Let me share a few recent, and sadly, last words from songwriter Leonard Cohen as I know of no one who could better express loving and being loved: “If the sun would lose its light and we lived an end...
Back in 1970, when I was working with IBM, I remember that we were told to operate on “Lombardi time”. In other words, if a test was scheduled for 8am the next day, you better expect it to start ten m...
We will start our journey just to the North of Los Angeles and end up in Oregon, and the connection will be that the vineyards will all have climates cooled by fog and cold air from the Pacific Ocean....
The year was 1933. Two brothers, aged 23 and 24, rented a small warehouse in Modesto, California for $60 a month and bought some winemaking equipment on credit. Little did they know that, today, their...
My intention today is to show how a strong dollar is allowing us to bring in wines that we may not have considered in the recent past and also how we are able to lower prices on others.
This does no...
Although January is considered by many as a quiet month for business, it is a time of considerable activity for us as we do our best to set a successful path for the new year.
It helps to use the cr...
Champagne
At 2 million bottles, Billecart Salmon, still a family-owned business, rather straddles the line between the biggest well-known brand at 35 million and the boutique “grower champagnes” tha...
For many years I have told the story of how British sailors fortified red Portuguese wines with neutral grape spirits (brandy) so that they could better survive the rough trip to England.
It seems no...
I just love a good curry, and what a diverse range of flavours we encounter here. I inevitably end up with too much on the plate as I am prone to add copious amounts of raisins, cut up banana, peanuts...
If you had asked back in 1990 what were the world’s most widely planted wine grapes, the top five in order would have been: airén, garnacha, rkatsiteli, sultaniye and trebbiano.
Twenty-plus years lat...
