“I drink wine when I’m happy and when I’m sad. Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone. When I have company, it’s a must. When I’m hungry, I have a sip. And when I’m not, I do the same. Except...
Curnonsky, the Prince of gastronomy, used to say that the easiest person to please was the gourmet, because “we love all good things”. Some years later, Winston Churchill said something similar in an anecdote worth every detail. Once when he was...
It’s a bottle with a secret blend that has many benefits. It originates in a Scottish tale; but it does exist, it is real, it surprises and satisfies you. Baptized as Drambuie (the drink that satisfies), it’s used to honor...
During December sitting in front of a bottle of Champagne, any one of these doubts will always come to mind; if not your mind, then anyone else’s. Many questions remain unanswered because Champagne is a very well kept labyrinth… where...
Modern-day seduction Bars have moved on and left a lot of people misplaced, bewildered when buying. It’s the first conclusion one comes to after two days at the “experts and connoisseurs” symposium last month in Milan. It was a very...
Tony Soprano never arrived for the pousse-café Sometimes silence becomes present at drawn-out dinner conversations, now that the end of 2019 is dawning. After the ubiquitous comments regarding recent current events, people expect you, as a connoisseur, to talk about...
Some thoughts on Figure, Wine, and Hope Hopes sits at the table, talks about hope, cooks, longs for wine; it’s the essential food for the brain, the heart, and lifestyles. If you don’t think it’s that important, push it...
Don’t look at the turkey; look at the people you’re with at the table. That truism on harmony was affirmed in 1985 by Hugh Johnson, the renowned British wine master who had an encyclopedic knowledge about alternatives. The most traditional...
The secret of a great wine taster is not as most people imagine, his reputed olfactory memory; it’s his curiosity. Because it’s curiosity that keeps taste alive It urges you to compare, explore, and venture. It awakens your own taste,...
