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The Cook, the Coach, the Wife and a Love of Wine
The Cook, the Coach, the Wife and a Love of Wine
The Valentine’s Day Massacre
An invitation from Cambodia’s Wine Warehouse team was simply too good to refuse; a wine pairing dinner at the...
Wine
Bordeaux, Asia Tour 2022
Bordeaux, Asia Tour 2022 - Maison Ginestet - Warehouse
Tasted on the 39th floor of the Rosewood Hotel, Phnom Penh Cambodia on the 25th of November 2022
Chateau Les Carmes Haut Brion – Pessac Leognan
The property...
Culture
The Art of Camembert
The Art of Camembert
“Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-hearted, but memorable!”
Michael Leunig
It was over half a century ago, 1966...
Culture
The Cardinal’s Slipper
The Cardinal’s Slipper
Pantoufle du Cardinal
“Wine is the intellectual part of a meal while meat is the material.”
Alexandre Dumas
Dumas
The name Alexandre Dumas is writ large across French history through the late 18th and the 19th...
Culture
Il Mangera le Riche
Il Mangera le Riche - Révolution and Food
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Voltaire
Fête Nationale Française, (known as Bastille...
Culture
All Dressed Up in a Sour Place
All Dressed Up in a Sour Place
"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."
William Shakespeare
The taste of Place
The French term Choucroute Garni, means ‘dressed...
Culture
The Black Prince and a Hill of Beans
The Black Prince and a Hill of Beans
“Cassoulet, like life itself, is not so simple as it seems.”
-Paula Wolfert
The Black Prince
The prince was born Edward of Woodstock, into the House of Plantagenet and...
Wine
A Wine of the Timeless Wind
Eternity
He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy
He who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sunrise
William Blake - 1757-1827
The Beast
Provence is a geological masterpiece millions of years in the...