Casablanca, Ulysses, and Sailing to Bordeaux
Annick and Pierre Saturney met in the Moroccan city of Casablanca. They soon married. She was born in Morocco, of parents from Brittany in France
2012
Skip the Wine Bars of Paris?
My Paris wine tasting plans disintegrated. Great luck, really. First, I surfed the Net, then checked FourSquare, then Googled wine bars within a few kilometers
Hemingway and Vikings Long Gone from Paris
This is not the Paris of Hemingway. Of Morse, Fenimore Cooper, or Thomas Jefferson. This is not the Paris of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Woody Allen
Women and Wine
Here are some excerpts from the book Vino Voices, which includes sparks of wisdom whittled from women who bent their backs, tasted bankruptcy, abandoned careers,
Guys and Grapes
Flavio Fennochio – Barolo Winemaker from the Piemonte Region of Italy We receive the grapes from God…There’s a little part of me in this wine.
Wine Bottles and Battles; Crusades and Connections
I pulled out four bottles of wine from a box recently bought from a French friend – Jean Claude – as well as a bottle
Bond, Bangkok, Baja, Burgundy and Bordeaux
I recently had the fortune to fly to Bangkok via Thai Airways from the vibrant city of Lahore, Pakistan. During the redeye flight there was
Google Earth De-Mystifies Burgundy Wine
Last week my friend Robin sent an email from New York: Hey Tom, I saw Meredith and Didier last night, they asked about you, and wanted
Beyond Bordeaux, Burgundy, and – Peru
Years ago, my sister and her German husband-to-be lived in a farmhouse in rural Ireland. There, amid beaten glens on this rain-soaked misty isle, they
An Asian Surprise – Thai Wine
In a supermarket on the Thai island of Koh Samui I spotted a bottle of Thai wine and bought it. It cost about $15 – labelled
