It is, covid apart, the festive season, time to be merry, drink well and eat luxuriantly. In France it’s black truffle season and of...

The alarm seemed painfully loud, but by the time I had dragged myself out to the car, in the pitch dark wetness of a December morning, I...

Wines so often come with a story and a history. In 2016 we were staying in Ireland with my wife’s family and on the way back we stopped...

A couple of friends, Richard and Tiffany, came to supper and gave us a bottle. It was filthy, covered in thick dust with a rather grimy...

Chablis. I think it was in the early 1980s as an indigent student travelling back from friends in Provence that I first set foot in the...

Having started this blog in Sancerre with the Dr No of Chavignol (Sean Connery having just passed on, and Cotat's door supposedly always...

It was 2017 when Jean-Marc Rolout returned to the silver screen in 'Ce que nous lie', a charming movie of family retrievals set, of...

Kimmeridge. It's a village in Dorset in southern England, and very picture postcardy - thatched roofs and sandy beaches. But to any...