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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.
Vosne in the morning sunI drove to Bristol airport yesterday afternoon in a haze of tiredness. For various reasons - largely child related - I had accumulated three partially sleepless nights and I had car windows open as I drove along the A420 towards Bristol. The road cuts high over the valley in …
The first of my captures: a hen fish of c. 8.5lbI travelled to Wales on Wednesday for a few hours of fishing the upper Wye. I have known this stretch of river for many years - since I was 16 or so - and it is where I started to learn to fly fish. It is also where I caught my first salmon.I had been …
A kune-kune pig at our local farm. The breed is considered maori and was very rare until it found a sponsor who bought as many as possible in New Zealand and started a breeding program. Beautiful they ain'tWe've been tasting/drinking more wines that have appeared on Bowes Wine offers in the past. It…
Daymer Bay, looking up the estuary towards PadstowThe road to Cornwall from north Wiltshire is paved with many things, not least some pretty ropy old tarmac. But it is also hemmed in by what seems to be dozens of National Trust properties and, being members of that venerable organisation, we decided…
The ghillie tails a hen salmonGoing to Scotland for a single day's fishing in the expectation of grassing a salmon is optimistic to say the least, so it was in anticipation of a good meal and some fine wines, as well as a session of casting practice on the River Tweed that I set out for London, ther…
