Tasting wine at four Bordeaux châteaux would be a treat for any oenophile. But, in a single day … before lunch? Join our wine scribe Jim Walker and his fellow imbibers as they accomplish this marvellous feat. Continue reading “MARVELLOUS MARGAUX AND MORE”
The Tower of Château Latour
Euripides is said to have observed, “Where there is no wine there is no love.” This was not the case when our wine scribe Jim Walker and his wee band of intrepid imbibers paid a visit to Château Latour. Continue reading “O! BORDEAUX – LUST LOOMED LARGE AT LATOUR”
We join our wine scribbler Jim Walker and his fellow oenophiles as they embark on another day of their fabulous 1988 tour of the Bordeaux wine region. On that day they visited the Pauillac where they met up with Jean-Michel Cazes of Château Lynch-Bages and Château Pichon Longueville Baron. Continue reading “O! BORDEAUX – A DAY IN PAUILLAC”
A personal ad in the travel section of The New York Times many years ago started the whole thing. A few months later our wine correspondent Jim Walker, his wife Hélène Buisson, and two other couples embarked on what would truly be an oenophile’s trip of a lifetime. Here’s how it all began. Continue reading “O! BORDEAUX – ARRIVAL”
Apéro hour at the Château (Photo by Tim McTiernan)
Our wine scribbler, Jim Walker and his wife Hélène have recently returned from a month in Provence, the last week of which they spent with friends at a castle in the Luberon. Cocktail hour conversations one evening drifted onto the subject of ghastly wine experiences. He relates three of them for us here. Continue reading “WINE TALES FROM LE CHÂTEAU DE GOULT”
Our wine scribe, Jim Walker, uncovered more than a long forgotten bottle when he plumbed the depths of his wine cellar. Continue reading “A VERITABLE VINOUS VALHALLA”
Gentlemans Portion 