For five years, 2009 to 2014, I split my time between England and France. The winter months were spent in England teaching wine studies at my own wine school as well as at a College in Birmingham. Summers were spent in France running wine tours. I always returned to Languedoc on April 1st. I liked the idea of arriving on April Fool’s Day, it was my way of sticking two fingers up at fate, saying OK I know how foolish I am but watch me go… Continue reading in Substack...

This is a story of how a love of wine gave me a new life in the Other South of France. #1 The Minervois. It was April 1st 2009 when I...

Over the past decade or more I’ve done quite a bit of writing; independently publishing my first book, The Wines of the...

Well, that’s one way of looking at it but a better one is to turn your thinking around to how did this wine get into the bottle? Where is...