Well, here we are again. I have recently had another article published in The Local Italy – this time about what assistance there has been for wine producers here in Italy due to the Corona virus pandemic and what the situation is for producers in Piemonte. I...
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...
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...
