Portugal is, just like Greece, one of those countries that I have almost no experience with. An advantage of globalization is the availability of wines from the other side of the world, but the side-effect is the standardization of the offer. International varieties (even if they are almost universally French in […]
Sommelier exams are tomorrow so unfortunately there will be no wine presented this week, sometimes you have to keep your head clear and I think that most of you will agree that wine is not the best road to clarity! I would like to take a brief moment to present Ken […]
For a recent column in Decanter Jane Anson interviewed Michel-Jack Chasseuil, one of the greatest wine collectors in the world. I had come across his name before, namely while browsing through his book ‘100 vintage treasure from the world’s finest wine cellar’. Chasseuil is an obsessive collector and the proud […]
The currently most divisive topic in the wineworld is without a doubt the natural wine movement. You are either for it or against it, and middle ground is seemingly non-existent. Attentive readers may have noticed that I have not really partaken in the whole debate, and I have no intention […]