| My favourite things… |
| Tuesday, 20 December 2011 16:00 |
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“She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
Jerome wrote these words. Better known as J. D. Salinger. Whenever I read them, I always imagine ‘her’ with a flute of Champagne in her hand, hair tousled and sexy, with an air of unfettered you’re-looking-at-me, I’m-not-looking-at-you going on. And of course, to my mind, she is French.
Pour me a glass of fine Champagne, and I can even become her.
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| Lady Parker's Christmas Dozen |
| Friday, 16 December 2011 09:09 |
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With Christmas just around the corner, there is a last minute rush and myriad of things to organise – the dreaded shopping expeditions, transforming and beautifying the home with Christmas decorations , planning and organizing the Christmas menu, baking shortbread, mince pies and panforte, making sure the children have plenty of activities to stop them “wreaking havoc in the house”, and sending Christmas cards (or fancy e-cards because “snail mail” simply takes too long), or perhaps greetings on FB to which we are all so addicted!
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| Weingut Stadt Krems |
| Monday, 17 May 2010 11:53 |
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 Weingut Stadt Krems is in a class by itself: the enterprise is owned by a municipality. On the one hand, this implies an obligation to provide a model for all the vineyards in the region. On the other hand, the enterprise is subject to all the plans of the municipal administration. This position makes managing a vineyard especially challenging. Historically, Weingut Stadt Krems arose from two sources. The first source is the property of the Burgerspitalstiftung. In 1210, Duke Leopold IV of Babenberg founded a publicē hospital in Krems and left important legacies to it, including vineyards. The second source was the generous bequest of the imperial Burggrave of Krems, Ulrich von Dachsberg, who presented the town with vineyards in 1452. |
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| Champagne - The Road to Recovery |
| Sunday, 25 April 2010 19:08 |
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 Michael Edwards
Wine Man & Prize-winning Author
Born in Hertford in 1944, Michael went to the well-known local school, Haileybury College, where he was taught history by Tony Melville, a distinguished Cambridge medievalist, who instilled in him the art of essay writing. After studies in Etruscan antiquities at the University of Perugia, Michael read for the Bar at Gray's Inn. Though useful to be a trained lawyer, he never wanted to practise – having found a new passion in Italy to last a lifetime- wine. In 1968, Michael joined Laytons, the London wine shippers, as a trainee. Then while living in Burgundy and Provence in the 'seventies, he travelled widely on behalf of wine giants like Michel Laroche, Gerard Chave and Leonard Humbrecht, who are now household names in England and the United States.
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| Will Bordeaux prices crash? |
| Friday, 03 April 2009 14:09 |
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"Bordeaux is France's biggest wine exporting region, so what goes on there is closely watched by wine experts around the world. Bordeaux dominates the wine market. More precisely, the perception of Bordeaux dominates the world trade in fine wines. When people talk of wine prices, invariably they mean Bordeaux prices, because Bordeaux wines are the only wines that are truly a commodity. Old Bordeaux are sold at auctions, like paintings and rare jewels, and new Bordeaux are bought on future contracts, like wheat and pork bellies".
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