On his recent trip to Celler Espelt and the cava cellars of Segura Viudas, Adam Partridge finds some great wines – and Freddie Mercury pouring Cava in a tapas joint in Barcelona.
Up at 5am to catch the flight. We meant business.
Swapping autumnal Nottinghamshire for sunny Catalonia and taking a couple of days leave from their three restaurants, the …
By Kat Hounsell
“In his beak the stork brought a baby vine,” is , I feel, an appropriate twist on the Alsatian fable. The Alsace region of France, bordering on Germany, is home to a bountiful supply of fruitful vines and within the region can be found the village of Ribeauville. And in Ribeauville, one can find the oldest wine cooperative in France, …
By Kat Hounsell
Known to locals as 170km of happiness, the Alsace region of France is a patchwork blanket of some of the finest vines in the country. Vineyards wrap around the borders of charming little villages that are home to the finer things in life, such as world class Gewurztraminer and decadent foie gras. The local architecture has been heavily influenced by the Germans, …
By Julia Bailey
Sheer cliff faces, cypress trees peppering the landscape and crystal clear azure waters. There are a lot of great things about Greece, and the wine is definitely ready to stand up and be counted as well. As a self-confessed wine geek, I love to go around and try weird and wonderful wines, and I had …
By Caroline Conner
Although I am originally from California, my wine education has taken place in the UK, and as such I’ve always felt like I haven’t been familiar enough with the wines from my home state. During my holiday I had the pleasure of tasting some truly great Californian wines, Cabs from the 70s and 80s, and a flight of …
by Gareth Groves
Altitude and cabin pressure does funny things to our taste buds, as Heston Blumenthal’s Mission Impossible programme on Channel 4 earlier this year showed when the chef devised a number of umami-heavy dishes for BA customers.
But what about wine? If our taste buds perceive food differently on the ground then surely the same goes for the wine? It …
By Kat Hounsell
Toulouse, or La Ville Rose, as its also known, was the destination for a long bank holiday weekend…trading in the celebratory traditional British picnic of Pimms and square sandwiches for ‘steak au point’ accompanied by a glass, ok let’s make that a bottle, of Coteaux du Languedoc from Les Augustins. Personally I would take a juicy Syrah/Grenache/Mourvedre, with its subtle spice and rich, smoky …
By Willie Lebus
I’ve just come back from Istanbul and apart from Barcelona, it’s the busiest city I’ve visited in a long time.
Here are a few tips for all you foodie travellers out there.
1 – A long weekend is a perfect amount of time in Istanbul. The weekend is manic and Le Tout Istanbul’s partying.
For the Culture Vultures – I’m no …
By Rob Pickard
Here at B Times, we love our food and wine and are equally partial to sunning ourselves on holiday. Sun, culture, food and wine… happy days! So when our Prosecco producer, Bisol, informed us of their plan to team up with Creative Escapes to offer top-notch, gastronomic holiday experiences to the Valdobbiadene region, we were eager to know more.
Like all good ideas, …
by Emma Selby, http://thelittlewelsh.blogspot.com/
This is the third time we’ve been to this seafood restaurant located in Sok Kwu Wan, the largest fishing farm in Hong Kong, and each time it has got consistently better. Rainbow Seafood Restaurant opened in 1984 as a small family run 40 seater restaurant. Now over two decades later it has become …
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