by Caspar Bowes
Scottish hill, beneath which we walked last weekendWe are coming to the end of a drawn out 2010 Burgundy campaign, during which I have attempted to hold clients' interest through a series of single-producer mini-offers: something I am trialling for the first time this year. Why? Well, my goal and in…
Dressed for the weather on The MallTwice I caught the train to London last week and twice walked across a frozen Hyde Park to my destination, in the first instance the Westbury Hotel off Bond Street, secondly the Institute of Directors on Pall Mall. Both were good walks. And the first day, the sky w…
The terroir of the departed, Savigny-lès-BeauneBurgundy is a magical, mystical place for wine merchant and aficionado alike, source of some of the world's most stunning wines, at best extraordinarily scintillating amalgams of the most beautiful fruit and profound terroir. It's also a place - …
Looking towards central across the lake in Hong Kong ParkI have just arrived in Singapore, a place which looked bright enough during my taxi ride into town, but the firm splatter of raindrops against my hotel rooom window showed its real intentions re the weather.Hong Kong was busy, starting with a …
A sample of Fixin awaiting our attention outside the Domaine Mortet in Arnaud's absenceI didn't get a chance to pen a post on either my penultimate or final day in Burgundy. Dinner kept me out late for the former, and a woeful collection of misadventures ensured a tardy finish my last night, deliver…
