An year ends and another begins in one insignificant life. There is a sense of urgency and restlessness that unrelenting passage of time heralds. One lingers over moments that touched ones heart – birth of a grandchild, another’s first day at school, climbing a wild rocky outcrop in a faraway land that one thought would…
“Have you brought something for breakfast?” I asked Peter. “I have a magnum of Devaux,” he said. There were boiled eggs, smoked salmon and half bottles of well chilled Manzanilla too. The smell of freshly brewed coffee began to fill the coach. We were on our way to London for Gauguin at the Tate Modern. I have waited…
Is there a bad time to taste wine? I am not talking about Maria Thun’s biodynamic wine tasting calendar. It is not the cosmic influences I am concerned with. I am thinking of more mundane earthly things like time of day and what and how much is in your belly when you lift your Riedel…
What wines should any good cellar contain? By cellar I mean a collection of wines either in an underground cave or a simple wine rack in the kitchen or under the stairs. These days who has a cave anyway? If wine is best enjoyed with food, it follows that ones cellar should be stocked with…
Ramani & I celebrated our forty years together at Sportsmans Arms in Wath on Friday 10 September:
Rutland Bird Fair is another opportunity to meet old friends and make new ones. Steven & Ann Cameron were running the African Bird Club stand. Gehan de Silva who arranged our last birding tour to Sri Lanka was at the JetWing stand promoting ‘Big Five‘ tours to the island. Dimiter who was our guide in…
I have been storing my wine in the cellars under my office at 86 Station parade in Harrogate for a quarter of century. In ten days time, the property will be sold and over the last three months, I have been moving my wine to its new home, a few cases at a time. Today,…
There are many things good about the tasting dinners at Harrogate’s Rudding Park, introduced last August. The idea seemed to be to offer discerning wine lovers an opportunity to drink quality wine with good food at reasonable cost in elegant surroundings. Rudding offered all this and more. One year on, things have changed, and it…
Matilda, our second granddaughter, was born on Sunday 4th July. Five days later, Ramani & I drove to London to see her, tiny, pretty and adorable. We stayed with our daughter in her smart new flat in Islington and saw, held and cuddled little Matilda every day of that warm sunny weekend when Spain beat Holland…
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