Category Archives: wine tasting

 

Piemonte Wednesday

Jun 20

We had a morning at the Pollenzo campus with some of the Slow Food folk on Wednesday. Representatives of the Slow Food International, Slow Food Editore and the Foundation for Biodiversity gave us a talk on their mandates and activities. … Continue reading →

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Piemonte Monday

Jun 18

We had four busy days exploring Piemonte (Piedmont), in north-western Italy. We made an early start from Parma and lunched in Pollenzo, at the campus cafeteria of the first and other campus of our university, and were able to exchange … Continue reading →

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Dijon continued: more wine, a few smoking barrels and a nice bit of cheese

Jun 4

On Friday, we visited the Château de Corton-André, to hear about the wines of Pierre André from Christian Ciamos. He told us first about the yellow tiled roof of the chateau, which had come from Bruges and which was one … Continue reading →

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Crete part 1: snail tales from central Crete

Apr 19

We’ve just returned from a fantastic week on Crete, which I’ll attempt to document by day, with a very selective sampling from the 700+ photos I returned with; best I can do since I can’t share the feeling of being … Continue reading →

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Exam shazaam & Vinitaly

Apr 1

I read somewhere that on this day in 1755, Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin was born in France. He wrote The Physiology of Taste, about the pleasures of food, published in 1825 when he was just 69. I should like to add that … Continue reading →

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