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Last week I hosted a UK-based customer, who told me how Cloof Cellar Blend had helped him out of a […]

Don’t Try This At Home is a book of top chefs’ kitchen disasters. Heston Blumenthal, Ferran Adria, Jamie Oliver, Anthony

On a recent Phineas Fogg-type itinerary (6 cities in 10 days) I had occasion to visit Ireland for the first

Wine shopping has become a hazardous experience, especially when undertaken at peak times. On Saturday morning I went browsing for

During Vinexpo 2003 I was invited to a wine tasting at a cru bourgeois chateau in Haut-Medoc. I very much

One of the most enjoyable aspects of my involvement at Cloof is that I experience the finished wines at every

With all the international sport on at the moment it’s worth re-visiting the old issue of which team to support.

A few months ago I flew to Johannesburg on Kulula. I had flown with them before, and the experience then

“Life is queer, with its twists and turns, as each of us sometimes learns.” Late in 2002 we very seriously

It is my experience that serendipity is a highly effective phenomenon. One of my favourite ways of channelling it is