One of the highlights so far this summer was spending a couple of days in Epernay in Champagne. We stayed in a beautiful B&B just outside Cramant, a small village in the middle of The Côte des Blancs. The house champagne was readily available in the fridge at €11/bottle. Excellent stuff (with no label). It [...]
Read More...Finally, I picked up some wines that I had stored at a friend’s place to transfer to my brothers house, where he kindly lets me borrow a wine fridge. Inevitably I ended up going through each bottle to see which would be suitable with dinner. Most stuff was still to early to drink, but we [...]
Read More...Earlier this summer we spent a week in Cancale, Bretagne, home of some of the greatest farmed oysters in the world. So far I have mainly had champagne with my oysters, typically as a starter in a posh London restaurant or in Parisian bistros. However it turned out that the most local and cheapest wine [...]
Read More...So the catalogue of the Sotheby’s ” Finest and Rarest Wines & Vintage Port” auction has just arrived. It turns out it is absolutely packed with masses of expensive wines (which I could have guessed based on the title), but my oh my is it all mouth watering. There are mainly red wines from Bordeaux, [...]
Read More...At a friends birthday party some 5 years ago now I met a man who told me about a hobby of his, which was to go to wine auctions in the hunt for weird wines and bargains. That thought sort of stuck and ever since I’ve wanted to attend one but haven’t gotten around to [...]
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