A video by Jack and Nancy Haar. I’m particularly chuffed with this video. It was put together by Jack and Nancy Haar, who joined us on a self-guided tour of the Loire Valley last September. It’s very simple, a collection…
I’ve uploaded a video of our Bordeaux Winetrail to Youtube. That’s the video embedded above, just click to watch, courtesy of Roberto Peixoto. I’ve picked out 5 personal highlights to share with you. 1. A visit to Château Tiregand. At…
Win an Oopsmark Bicycle Wine Rack Way back in May we had a competition as an excuse to give away some cool-looking wine bottle carriers from Oopsmark, in Montreal. Our season tends to knock the stuffing out of my newsletter…
Win an Oopsmark Bicycle Wine Rack! Why choose now for a competition? Because I found a really cool prize, and I needed a good excuse to give three of them away. So what is this uber-cool prize? It’s the Oopsmark…
A Great Photo Collection From Burgundy, by Sinclair Shuit. Earlier in April I was delighted to stumble across a collection of photos that I’d forgotten about, taken by Sinclair Shuit in Burgundy in 2013. I think this is a great…
For 2016 we have a new tour – Alsace. Alsace is way over in the east of France, sharing a border with Germany. France and Germany have played ‘pass-the-parcel’ with Alsace for centuries, and the fusion of French and German…
Forget about the wine for a moment This isn’t really about the wine, it’s about great cycling, beautiful scenery and a fantastic bike path. The vineyards of Alsace stretch in a line running north to south from Strasbourg almost to…
One of France’s Most Important Wine Regions Alsace has a huge wine-making tradition dating back centuries. If you can picture the region, its bordered on the East by the river Rhine and on the West by the Vosges mountains. The…
Back in the Eighties there was a fabulous animated version of The Wind In The Willows, featuring David Jason as Toad. I bought quite a few sets as gifts for children and adults, I thought they were hilarious. I’ve no…
Last week was the April edition of Ruth Alexander-Gordon’s new wine-tasting club in Balham, south west London. She’s called it ‘Wines, Vines and Good Times’, or something like that. Not sure about the name, but we spent an evening tasting…
