No Ice Wine in Iceland
Well, maybe there is. But here’s the question: what wine are they drinking in Iceland? Simple answer – they are drinking beer. More comprehensive answer
Travel Tips
Secrets of Right Bank Bordeaux
This is where it all changes. Close to where it all began. The Gironde Estuary – the widening river mouth of southwest France that flows
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
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
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
The Magic called Dingle
As a break from writing about people who work in the world of wine, I’ll share a quick story about people enjoying wine and food
Searching for the Maltese Falcon
In the year 1530, driven by Saracens from their home on the island of Rhodes, the Knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem
A Book and a Bottle – The Middle East Meets Australia
It’s time again to deviate from talking about the characters in my forthcoming book Vino Expressions – People, Wine, and Loving Work, and match a book
