Started this morning at Almeida Garrett in the Beira Interior of Portugal – it’s the second time I have visited this region, which makes reds with lovely definition, and at…
On the road in Portugal
Just time for a lightning fast post from the road, hitching onto a winery wireless network. [I’m staying in producers’ homes, rather than hotels, which is great, but does limit…
Off travelling again
I’m in Heathrow Terminal 1, off on some more travels. Just a brief four day trip this time, to Portugal and Spain visiting a number of wineries I’ve not been…
Petaluma Croser 2006 Adelaide Hills
Aussie fizz can be really good, as the sparkling wine session at last year’s Landmark Australia Tutorial showed. This is one of Australia’s more ambitious sparklers, and it’s quite impressive,…
A month after migrating servers, and some decent web stats
It has been a month since I shifted wineanorak.com from its old server to a new one – with decent bandwith allowance and proper webstat reporting (the last one was…
Book review: The Great Domaines of Burgundy
The Great Domaines of Burgundy, by Remington Norman and Charles Taylor. This is a revision of Remington Norman’s classic work on Burgundy, first published in 1992, and then revised in…
Banning salt in New York: the implications for restaurants
Interesting article in The Independent about the proposed bill to ban the use of salt in the kitchens of New York’s restaurants. The motivation? To reduce the salt consumption of…
Sweet wine season, 10: Royal Tokaji’s mythical Essencia
A mythical wine. So sweet it could hardly ferment at all, made from the free run juice from selected botrytized aszu berries. Drunk from a spoon, too. The Royal Tokaji…
More intelligent analysis from Liv-ex, 2009 Bordeaux and the billionaire index
Interesting blogpost here from Liv-ex in which they show an amazingly close correlation between the number of billionaires (according to Forbes’ rich list) and the Liv-ex 100 index of fine wine…