Domaine Olivier Pithon
It was a very windy, cloudy April morning that I found myself taking the wiggly, windy route to the village of Calce in the Fenouillèdes. I have long appreciated the fine wines of Olivier Pithon, in fact I still have the odd bottle of one of his first vintages, 2002, in my cellar. So I was looking forward to tasting […]
Chateau Canet
I first went to visit Château Canet in January this year to discuss wine events with owner Victoria Lemstra-Bake, I then returned the following month to taste the wines and meet with her husband and winemaker, Floris Lemstra. Château Canet is a wine estate in the Minervois village of Rustiques, just north of Trebes. Of the 120 hectares of land, […]
Clés en Main rouge 2018
The sun came back on Thursday and as is its want here, the temperature rocketed up a good 10 degrees in a blink of an eye. So we suddenly found ourselves in shorts and sunnies, and wanting a barbecue. Luckily on my last trip out to the scary world I had picked up some merguez from the Comptoir des […]