To Be or Not to Be: Wine Faults – Part One
When I write about wine aromas and flavours, I tend to focus on the positive ones: the appetising compounds in wine, which bring us pleasure and make us take another sip. But wine, like...
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Red Wines of Piemonte: More Than Nebbiolo
Italy is not just an unforgettable holiday destination but also a stunning wine country, with plenty of treasures waiting to be discovered in each of its 20 wine regions. One of its top performers...
Food and Wine Pairing: Champagne
It’s been over 25 years since I bought my first scruffy book about herbs in a dusty second-hand bookstore in my hometown Ghent, and I had no idea it would eventually lead me to...
How to Become a Better Wine Taster: Training Your Nose
In the countless wine tastings, courses and classes of the past decade, I’ve had the pleasure of observing wine tasters of all walks of life. And they roughly fall in one of two categories:...
