For Canard
I absolutely adore ducks; I’ve nibbled on their webs and sucked on their tongues in Chinese palaces. I’ve eaten their livers “with some fava beans and a nice Chianti” in Italian cucinas....
Wynns of Change
The 95
I have a great fondness for the Coonawarra region, heavily influenced by the fact that I worked many vintages there at Leconfield winery in the '90s. I would work...
အင်းလေးမှာရွာတဲ့မိုး- Inle Mar Ywar Dae Moe, (the rain in Inle)
The Morning Road
I have been coming to Inle Lake every month since 2019, with an interval during COVID 19, I cannot begin to describe how...
WOW: Wine of the Week
I am harvesting the value-for-money end of offerings as we commence the season to be jolly, a time of year that can be delightful on the palate, a strain...
Chateau Angélus Grand Vin Blanc
For wine enthusiasts the world over Chateau Angélus needs little introduction, one of the greatest Right Bank Chateau in the the region; the de Bouard de La Forest family...
Viña Vik-torious
I recently had the pleasure of tasting wines of Vina VIK at the Ming Room in Phnom Penh, with the vivacious and perspicacious Caroline Fanet, Export Manager for Europe & SE Asia....
The Smoking Duck
There is smoked duck and then there is what Pepe Alfonso Raimundo does with duck.
There is smoke obviously, I imagine there must be some chanting and invocations, possibly some dancing around flames...
Le Dome
‘The Garagistes’
Change occurs slowly in Bordeaux, many would argue that very little has changed in centuries. However, in the 1990s, after Bordeaux’s right bank had been in something akin to the...