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Santa Sofia Ripasso 2007
I’m convinced I’ve got some Italian blood pumping through my veins. Maybe my mother’s kept a dark secret from me all these years. When I’m out grazing, it’s nearly always in Italian restaurants. Even...
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Skouras Moschofilero 2010
How they’ll perform in London next year…what a spectacle….fast, furious focused and, yes, fatigued. Those athletes from all edges of the planet, will dazzle, delight and dignify the devotees of the...
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HOPE ESTATE Verdelho 2005
Once upon a time in Portugal and on the island of Madeira lived a grape called Verdelho. There’s not much of this grape being planted in that part of the world any longer. But amazingly enough it’s...
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Find Your Wine Companion and Have a Sparkling Summer
If you’ve been locked in your wine cellar for the past few months and have finally come up for air, let me be the first to welcome you to the sweaty season. It’s a season that I, for one, can’t deal...
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Johnny Depp AWOL with Leon Beyer Pinot Blanc
I think I need a holiday. I mean a serious break, maybe say, a few years away. Not from this column, mind you. Not even from America. I mean a long holiday on Mars or Neptune or Alpha Centauri. I am...
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Hope Estate Shiraz 2009
Hope Estate produces wines with the typical Aussie twinkle in their eyes but also a mature intensity to their deceivingly complex character. This, for me, is the allure of Australian wine. It takes...
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Autumnal Wining
The falling leaves drift by my window, The falling leaves of red and gold, I see your lips, the summer kisses, The sunburned hands I used to hold. The days are getting a little cooler, the ice cream...
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Holiday Cheers!
I always slip into the Holiday season with a glass of fizz and a delicately cut tray of smoked salmon sandwiches on slim slices of white bread spread with a layer of Danish “Lurpak” or “Plugra” brand...
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Hogue Cellars Late Harvest White Riesling
OK, it’s no secret that my favourite grape variety in the entire world, is the Riesling. It’s what wine is all about. The very essence of wine appreciation. A grape with so much subtle nuance, it could...
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Santa Sofia Ripasso 2007 (Veneto, Italy)
I’m convinced I’ve got some Italian blood pumping through my veins. Maybe my mother’s kept a dark secret from me all these years. When I’m out grazing, it’s nearly always in Italian restaurants. Even...
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