It happened – I MEAN – it REALLY happened, I’ve seen it… lived it, smiled it! 400 000 euros of a Beaune 1er Cru suddenly changed into gold to be given to Charity. Last Sunday at the Hospices de Beaune Auction we lived a total Pinot Noir Moment. People stood up, everyone blinked, stared, laught. [...]

Beaujolais Nouveau will never be a GRAND VIN. It had successes and failures, it was fashion and could belong to old times now. But it is a wine that gives you the capacity to share, laught and and enjoy the “right now” . Now think that if it doesn’t give you a headache it’s better, [...]

I am a wine blogger. What a strange idea when you are not one and what kind of idea do you have of one when you read them. Well oddly this time, the perception of what a wine blogger could be, is often the reality of what a wine blogger is in real life: a [...]

Fleurie is a perfect Thanksgiving wine. If it was a person, I am sure it would love to party as beaujolais nouveau. But even though Fleurie is beaujolais blood, so loves to party, it is born far too late, has far too much of an elegant heritage, to be seen in such conditions. So are [...]

Imagine a huge lake, mountains, good cheese, nice luxury shops, a cosmopolitan world… and WINE. Now imagine that the wine, eventually, is good. And from what I’ve tried, they can be … Yes, that’s how lucky wines and their wine makers are in Geneva. And in fact, you may not know Swiss wines because the [...]