Category Archive: France

Choice Champagnes – The Best Bubbles of 2012

Thanks to a glut of recent celebratory occasions and the discovery of some quirky Champagne bars while travelling, I’ve probably consumed more Champagne in the past year than in the rest of my… Continue reading

Wedding Wines – Some Gems

Well it’s taken me a while to make good on my promise to highlight some of the better wines that I came across when on the hunt for wines for my wedding but… Continue reading

James Bond, Sherlock Holmes and Declassified Bordeaux

As you are no doubt aware, the Gironde river estuary together with the Garonne and Dordogne rivers broadly split the Bordeaux fine wine region into left and right bank areas. What you may… Continue reading

What Price Potensac?

How much does price play a role in where people buy their wine? While it surely plays some factor in the choice of merchant, I think knowledge of the staff and quality of… Continue reading

Ch. Batailley at Rigby’s

Dublin in 2012 is not London in 2012, nor is it Dublin in 2002. In both of the later cases, someone in search of a bottle of wine could stroll off the main… Continue reading