A Tale of Two Chardonnays

I recently had the good fortune to participate in an extraordinary seafood dinner where I was asked to pair specific wines to Seafood dishes involving: Salmon, Tuna, Lobster, Oysters, Crab and shrimp. I paired...

Return of the Jedi

  Winery owner Claude Fournier was recently in Cambodia showcasing some of his extraordinary wines from the regions of Sancerre and Pouilly Fume, in the Loire Valley of France. The area is best known for its...

A Wine at Steak

If you enjoy the earthy spoor of rich mushroom gravy or the piquant kick of a spicy pepper sauce, smeared lovingly over your entrecote, chateaubriand or cote de boeuf, for a suitable wine accompaniment...

The Thin Red Line

Last week, Tim Herrmann from Yalumba winery passed through Phnom Penh, ostensibly to host a remarkable lunch of fine Australian wines at the regal, Le Royal restaurant. Yalumba is Australia’s oldest, continuously operating, family owned...

21 Gun Salute

Royal Salute is a premium blended whiskey produced by Chivas Regal, the youngest material used in the blend has been matured for 21 years, a considerable age compared to others and prompting the slogan...

Legends Lunch

Friday the 19th of February 2016 will always be a memorable day, mostly because of a rather remarkable lunch. A small band of industry rouges and reprobates like myself gathered at midday at Le...

Wine Trends 2016

  Bróse There was a time, not so long ago, that drinking Rose was something to be ashamed of. It was usually what your mother drank and -to put it plainly- a bit of a girly...

Sturm und Drang – William Fevre Chablis

  Black Holes in space are said to be places where gravity is so strong that even time stops and succumbs to its density, so to do whole universes, collapsed in on each other and...

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