A Harvest of the Heart (updated)

Marie-Pierre Lallez and her sister Emmanuelle are the driving force behind the family wine business of Vignobles Raguenot, owners and operators of the Bordeaux Chateaux des Tourtes in Blaye and Haut Beyzac in the...

River Daze

  Kampot is without doubt one of the most beautiful places in the kingdom; an old, sleepy, pretty little town on the banks of a quiet river, set between mist covered mountains and a sea...

Crema of the Crop

We do not get to see many quality North American wines in Cambodia, demand has always seemed low and the effort to develop a market for such wines has quite frankly, just not been...

Liquid Gold

There are few spirits that stir the emotions like Rum: light or dark it is the drink of patriots and revolutionaries alike. Here in Phnom Penh, in the warren like lanes of the Bassac...

Burgundy Rising in South East Asia

  Cambodians love their Bordeaux reds; wines that are big, bold and full bodied are just fine, as long as they come from the Left or the Right banks of the Gironde River in the...

Chill

  April 2016 is already being reported as the hottest month ever recorded in the Kingdom of Wonder, few in the capital will be surprised by the news. Phnom Penh has withered under a combination...

Top of the Pops

  The Italian restaurant Pop Café da Giorgio sits in an unobtrusive shop house on the Riverfront, just a few doors down from the Foreign Correspondents Club; it is an institution in the Penh, much...

An Elegant Aside

The Penfolds wine company is one of the oldest and most prestigious names in Australian winemaking, famous throughout the world for their big, bold Barossa Valley red wines made from varieties such as Shiraz,...