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This is the blog of wine merchant and communicator, Caspar Bowes. Caspar's blog features reports on new vintages, new vinous discoveries and his general musings on the world of wine.
What looks like pure Highland air is alive with the buzzing of tiny maneatersI've just returned from the north of Scotland and feel as though I have lost weight, despite the fact that we ate and drank very well in the sizeable and highly comfortable lodge in which we found ourselves staying. The rea…
Campanula pyramidalis comes up in a different spot every year and is a rather pretty antidote to the rainAs was summer 2007, so is the same season in '08, just without the beautiful April preceding it. The sun is an infrequent visitor, clouds our more regular heavenly companions. I look out at the …
We count ourselves among the lucky. We have some exceptionally kind friends. And two of them visited last weekend, bringing themselves, a trio of pretty plants for our gardens and some extraordinary bottles. The Mrs half of the couple also brought along some Hopi ear candles with which to extract bl…
Blimey. I retasted, last night, the first pink champagne that we've ever shown on our drinking wine list and, boy, it's a goodie: one of those wines that provokes a further thought or observation with each new sip. Far from being frivolous, pink champagne can offer up something of a transcendental e…
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01 July 2008
Joseph finds ice cream perfect for maintaining a baby-soft complexionGreece is very hot at the moment. I know this because we have just returned from a fortnight in Kos. The thermometer topped out at 37C on a day when a high wind roared up from Egypt and smothered us like a gust from the roasting ov…
