Bourgogne Rouge Bedeau, Domaine de Chassorney

This is what natural wine is all about, a probing examination of terroir and the Pinot Noir grape in all its naked beauty

A TOUCH OF GLASS - The Transparent World of Arc International

Wherefore to Dover?

We were off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of glass, at the world’s largest glass factory (all genuflect) located in the town of Arques, near Calais.

Aesthetics and the Creative Response

What is truth? said Jesting Pilate. And, in the same breath, we could ask: “What is beauty?” (But we should stay for the answer.)

Schlossed On Alpine Dew - The Wines of Weingut Unterortl

Although I enjoy wine at home (just as bears wear funny shaped hats) I admit that I don’t really taste it. A shocking confession; surely in my “neck of work” my palate should be on the eternal qui-vive, poised and exquisitely critical. Well, sod that for a game of spillikins because when I relax gravity and levity propel the liquid down the gullet barely washing the sides of the throat and the brain is virtually always terminally disengaged.

Through a glass darkly

“Your wines are obscure” was an accusation formerly levelled at us, as if we had wilfully sourced grape varieties that were off the map of human knowledge, and sought to promulgate exclusively recherché wines in order to bamboozle all and sundry. One of our growers even bottles his wines with the tag vigneron non conformé on the label. Oh, to be different etc…

quote of the day

Believe the animated chef…