Jim describes the problem with wine corks.
THAT WRETCHED CORK!
SO, WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DRINKING?
Highlights of the fine wines Jim’s been imbibing during lockdown.
THAT WINERY NEAR AIX-EN-PROVENCE
Discovering Château Beauferan and their outstanding wines.
AND THERE HE WAS … GONE!
A dear friend pulls up stakes and heads off to the West Coast. Our wine scribe Jim Walker reminisces about the many vinous adventures and good times they shared.
FRANKLY SCARLETT, WE DO GIVE A DAMN
Domaine de Tara is magnificently situated at the foot of the picturesque ochre hillside village of Roussillon-en-Provence in the heart of the Lubéron Regional Natural Reserve in Provence, France. It faces the […]
A VINEYARD IN A LUNAR-LIKE LANDSCAPE
You can rest assured that no matter where his travels take him, our wine scribe Jim Walker will make plenty of time to visit the top wineries in the area (assuming there […]
THE FARAUD SISTERS AND THEIR GORGEOUS GIGONDAS
More and more women are successfully taking control of wineries around the world. Such is the case at Domaine du Cayron. The difference, as our wine scribe Jim Walker discovered, is that […]
MEET JÉROME FROM CHÂTEAU ROBIN
One meets many interesting characters during the course of one’s endeavours. Such is certainly the case in the wine industry where rugged individualists battle the vagaries of nature and markets in order […]
MYSTERIES IN THE LANGUEDOC
Many strange things have occurred in the land of the Cathars, even in recent times. Something very odd happened to a shipment of wine that was produced there and wound up at […]
A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN BURGUNDY
How nice to have memories of freer and more pleasant times in this covid-19 era. Thursday March 8, 2007, was just such an occasion for our wine scribe, Jim Walker and his […]
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