Wine Tasting in Provence: Chateau Simone

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There's this thing about wine/, tasting it, drinking a glass is meant to be a shared experience. Visiting a vineyard can be an intimate occasion when you get to crumble the soil between your fingers and hear th...

Wine: Fifty Shades of Pink

We’re holding a party at the beginning of May. It should be sunny and 50 people are flying in from the UK to be with us in Provence. The perception from overseas seems to be that having written three books abou...

Return of the Rhone

Wine Tour of Rhone Valley At Midnight on June 21st 2007 I vowed never ever to drink another bottle of Côtes du Rhone.  This alcoholic epiphany came to me just outside the village of Cucuron and the image...