As you park up on a rainy evening in Winter, skip blindly across the gravel car park of your local hostelry trying to avoid ever widening puddles, you manage one purposeful bound and enter the snug bar to dry warmth and liquid conviviality. From his appointed seat at...
Introduction Burgundy, named Bourgogne in French, is Bordeaux’s eastern partner in the global world of fine wines. Burgundy encompasses a number of famous regions riddled with contradiction and complexity. The overall region to be examined this week runs north to...
The Rhône provides similarities with the Loire Valley rather than Bordeaux or Burgundy, in that it produces many wine types, from red white and rosé, still and sparkling, as well as one of the world’s most popular sweet wines. But as the Loire has become famous for...
Although my recent article on Masterchef clearly divided opinion, and as much as I would wish to share my less than flattering thoughts on Greg Wallace’s new restaurant in London as a result, I will now have to wait as I defer willingly to a number of requests for...
Alsace A long thin area running roughly North to South in North East France, separated from Germany by the River Rhine and the rest of France by the Vosges Mountains. Due to the shelter of the mountain range the region is comparatively warm with one of the driest...
