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Gold-digging in Piemonte

Well not exactly gold but at €5,000 a kilo the famous Alba white truffle is worth getting your hands dirty for. It's one of life's luxuries and I love them but unfortunately we usually have to make do with the black variety that are a fraction of the cost. Where to...

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Dog days of summer

It was a magnificent summer here with little rain much to the annoyance of HO who resorted to using our sulphur spring when the hosepipe ban was introduced. Sound familiar? Ultimately this proved too much for late summer crops but autumn looks promising.  A steady...

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Barbaresco a Tavola-act 2 & 3

It's hard to sit at the computer when the weather is so hot but I keep saying to myself I must write a blog. I have lots of notes, it's 30c outside and HO is doing a rain dance for the garden. But despite the occasional darkening skies and accompanying cannons from...

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Disappointing Barolo di Barolo

Barolo is a minefield with so many producers that I take every opportunity to taste whenever I can. For  the past 3 weeks, every Friday, there have been tasting dinners held at various Barolo restaurants with the wines of 10 different producers each evening. Sounds...

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Primavera è arrivata (Spring has arrived)

The temperature has reached 30c  by day, the pool has been opened  but remains cool as overnight the thermometer falls into single figures. The mid teens is as warm as the water has reached.We have lunched for the first time this year on asparagus. All the doors are...

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A new UNESCO World Heritage Site?

We're still waiting but hopefully we will soon be living in a Unesco World Heritage Site. The one and only  nomination of  2011 put forward to  Paris Unesco Commission by the Italian Government in the 150th  anniversary of  Italian Unity. "Piedmont Wine Landscape of...

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Alberto Voerzio and Stroppiana at Herstmonceux

I have been looking for the wine of small local producers to showcase at the Herstmonceux dinner and it is difficult as there are so many to choose from. I have already decided that the excellent wines of Franco Rocca (“Albesani” Barbaresco 2007 and “Bricco Stepone”...

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