Wine and Food in the Borderlands Posted: 4th June 2019 These days when I go to Austria I seldom chance it beyond the Vienna’s wide city limits. Last week it was different: almost as soon as I arrived I was whisked off in a...
Category - Wine and Food Diary of Giles MacDonogh
Champagne
Champagne Posted: 1st May 2019 Back in the nineties I seemed to spend half my life padding around...
Disappearing Kentish Town
Disappearing Kentish Town Posted: 2nd April 2019 When I first moved to Kentish Town in central...
Gérard Basset
Gérard Basset Posted: 1st February 2019 Gérard Basset died from throat cancer this month. It is...
Giles MacDonogh to Lead- Champagne: vines, cellars and cuvées...
Giles MacDonogh to lead-Champagne: vines, cellars and cuvées – Reims, Épernay, Côte des...
The Spirit of Christmas Present
The Spirit of Christmas Present Posted: 2nd January 2019 Christmas is certainly not what it was...
Austerity and Prosecco
Austerity and Prosecco Posted: 3rd December 2018 November was grim month. Sometime in the twilight...
On Culinary Fashion: a Tale of Two St John’s: St John’s in...
On Culinary Fashion: a Tale of Two St John’s: St John’s in Clerkenwell and the Oslo Court in St...
The Palate Revives
The Palate Revives Posted: 3rd October 2018 After the dog days of this summer working life has...
Pimm’s Number 6 Cup
Pimm’s Number 6 Cup Posted: 1st August 2018 In the earlier part of this summer at least, I spent...