The Po River basin is the food bowl of Italy, in its heart is the region of Emilia Romagna and it is here you will find ‘Il cibo di re e angeli’, (the food...
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Masanobu Fukuoka (1913 –2008) was a Japanese farmer and philosopher, he was a trained microbiologist and agricultural scientist and after completing his education he...
I noted with interest that a special 20th anniversary edition of John Ralston Saul’s jeremiad, ‘Voltaire’s Bastards’ had been released, a book that provoked in me a great deal of thought when I first...
“In vino veritas, (in wine, truth)”
― Pliny the Elder
As we approached the end of the second millennium, huge growth in wine production in some countries saw a sort of industrialization of grape growing,...
“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Consumer preferences in wine are a bit like hem-lines in the fashion industry, just as sure as they will rise, they...
A list of the requirements to live a happy life:
Freedom
Self Sufficiency
Friendship
Thought
Wine
Bread & Cheese
-Epicurus,
(#Note: Epicurus was an avowed teetotal, the author here has substituted wine for water)
The Ancient Greek philosopher and founder...
Tim Belcourt looks the part of an outlaw biker, a long white handlebar moustache gives him the appearance of a grizzled walrus, tattoos cover his forearms, there are lasting scars, on the inside as...
I have just returned from Vinexpo in Hong Kong, where I was invited by my friend and colleague Robert Joseph, (of Le Grand Noir Wines) to attend an insightful presentation he called, ‘The Future...
