Food and Wine Recommendations From All Over the World
Food and Wine Recommendations From All Over the World
Today (disregarding the time difference) it was officially one year ago since I started my website. Happy one-year anniversary to me! And without exaggerating, a lot has happened in the last year… A year ago, I could never even have imagined the reality we now are living in. My supposed…
Once a year, a man named James Halliday (the Australian version of Robert Parker) publish an annual overview of the “best” wines of Australia. This list then goes on to drive Australian consumers to madness. Like Robert Parker, James Halliday works with a 100-point system, where in reality the highest ...
Mistakes and Other Good Learning Experiences I do not say this often, but I am proud of myself. This site is finally starting to come around. It has taken me far longer then I expected, but as far as a little side project goes, it is starting to look good. I ...
Looking at the weather prognosis for Italy, I cannot help but to become a bit depressed. I was supposed to be there now! But… life is unpredictable. And as it is now, one can only be grateful for what one got. And overall, a winter in Australia is not that…
The end of the 2020 vintage that is, for the southern hemisphere. What else could I be talking about… Cabernet Sauvignon After the year Australia has had, this vintage is going to be an interesting one (interesting is a word I like to use when there are no other polite terms). Here ...
I saw this Instagram post comparing the hospitality industry to the musicians on the Titanic. They know they are going under; people are fight for their lives around them, panicking. While the band keeps playing. It is not much, but it is what they can do. That well describes our time now. Since social distancing became ...
I do not know what makes me more depressed. The fact that the world seems to be coming to a stop, or that a poll showed that 38% of beer drinking Americans (over the age of 21) say that they will not buy Corona beer anymore… Seriously, how stupid can…
It is of course easy to indulge a bit too much. Especially when wine is both one’s occupation and hobby. Do not get me wrong, I love my job and my hobby, but sometimes, especially when one tries to squeeze in a little too much in a short time. Reality ...
Sometimes working in the wine industry can be very demanding; long, irregular hours, physically and mentally demanding… And then, other times life is really good. The biggest part of my job is to talk to people about wine and food. And that is something I genuinely love to do. But to do it, I also need a ...
Since the late 80’s up until now, the vineyards in The Bellarine Peninsula have moved up harvest close to a month. Meaning that they pretty much have harvested one day earlier per year (there are no non-believers in viticulture when it comes to global warming). This year though, things are…
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