Goodbye La Maison
“We walk about under a load of memories which we long to share and somehow never can.”
― George Orwell, Burmese Days
La Maison Birmane
For ten to fourteen days of almost every month for...
အင်းလေးမှာရွာတဲ့မိုး- Inle Mar Ywar Dae Moe, (the rain in Inle)
The Morning Road
I have been coming to Inle Lake every month since 2019, with an interval during COVID 19, I cannot begin to describe how...
Medals to Myanmar
Myanmar winery Red Mountain Estate has won two medals at the recently concluded 2024 International Wine & Spirit Challenge, one of the world’s most important and respected wine competitions, held...
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...
Que Syrah, Shiraz
From the roasted slopes of the Northern Rhone to the ancient vines of the Barossa Valley Syrah, (as it is known in France) or Shiraz, (as it is called in...
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...
