I recently opened a book from my collection in the office and noted that it was published in the very year that I joined the wine trade.
I had just quit a promising career with IBM and felt that the...
Malbec grapes have been grown in the area known as Cahors in France for many centuries and we carry five from the best-known producer.
This, however, will not be about those wines as World Malbec Da...
I’m not sure how many fishcakes it takes to get one kite in the air, but I am thinking of next Friday and the baked ham on Easter Sunday; let me suggest a few wines.
The Bastianich family has been one...
As we only have two weeks left before local lobster season ends, I made sure that I took two home this past weekend.
Although a politically charged word in our small country at this time, may I sugg...
Fear not, I am not joining in the Armageddon, or end of times debate, but merely referring to a windswept, cool and lonely land that is far, far away — the weather here for early March has given me th...
There are two things that should be remembered about the wine known as sauternes: always put the “s” on the end, even if you are referring to a single bottle and never pronounce the final “s”.
In the ...
Lamb is such a wine-accommodating meat that it is almost confusing if you ask Google for suggestions.
Up pops various areas of France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Argentina, Chile, USA and even Australia...
I am far more comfortable calling the very dark wines from the Cahors area “black” than calling our world’s pale yellow, light green or golden ones “white”.
Many, many years ago I remember an inciden...
It was back in 2006 that the owner of Chateau D’Esclans, Sasha Lichine, made the wise decision to hire Patrick Léon.
This world-renowned winemaker, who previously worked at Chateau Mouton Rothschild,...
I love to look at our old Watercolours of Bermuda that were painted by a distant cousin, and if I play Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique for the hundredth time, it still brings tears to my eyes.
But what abo...
