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From €7.80, £11.99, 18 Swiss francs Find this wine Some of the worst wine I have tasted since I started writing about wine was what was available the one time we went on holiday to the far-eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus in 1983. The whites showed the... More...
The day after my Faro tasting I was picked up from Messina by an elegantly clad lady who greeted me with a radiant smile while introducing herself as Enza La Fauci. She is the proprietor of a small estate of the same name in the Faro DOC. La Fauci does not show her wines at the annual Assovini... More...
Longstanding visitors to this site will know of my campaign against unnecessarily heavy bottles . I'm pleased that there is now much more awareness of the environmental cost of producing and transporting ridiculous bodybuilder bottles. Glass, being neutral in flavour, has served us well... More...
Readers may remember how only last year I raved about the Faro wines of two producers, Bonavita and Salvatore's Geraci's Palari estate . Faro is a tiny DOC perched on the windy hills at the very eastern tip of Sicily overlooking the straight of Messina. It was practically extinct when in... More...

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[QUOTE]something new seems to be happening at the ex Green and Blue premises on Lordship Lane. Fingers crossed.[/QUOTE] It is being taken over by Les Caves de Pyrene to add to their collection of. More...
thank you for all your suggestions! the orchestra with whom i played, really looked after me very well! i had a wonderful bottle of tissot pinot noir in the press room....unfortunately there was. More...
Arvid and Keith: I've never found de Vogue to be disappointing, but I haven't popped a lot of them lately. Within the last couple of years, both the Chambolle AC '99 and the Chambolle 1er Cru '98. More...
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