Samai
“Our poets are not rum drinkers; poets arrive much later to recast the scene. It is the rum drinkers who are the risk takers, the romantics, the revolutionaries, the pirates who ride the...
A Wine for One’s Home
Cambodian businessman and entrepreneur Edward Chea has taken a long and somewhat circuitous route to wine. It is a journey that has involved travelling the world over and cultivating...
Tasting with Toto
My dear friend Mr Seila sometimes goes by his digital moniker ‘Bong Toto.’ In Khmer, ‘Bong’ means older brother, though ‘Oun Proh’—younger brother—would be more accurate when I address him.”
Toto is the...
The Bishop with the Bad Hand
The Maury AOC wine region in Roussillon, southwest France, lies deep in rugged Cathar country; It has a rich history of grape growing and wine production dating at...
Tasting with Thibault
A fascinating tasting of Troplong Mondot wines with my old friend and great man of wine, Thibault Odent. Thibault is genuinely funny, irreverent, and cheekily mischievous; tasting wine with him is...
Champagne de Saint Gall
Union Champagne is a winemaking co-operative based in the village of Avize. Champagne de Saint Gall is the name of the Champagnes produced by Union Champagne.
Founded in 1966, it comprises...
On The Bench
I dined in esteemed company last evening, in the private room at the rear of purveyor of fine wine and bon vivant Mr. Vibol Thach’s new wine salon. Vibol is a gentleman...
From Perold’s Garden to Papua New Guinea
An Afrikaner in Papua New Guinea
I was delighted to find myself in Papua New Guinea on the weekend, one of the most disparate places on...
