Tuesday August 1 The weather has been blowing hot and cold. Right now it’s cold in the South of France. And it’s raining in the south of Ireland, where we are. It’s almost a comfort to know that in a world of changes, some things never change. Like Ireland’s weather: full of scattered spells and […]
Monday July 3 2017 Well, this month has started off all in a rush. After a cool and covered week, the sun threatens to shine through again. Or does it? But we do get a nice bit of sunshine from an unexpected source: Scotland. Its leading daily newspaper, The Scotsman, carried a wonderful review of […]
Tuesday May 2 We wind up our visit to New York with a degree of satisfaction: our wines seem to be going down well with the restaurants and wine merchants we meet. They certainly go down well with us – that is, the sommeliers and wine buyers, who buoy us up with their fearless enthusiasm for […]
Proverbial April showers, proverbial April flowers, proverbial April birdsong – the place is full of proverbial April, positively burgeoning, blossoming and blooming – and it is wonderful. Seldom seen an April like it. Even the drabbest, deadest, most dour looking vines are full of fecundity, and positively exuding hope and eternity. Rives-Blanques is alive […]
Thursday 2 March We get home from Zurich just in time for the bottling today. The weather is balmy and springlike. Birds are tweeting and blossoms are blossoming. Couldn’t be better. The bottling goes without a hitch, it’s almost too good to be true. So that means the last of the Pays d’Oc 2016 has […]