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WHY LAUNCH THIS BLOG?
A blog looks like a very good tool for a wine and food journalist - it allows one to share thoughts, opinions, tastings notes... without the screening of a magazine or publisher.This saves time, of...
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Ranking mania
A small clipping from a friendly Belgian site (In Vino Veritas), for those of us who speak Voltaire's language.Demandez le classement!Le grand vainqueur du Top 100 2007 de Wine Spectator est à présent...
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At Waitrose's, English wine sales are up 120% vs 2006 (and English Sparkling wine sales are up 360%). English wines, says the retailer, are n°1 this year for gifts, before the traditional Bordeaux. The...
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Himmel und Erde - Heavenly nectar from Ampleforth's hills
The Benedictine monks of Ampleforth Abbey have been growing apples in North Yorkshire's Howardian Hills for more than two hundred years - but their cider production is a quite recent innovation. The...
View ArticleENGLISH SPARKLING WINE COMES OF AGE
ENGLISH SPARKLING WINE COMES OF AGEIn the time of the Angevin and Plantagenet kings of medieval England (12th to 15th centuries) vineyards flourished as far north as Yorkshire under the keen...
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Hauts Doubs plateau at the gates of Switzerland
Last tuesday I drove up from the rocky outcrops of the Jura (home of vins de terroir with a vengeance) onto the bucolic plateau of the Hauts Doubs, 800 metres above sea level. A little less dramatic...
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