My Dinner with Mario

As the Northeast USA sunk beneath the worst blizzard in memory (beating in Philadelphia, the old record snowfall by over nine inches), I remembered how much more fun the last...

Read More
Henschke Hill of Grace

With a rise in demand and premiums paid nowadays for ‘terroir’ wines – hallowed drops that can be traced back to their place merely by the character they exude -...

Read More
If You Can’t Take The Heat...Bordeaux 1947

Ask Michel Rolland his philosophy towards picking and I would wager my children’s toys (both of them) that he will cite the 1947 Bordeaux vintage as proof that late-picked fruit...

Read More
Great Wall, Great KFC & Great Pomerol

Have you ever been shot at point blank range by an opera singer? It happened to me in Beijing. Sitting within a few feet of one of China's most celebrated...

Read More
Wine In the Time of War

Despite Edwin Starr's sage advice that war is good for absolutely nothing, mankind's wilful ignorance and boundless stupidity means that we still cannot resist a 'good old' war. In 2014...

Read More
Guigal

One of the reference point estates for top quality wines in the world today, the family-run Guigal operation was created in 1946 by Etienne Guigal. Today, Etienne's son, Marcel, and...

Read More
RN74, Seattle

This is one of my favorite restaurants in Seattle and I continue to eat here once or twice a year. It has an upscale, yet casual feel and the food...

Read More
Jade Palace, Singapore

Located in the basement of a shopping mall, this small Cantonese restaurant was recommended to me by my colleague, Lisa Perrotti-Brown. I liked it so much, I went back for...

Read More
Magdalena Restaurant - The Ivy Hotel

By and large, the California Chardonnays performed overall better than the white Burgundies, although I was super-impressed with Louis Latour's 2009 Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru White Burgundy, with loads of quince,...

Read More
South African Winemaker's Teenage Anthems

"If music be the food of love, play on," observed Bill Shakespeare. Obviously, this was before Celine Dion, so I can forgive him (just). Personally, I find a more intimate...

Read More
Loading…