This little blog is meant to give you the reader some sort of broad stroke picture of what you could get up to over ten days in Ireland....

Taste Passion  Really my passion is more about crossing borders. Don’t you feel that when you cross an international frontier, something...

Driving over the hill is what locals say when they leave Pasadena heading west toward Glendale. As was my habit to listen to the BBC...

Voila, I said I wanted to do this professionally and now I’m doing it! I recently launched Charlemagne Wine Tasting Dinners. We have done...

There is something about Paris that I love, I become a different person there. I assume Paris & I become a Parisian, a nice one though......

A good friend of mine Inge Hoste kindly hooked me up with this fine estate. Castello Monterinaldi is based in the hills of the Chianti...

Cos d’Estournel Chateau Talbot St Julien Chateau La Louviere Chateau Carbonnieux Chateau Cheval Blanc Chateau Pichon-Longueville...

I made a cold call from my home in Pasadena, California, to the owners of Chateau Beauregard Ducasse in the Graves area of Bordeaux. The...

There I was driving through the French countryside in my shitty little Renault Clio, I realized that not all foreigners understand how...

I was young when I attended catering college in France. I must say, when I was there I had no clue how cool it was. I didn’t realize what...

Walking into a typical Italian café for breakfast, which in Italy is usually a café latte and a pastry for me. There is one particular...

Last year on my way back from Milan, I was taking a plane from Malpensa airport to London Gatwick. Standing in line at the economy...

Bordeaux is like no other in the wine market. Every year around the last days of March and first few days of April, the wine press and...

We all drink Champagne from time to time, however few of us understand how to buy Champagne. This is a an educational piece on the...

I was walking on a beach in Brazil when suddenly life became so much clearer and all because of a rash guard emblazoned with ‘Face your...

Orange France Orange France Roman Gate at Orange Tain L’Hermitage Chapoutier Batard Monrachet Volnay Pommard House Gevrey Chambertain...