I enjoy my food, and I like to spend my evenings consuming it and some wine in a relaxed manner. People may say I work hard but I can’t remember the time I last spent an evening working (as in writing).
This means that while travelling round wine country, I really appreciate keeping to a timetable. Not for me arriving at a winery way behind schedule at 8 pm with a big tasting in prospect and limping back to the hotel at midnight, hungry.
So I would like to express my admiration for our Australian columnist Max Allen, who was...