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The Wonderful Wine of the Forgotten Island
My only prior exposure to Madeira was the bottle of cooking wine my mother kept under the sink, which she occasionally used to enhance sweet dishes taste. Imagine my astonishment, then, upon my first sip of a fine Madeira wine.
Intense Wine from the Volcanic Island of Santorini
When arriving in Santorini for the first time, it’s hard not to let out a long "wow." Purple sunsets, endless blue sea. Everyone can find something to love here. So, is it any wonder I found a wine I fell in love with?
Women Entrepreneurs in North India
"To expect a woman to marry more than one man is excessive," says Rinchen Kalon, the entrepreneur behind The Kyagar boutique hotel in Ladakh, North India, with a mischievous smile. "But to expect her to marry three men who are also brothers is downright cruel."
“Full gas in neutral” or refinement and complexity?
Ribera del Duero, where some of the world's finest wines are produced, is located about an hour's drive south of Madrid, but it feels like a different world. Organizing a wine tour there can be challenging, sometimes very challenging. But the effort pays off. Read on to find out why.
A sweet and slightly bitter visit to Tokaji – Part B
No doubt a good wine comes with a price, but $ 40,000 for a bottle of Tokai Ascensia, sounds excessive. However, the winemaker claims that the winery do not profit from the sale of this Ascensia wine (a concentrated extract of Tokaji wine) because producing one single teaspoon of it requires a pound of dried grapes....
Sweet and slightly bitter visit to Tokaji- part A
He asked us to meet him at the gas station, and from there, he would take us for a tasting. Who the hell invites wine critics to a meeting at a gas station instead of at a winery? An adventure in Tokaj, Hungary. That's how it started...
