The whole day is devoted to Pomerol, researching, writing, editing and stressing. I work solidly for hours and then bail at 5.00pm to attend a tasting of German 2009s in Victoria. The wines are impressive, full of minerality and personality, although it will be remembered more for a tirade against French AC laws by Dirk [...]
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I drive down to Basingstoke as I have arranged a morning to inspect Berry Brother & Rudd’s purchase ledger from the 1930s as research for my Pomerol book. It is fascinating looking through the entries all written in fountain pen, notes of wines, prices and comments. Particularly interesting is the old champagnes: Krug 1928, Pol Roger 1929 [...]
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This week I am focusing upon my long-overdue book on Pomerol that has been delayed due to the sheer amount of work that Wine-Journal consumes. Therefore I spend most of the day translating J.A. Garde’s “L’Histoire de Pomerol” looking for nuggets of useful information. There are a lot of technical French words last used around [...]
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Sometimes it is difficult to stop working. At the moment I am taking traveling hiatus in order to try and catch up on my mountainous backlog, also pre-empting a house move that may or may not take place in the near future. So these days I keep finding myself at the Mac and this morning is [...]
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