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When it comes to enjoying wine with bold Asian cuisines there really are no rules - and certainly no room for the traditional notion of whites with seafood and reds with meat.
This incredible Champagne collection spans more than three decades and includes well over a hundred of the best bubblies produced between 1979 and 2002. Among the many highlights are multiple vintages of Krug and Krug Clos du Mesnil, ten vintages of Dom Perignon, plus a horizontal of the great 1996s from Billecart Salmon!
Features several superb private collections and highlights including an exceptional selection of Bordeaux in pristine condition, with multiple cases of Château Lafite Rothschild and Château Pétrus in their original wooden cases, and a Superlot of 20 rare Imperials of top Bordeaux.
What is the point of all this concocted jargon and these outpourings of adjectives? Does it have any real meaning or purpose? Is it helpful, or merely designed to baffle us?
"The year was 1968. We were on recon in a steaming Mekong Delta. An overheated private removed his flak jacket, revealing a t-shirt with an iron-on sporting the Mad slogan "Up with miniskirts!" Well, we all had a good laugh, even though...
Many colleagues today bemoan that we are losing our true winemaking artisans to a kind of oenological 'industrial revolution', where wines are made in labs, by recipe, to satisfy 'target consumers', 'market profiles' and 'Wine Critics'. The result being that...
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