The Thin Red Line

Last week, Tim Herrmann from Yalumba winery passed through Phnom Penh, ostensibly to host a remarkable lunch of fine Australian wines at the regal, Le Royal restaurant. Yalumba is Australia’s oldest, continuously operating, family owned...

21 Gun Salute

Royal Salute is a premium blended whiskey produced by Chivas Regal, the youngest material used in the blend has been matured for 21 years, a considerable age compared to others and prompting the slogan...

Legends Lunch

Friday the 19th of February 2016 will always be a memorable day, mostly because of a rather remarkable lunch. A small band of industry rouges and reprobates like myself gathered at midday at Le...

Wine Trends 2016

  Bróse There was a time, not so long ago, that drinking Rose was something to be ashamed of. It was usually what your mother drank and -to put it plainly- a bit of a girly...

Sturm und Drang – William Fevre Chablis

  Black Holes in space are said to be places where gravity is so strong that even time stops and succumbs to its density, so to do whole universes, collapsed in on each other and...

An Organoleptic Aesthetic

  “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” ― Pablo Picasso What commonly happens in the restaurant is that a guest will take command of the...

Piscatorial Vino

On Food and Wine Pairing "In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well-being and delight. Drinking wine was not a...

Clos Fourtet

  The 1er Grand Cru Classé property, Clos Fourtet was a defensive fort erected sometime during the middle ages. It sits opposite the entrance to the old town of Saint Emilion and above some of...

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