Archive for 2010

A view from the top; a feast for the eyes from the heights above BlagnyThibault Morey was in typically relaxed mood when we arrived for a tasting of the wines of Domaine Morey-Coffinet at 09h00 this morning. Why shouldn't he be? His family own a beautiful house over large vaulted cellars (where one …

Etienne Grivot on sparkling form as we taste his 2009 vintageI flew into Geneva from London City airport last evening and what an excellent service. City airport is easily accessible via the DLR and inside is quiet and a quite reasonable place to while away an hour or so as one waits to depart.Havin…

A waterfall in the Dubai MallArrived in Dubai late on Friday night to find the temperature up at a muggy 33 C or so and things have continued in much the same vein.Yesterday I lunched in a restaurant called Eau Zone at the Royal Mirage One and Only Resort, my fellow luncher a New Zealander who is…

The River Test at Wherwell where trout run bigI am lucky to have fished the River Test twice in the last month or so, in the first instance at Broadlands, where the lower river is broad and, on our visit, brightly sparkling under clear skies and bright, late summer sunlight.These are tricky condit…

A merry, if slightly liverish, band by the black waters of the FindhornThe dust has settled; the fallout, having attained its half-life, now outwith its span of toxicity. The mighty John Buchan Food and Wine Society has convened for its annual get-together in the midge-infested Far North…and …