Saturday December 1 Waning, descending moon, time to prune. Monsieur Li starts his long, lonely journey through the vines today, addressing each one of them in person and by hand. He uses old fashioned, heavy secateurs instead of the modern electric ones, for reasons best known to himself. That is how he likes to do it. […]
Friday 2 November Mother and son set off to Holland, first stop Breda, a pretty small town in the south of the country, there to meet up with the owner of Dames Pellens, one of the trendy little restaurants in its historic centre. We walk in and stumble on the wife of the Chef, pouring a bottle of […]
Sunday 7 October, 2018 All the weather we wanted pre-harvest comes post-harvest, full of innocent bonhomie and playfulness. The mountains stand at attention on the horizon, dressed in opiate shades of soft blue, vague purple and the lightest pink, like benevolent guardians. Oh well. We enjoy it for what it is, and not for what […]
Sunday September 2 They just keep coming and coming and we keep enjoying and enjoying for as long as it lasts. We’ve had such wonderful reviews in The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, Decanter, Jancis Robinson and now today, The Sunday Times. All in the space of a month or two. This time it’s our un-oaked […]
Sunday July 1 One of our regular customers in England sends us an email full of effusive congratulations. Then he sends a second email with the reason for the congratulations: copies of the August edition of Decanter Magazine, out today already, apparently. We are absolutely stunned. Of the 30 top white Languedoc wines selected by Rosemary […]