Wine
Aroma Therapy
The end of Cambodia’s most pleasant of weather seasons has arrived; the ‘Windy Season’, ( as it is known locally) is a delightful time of year where the day temperatures are relatively mild, evening...
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Food
Asia Noir
There is no written law that decries you must drink a certain wine with a certain dish or, that wine consumption has to be accompanied by any food at all. There are also no...
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Wine
Finding Nero
Homer and Virgil sent Odysseus and Aeneas to her island shores; there they encountered harpies, Cyclops, Laestrygonians, sirens and Aeolia, the God of Winds. This is a place where The Gods broker deals with...
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Wine
Wine Speak
…mintiness with peaches and strawberries …a chocolate smokiness with leathery insinuations …hessian …apes and peacocks …and a faint, elusive yet startling aroma of wine…”
- Michael Leunig, cartoonist
Thus describes the bewilderment, exasperation and downright skepticism...
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Wine
Wine into Water
Ronald Brown is the owner of the remarkably overachieving South Australian winery Maverick, in the Barossa Valley. The winery is aptly named, Brown is every bit the Maverick.
Described by eminent Australian wine writer James...
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Food
For Canard
I absolutely adore ducks; I’ve nibbled on their webs and sucked on their tongues in Chinese palaces. I’ve even eat their livers “with some fava beans and a nice Chianti” in Italian cucinas.
Just about...
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Food
Days of Wine and Spices
Darren Gall, puts out the fire of spice in his mouth with the requisite wines.
“The year was 1968. We were on recon in a steaming Mekong Delta. An overheated private removed his flak jacket,...
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Wine
Putting out the Bins
Penfold’s Bin, Icon & Luxury Brands Wine Release 2013
The annual Penfold’s release of its wines is a significant date in the annual wine calendar. When it includes a vintage like 2010 then the market...
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