My Night With Boris Posted: 2nd March 2020 As regular readers of this blog are aware, in February I go down to the Domaine des Anges in the Ventoux region of Provence for a few days of R & R. It is a bit of a busman’s...
Category - Wine and Food Diary of Giles MacDonogh
My Memories of Michael Broadbent
My Memories of Michael Broadbent By Giles MacDonogh I can’t think when I first met Michael. It...
Friedrich Zweigelt
Friedrich Zweigelt Posted: 2nd December 2019 As he leaves us for pastures new, Willi Klinger, the...
Whisky: The Connoisseur Guide.
Whisky: The Connoisseur Guide Written by Giles MacDonogh For fifteen years or so I had the enviable...
Blaufränkisch/Kékfrankos
Blaufränkisch/Kékfrankos Posted: 1st Novemeber 2019 I became acquainted with the Central European...
From the Battlefields of the Somme to Provence
From the Battlefields of the Somme to Provence Posted: 2nd October 2019 At the beginning of last...
“Tramp Anniversary” and reminiscences about Marco...
Tramp Posted: 1st August 2019 Before last month I recall going to the famous London...
No Weddings, Two Funerals
No Weddings, Two Funerals Posted: 2nd July 2019 June was a month when the deaths of the near and...
Wine and Food in the Borderlands
Wine and Food in the Borderlands Posted: 4th June 2019 These days when I go to Austria I seldom...
Champagne
Champagne Posted: 1st May 2019 Back in the nineties I seemed to spend half my life padding around...