Archive for January 2014

The hills of the Barbaresco commune, with the Rabaja vineyard in the foregroundThe landscape of this part of Italy lies like great folds of earthy cloth, so perfectly summing up the word foothills that the name Piemonte slips over the vineyards like a glove.The weather, for our visit, was consi…

N.B. I have given up attempting to load a photograph of the day's activities as the local connection doesn't appear to be up to the task. We blew into Alba after dark last evening and there was cold rain falling as we rose this morning, rain that had tuned into wet snow during the course of our brea…

Not the right vintage, but to give you an idea of the Celtic nature of the labelling hereBack when the world was wearing short trousers and its mother was wiping smuts from its rosy cheeks with a portion of spittle-soaked hankie, back when Bowes Wine was taking its first wobbly steps, giraffe calf-l…