Matching "Burgundy" Tag
In this seemingly endlessly sun-drenched UK summer it is to the crisp and the white that one turns once that radiant star has crept over the yardarm...and one cannot imagine anything quite as suitable as a glass of Chablis for slaking the dust from one's parched tonsils.Like Beaujolais at the opposi…
Dinner at 67 Pall Mall with a most generous and long-standing friend of Bowes Wine on Monday of this week gave an opportunity to taste some celestial wine.After a couple of glasses of '02 Dom Pérignon (thoroughly lovely) the above red was poured. The sommelier had insisted on decanting it and…
Enzo Pontoni - Friulian wine shepherd - amongst his flockThere can be few wine makers so synonymous with all that's best in their region of production than Enzo Pontoni of Miani. Quite simply, the man is an iconoclast.Writing in Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate, Antonio Galloni states: "Ponton…
Meursault church across Puligny vines…plus a Matchbox stick-on van…A blog of my third day in Burgundy, delayed by a day as, after my last appointment last evening, I high-tailed it to Reims, thereby cutting my journey time to the Channel Tunnel by two-and-three-quarter hours.A day of m…
Today started with something of a bang...and I am not referring to the explosion of my malfunctioning peage dongle (see yesterday's blog). The blast to which I am referring relates to the interaction of the finest Côte de Nuits Pinot Noir with my morning-fresh taste buds: a volatile thing inde…
