Since my last blog post – improbably over a month ago now – I have finally managed to establish Byrne Vini. This is my acorn-sized wine-making project. In fact, we bottled 600 bottles (plus a few extras for tasting samples and possibly one or two to...
Count yourselves lucky – I was working on some worse titles than that. Etna Mountain High Enough, for example. Anyway, now that we are again allowed to foregather, I started to think about when the last time was that there was a group of us here at...
Well, that’s just great, isn’t it? I got all ready, and did a blog post about the introduction of ‘air bridges’ between the UK and other countries – I’ve been hearing about them, seeing them in the media: set to be confirmed...
Right, here’s another post – this time about biodynamics. On Friday 12th June I took part in (?) two Instagram Chats, hosted by Keith Edwards, who has a great blog, as well as an apparently limitless cellar. These chats were about biodynamics – the first with a...
So, from 18th May we have been allowed out again in a form much more redolent of our lives before Corona virus. In Piemonte, we chose to wait until Saturday 23rd May: here in Alba, the squares were full, people were chatting, getting their coffee or aperitivo...
