…they just have three children at home during the school holidays. Anyway, here we are back again after this enforced sabbatical, at the European Wine Bloggers Conference . This is really interesting stuff, not least for me who, up until fairly recently, held a robustly ”blog humbug” attitude to this medium. What’s interesting is the […]

new initiative, folks, hot of the wine-press. For an instant translation of Wine Marito’s post today, blog this way….
when I was a teeny-tiny marketeer I was spoon-fed Kotler, the staple diet of any 1980’s Marketing baby. I liked it, and even today am just as partial to the Main Man of Marketing as I am […]

A while back, Jamie Oliver made everyone painfully aware of the toe-curling state of UK school lunches, and the Goverment responded to the nation’s united gag reflex by promising to raise the spend  on ingredients per lunch to a dizzy 52p, or 68p for secondary school kids. That’s a whopping 80 cents (or so). It […]

Gianpaolo has a modest blush to his cheek after returning home yesterday laden with fantastic prizes. He’s won ‘Best Wine Blog 2007′ and his Wine Wife just wants to say, WELL DONE , DARLING.

So I casually take the newspaper off the silver salver this morning, (frowning slightly at a small crease the staff haven’t ironed out properly), and nearly choke on my cappuccino. ”Berlusconi moving to Montecucco”, like NEXT DOOR. Apparently he’s going to buy Tenuta di Montecucco and introduce a new law requiring all citizens over 5′8 […]

…which is an event in itself, so it’s best to go for broke - which took me to the poshest pad in town, Pelicano, one of the world’s tippety-toppest hotels. As a guide, a one night stay costs roughly the same as a month’s mortgage on a flat in Maidstone. A huddle of annexes sits languidly […]

… and I was. Last week we made a little sojourn to Somerset, very much one of the green and pleasant bits, stopping at Wells and Bath. Wells, with just 10′000 people, is the smallest city in England, but by no means the least. The cathedral, sitting on its green, is a delight, there are […]

that’s it, another year’s Vinitaly done, and done vicariously for me, as I stayed home with three vomity children and a dying dog…oh yes, it’s glam glam glam being a Wine Wife. Bit of a wierd Vinitaly then, this year…this fair started for us 10 years ago as the key point in the year in […]

whilst looking for a bouquet to send to send as an anniversary present, I found a super company called The Gluttonous Gardener, which is like Interflora meets Slow Food. So much more original and long lasting than a bunch of fiori, their gifts are boxed plants and trees for anywhere from a downstairs lavatory […]

It’s 10 ten years this year since we started our little wine adventure in Tuscany. In those ten years we have acquired another farm, three children, a dog , grey hair , facial wrinkles and a nervous tic. We nearly had two porcupines, but that, as they say, is another story. I’m often forgetful of […]