Timely highlights of wine writing make a literary buffet on which to feast
Brian St. Pierre reviews
(Académie du Vin Library; £25)
By now, in this plague year, most of us may be feeling more than a bit like the poor dupe in Edgar Allen Poe’s “A Cask of Amontillado,” walled into a wine-cellar’s alcove, maneuvered into claustrophobic isolation in an extreme of anti-social distancing, and frustrated at being unable to expansively share one of the best things ever created for expansive sharing. Denied wine’s bridge to gregariousness, “cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in to saucy doubts and fears,” as Macbeth once complained, we need an antidote, and rummaging around in this anthology of wine writing is a good one; it’s a set of keys to open the windows and let some sun shine in again.
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Under lockdown, it can be very hard to get out and do the exercise we’re all meant to do. Spending our days at work in our homes, it doesn’t quite feel the same when we finish work, relocate to another part of the house or room, and try to relax for the evening. Even the daily walks have, by this point, started to become a little repetitive as we near a year since the first lockdown. As a journalist, I do spend some time out of the house as part of my job. But it’s not really exercise. While I’ve tried to keep up my fitness during lockdown, these dark, cold evenings are not the most conducive to getting out and doing a bit of exercise. So when I was contacted by Anne Evans, landlady of the Foresters Arms, about their fundraising through fitness, I leapt at the chance to give it a go.
The Drinks Business
10 February 2021 By Colin Hay
In the fourth of a series exploring the history, market performance, recent and, in this case less recent, vintages of some of Bordeauxâs leading estates,
Colin Hay benefits from the privilege of a rare vertical tasting at the château with proprietor Berenice Lurton to look at the remarkable consistency and timeless beauty of the wines of Château Climens in Barsac.
Terroir
There is little doubting the exceptional character of the
terroir of Château Climens. And there is little doubting that the wine it produces, perhaps more so than any other leading cru of Bordeaux, is defined by its intimate connection to that
Timely highlights of wine writing make a literary buffet on which to feast
Brian St. Pierre reviews
(Académie du Vin Library; £25)
By now, in this plague year, most of us may be feeling more than a bit like the poor dupe in Edgar Allen Poe’s “A Cask of Amontillado,” walled into a wine-cellar’s alcove, maneuvered into claustrophobic isolation in an extreme of anti-social distancing, and frustrated at being unable to expansively share one of the best things ever created for expansive sharing. Denied wine’s bridge to gregariousness, “cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in to saucy doubts and fears,” as Macbeth once complained, we need an antidote, and rummaging around in this anthology of wine writing is a good one; it’s a set of keys to open the windows and let some sun shine in again.
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