want to learn about…

And now for a trip into the cellar. Back soon…