With some shock I realize that it’s more than three years since I wrote the Jura and Savoie chapter for the last edition of Tom Stevenson’s Wine Report 2009, published in October 2008. And, although since then I’ve written about wine tourism in Jura, and contributed articles to other publications, I have not written a… View more
In the absence of that wonderfully useful annual guide Wine Report – no 2010 has been published and 2011 is unlikely – I thought a roundup of random news from Savoie might be useful. Some of these items are not so new at all, but Savoie news travels rather slowly. The text I provided for… View more
To truly understand the world of wine and indeed the liquid itself, it helps to develop an expertise in world geography, geology, climatology, environmental science as well as world history, politics, economics, marketing and current affairs; sciences including plant biology, microbiology and chemistry; and last but not least the art, or is it the craft… View more
I reported on this blog back in April, and Decanter have now (4 months later) reported, that Dorling Kindersley will no longer publish Wine Report, the annual wine guide that I have written for since its inception with the 2004 edition. However, all is not lost. Firstly, the author Tom Stevenson still has hopes of… View more
Back in 2002, when Tom Stevenson asked me to write on Jura and Savoie for his new annual guide Wine Report, to be one of 40 contributors, I was flattered, but resigned to doing what I knew would be a huge amount of work for not great financial return. But I didn’t know what real… View more
