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Top Tips For Your Next City Break – Sydney   Why? The Harbour City (Australia's largest with a population of over 4,600,000 people) enjoys a breathtaking oceanic location, a warm and sunny maritime climate, a wealth of great museums and galleries, a fantastic and inexpensive public transport system and offers diverse world class cuisine and […]

Top Tips for Your Next City Break – Copenhagen   Why? Copenhagen is a coastal, visitor-friendly, contained capital, where good English is (almost) universally and willingly spoken, with a wealth of history, great design and architecture there is much to enjoy. The residents are generally very positive and helpful and the city is very clean, […]

Burgundian Bonhomie After almost two years of enforced isolation three of our sales team made a whistle-stop trip to Burgundy last week to sample some new bottlings, secure some much needed stock and catch up with developments at diverse domaines. We based ourselves in Beaune for our three night séjourn due to its proximity to […]

Why? With a rich mercantile history trading wool, wine, timber, coal and fish Hull has played an important role in British history for over seven centuries and has much to recommend it to visitors. With grand Victorian architecture gracing a medieval street plan, great museums, theatres, pubs, bars and restaurants the European Cultural Capital of […]

Why? The City of Light is synonymous with fine art, architecture, culture, food, wine, fashion, film, music and romance. Why wouldn't you want to visit? How? The Eurostar from London Saint Pancras gets you to the heart of the French capital in as little as 2 hours and 16 minutes. With a check in time […]

Why? The capital of Belgium is the host city of the European Union as well as numerous international organisations making it a vibrant, multi-cultural metropolis with much to offer visitors. Famous for its world class chocolate and beer it also has a diverse restaurant scene and mitteleuropean café culture. With a wealth of Art Nouveau, […]

Why? France's second most populous city has a rich and ancient history dating back to its origins as the strategic Greek port of Massalia. It retains an otherness and aloofness from the rest of mainland France and despite enduring sieges, depravation, scandal, Nazi occupation and troubled race relations it remains romantic, mysterious and welcoming. With […]

The London restaurant scene has noticed an increasing popularity for wines from Tenerife and Sicily in the past couple of years. Corsica on the other hand, is still very unknown for many. When I was offered to go there on a buying trip, I first saw the opportunity of visiting a new 'French' wine region […]

To: Bordeaux     Why? Spread along the twin banks of the mighty Garonne river Bordeaux is the quintessential smart French city with its' elegant 18th century waterfront, tree-lined boulevards and bustling café culture. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2007 and only Paris boasts more buildings listed as historic monuments. It […]

It was back in 2005 that Jason and I made our first foray over to the magical isle of Corsica, resulting in us shipping wines from Domaines Pieretti, Saparale and Torraccia. We (ergo, you, because we can't drink it all) have been enthusiastically enjoying the wines ever since.     I was fortunate enough to […]