Burma

    When the Vintage is Over Today -under enormous adversity it must be said- we picked the last grapes of the 2024 vintage, in Shan State Myanmar. A miserly crop, but the fruit is mostly good, some...

  The Rangoon Tea House and Me   “Monsieur Thirsty Bedford” In my travels in Indochina, I had been given an identification paper describing me as Louis (sic) Norman, writer, commissioned by Jonathan Cape Limited of Thirty...

   “This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about.” George Orwell, Burmese Days As we prepare to release the 2022 Reserve Pinot Noir, I take a moment to reflect on the...

Shan State Myanmar's amazing produce  Sitting under a clear blue sky, on a cool day in the vineyard, perched between the mountains and the lake; a waft of morning mist still lazily crawling up the...

Mandalay’s Medicinal Tincture Dr. Weizza Prescription Gin From a small batch still in Mandalay, comes this potent potion of pure essence, infused with a veritable apothecary of botanicals and aromatics, divined by a Se...