It was the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw who wrote “He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches” in his 1903 play Man and Superman. Clearly the wine merchant finds the otherwise welcome diktat by Shaw something of a quandary when applied to the demands of modern...
Firstly, the Observer magazine food section, where restaurant critic Jay Rayner had written a eulogy to all things porcine including ham, bacon, crackling, belly and chops. I was in full agreement with his fond portrayal of nose to tail cuisine including pork...
The flurry of invitations to fly into Bordeaux airport for a day or two of claret tasting, appears to have become yet another victim of my daily engagement with recessionary forces. Gone, it seems, are the days when mortals of the wine world such as I were courted for...
The History of Wine. “The History of Wine cannot be separated from the history of humanity. Wine, fruit of the vine and the labour of man, is no mere drink. Companion to man throughout the ages, wine contains something of the sacred and something of the profane. It is...
Bordeaux is the largest and most famous fine wine region in the world. Bordeaux, is situated in south west France, close to the Atlantic ocean, in an area dominated by the rivers Dordogne and Garonne, both feeding into the mighty Gironde Estuary making this one...
