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I have just touched down in Beaune after an uneventful drive.The day started very cold in Wiltshire: minus five or so, giving a heavy ground frost and a car that needed to clear its throat on starting and then a good 10 minutes to warm through and clarify the overnight situation with its windows.Jus…

The late afternoon light falls on a Powys hillI was in Wales on Monday and Tuesday this week striding out over the hillsides. The weather was messing about, forcing us to squint in crystal sunshine one minute, then blackening the sky and pelting us with hard snow pellets the next; pellets that were …

Reynard suspects that she has an audience, but it doesn't put her off her huntThere was a fine-looking vixen in the field behind our cottage this morning, quartering the long grass slowly, listening attentively, occasionally performing great leaps onto scurrying things that it desired for its break…

Beech roots and leaves at Danebury RingWe have been tasting a large number of wines of late, both at home and at various supplier tastings. Our brief has widened with the launch of The Daily Drinker, so that we are now keeping 'em peeled for yes, those wines that will rise, like loaves in the baking…

Joseph wants Isabella to participate in his line-dancing homework. She doesn't really like it, but capitulates under duressI've long been aware that there are heaps of superb wines imported into the UK that simply aren't selling. One can sympathise with the buyers of these wines. They're touring Ita…