More writing. I am on about 5,000 words per day, which is intense, but hey, that’s what I do. In the afternoon, Tomoko and I go to inspect at a house for sale in north Guildford that is very tempting. Beautiful interior, nice size rooms, lovely kitchen, decent garden…just in the wrong side of town [...]
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I work like a demon today, finishing off Willi Schaefer and then making in-roads into Weingut Dönnhoff, with Helmut’s son Cornelius imparting useful information by e-mail. In between all this I am organizing my horrendously busy, spaghetti-like Bordeaux itinerary. It is not the visits that take up so much time: it is the logistics of [...]
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March. So where the hell is spring then? Postponed until 2011 given the gang of cumuli nimbus that loiter above like bored teenagers. This week I have avowed to plough through a backlog of articles on a cluster of German visits/tasting that I made with David Wainwright last September, concentrating on Willi Schaefer (pictured), Helment [...]
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