not drinking poison in paris

A few weeks ago I organised a hilarious and, thankfully, thereafter utterly unrepresentative meal for a visiting friend at Père Lachaise...

If ever you wish to experience an almost out-of-body sense of superfluousness, visit the January Loire salons and tell the natural winem...

The evening before our visits with newly-installed Anjou vigneron  Cédric Garreau and the rest of the Angevin clan back in January, my...

From L: Kenji Hodgson, Cedric Garreau, M, Mai Sato, Nicolas Bertin, J. Taken in Bertin's vineyards. After departing from La Dive...

I have to thank my friend the natural Loire vigneron François Blanchard and his brother J3* for their high spirits and admirable fortitude...

My friend Olivier Aubert's 11ème bistro-à-vin Les Trois Seaux is now offering wines at prix caviste on Thursdays. This is a particular...

Among the chief occupational hazards of the wine industry are dinners with many other traveling wine professionals. By the time the plats a...

Besides the wines themselves, the most unforgettable thing about last Saturday's tasting at Clos Rougeard was mustachioed winemaker Na...

I had the tremendous good fortune this past weekend to be invited by my friends J and C on a road trip to several enormous wine tastings in...

Last Saturday the intended cosy casual dinner for two or three with my friend D eventually (and happily) turned into a roving thirsty party...