Perfect for a short break combining city and beach. Can especially recommend the Lapa Palace Hotel as one of the best in Lisbon with a tranquil outdoor swimming pool in a secluded garden. If eating in tourist laden Rua das Portas de Santo Antao carry on to no. 150 where Solar dos Presuntos is excellent.When [...]
November 21, 2009 – 5:28 am
Travel to Piedmont in the Autumn and you should be in for a treat as it is the white truffle season. More expensive pound for pound than gold shavings are sprinkled over your food and depending on how carried away you get the truffle is weighed again and you pay for the grams consumed. On [...]
Take a look inside our Bury St Edmunds wine shop with Nicholas …
Earlier this year we made a flying visit to France to try a number of new wines being shown at a special tasting that brought together a number of independent wine makers.
Overall we returned slightly disappointed at the standard of many of the wines (there really were a number of shockers!) but did identify so [...]
January 5, 2009 – 8:21 am
To accompany a Chestnut Torte, recipe supplied by Robert Mace, Head Chef at the Adnams Crown Hotel in Southwold, Christopher is recommending a Dolgesheiner Scützenhütte Merlot Eiswein 2004, a half bottle of pudding wine, £12.99, from grower Biegler Müller in the Rheinhessen.
As discussed on this morning’s James Hazell show, chestnut can be very rich and [...]
November 21, 2008 – 11:14 am
Domaine Faiveley … what a treat.
Domaine Faiveley, based in Nuits-Saint-Georges, now owns more domains than any other family in Burgundy. Set up in 1825, just one year before Thomas Peatlng, it’s now down to the 7th generation to lead the way.
We arrived on 6 October just two days before the end of harvest on 8 [...]
November 21, 2008 – 10:27 am
“Australia is good at giving consumers what they want.” A common observation in the trade, but one that usually refers to wines in the £5-7 price range, many sold through the supermarkets on sometimes spurious offers.
But start looking beyond ‘Brand Australia’, into distinct regional wines in much the same way as we do with France [...]
November 1, 2008 – 4:31 pm
Whilst numerous delicious Champagnes exist and continue to delight me, when I taste them I’m always conscious that these are expensive products. Very expensive when compared to many very good wines.
Of course the high costs of the raw materials and the added costs of prolonged ageing and storage go some way to explaining these premium [...]
