As the days get shorter and the economic outlook gets bleaker, Giovanni Morelli suggests some quality wines to keep the winter blues away “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close-bosom friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless, With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run.” ‘To Autumn’ – [...]
Giovanni Morelli hopes his readers will be over the moon with his latest advice on some famous Chianti Classico names that are available in Ireland It was a little after 9.30pm and dark. We were having dinner by candle-light on the terrace when Chiara suddenly said, “Come quickly and look.” I detached myself from a [...]
Giovanni Morelli has some tips on wines to drink during the Christmas holidays, and a few wine books you might like to send him as gifts Can’t we just get rid of wine lists? Do we really have to be reminded every time we go out to a nice restaurant that we have no idea [...]
Giovanni Morelli bemoans the move to fast food in France, but reports on some fine wines from Austria that are worthy of experimentation Can you believe that the French are about to open a McDonalds in the Louvre! Yes the country with the greatest gastronomic tradition, excluding Italy, has more McDonalds than any other country [...]
Giovanni Morelli visited châteaux in Bordeaux, read about buried cheese, and discovered that the Luas lines in France connect “We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain [...]
Giovanni Morelli voices his wine-related annoyances and looks at some of the best red and white wines coming out of Spain at the moment ‘Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age’ – attributed to Pope John XXIII. One thing that really annoys me (my wife says I [...]
Giovanni Morelli writes that Diogenes, who spent his days living in a barrel, reminds him of a novel scheme where customers can buy barrels of their own wine ‘What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others’ — Diogenes. In these times of despair and depression, perhaps Diogenes (who lived around 400 [...]
St Thomas Aquinas wrote that ‘sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine’. In these turbulent times, Giovanni Morelli agrees. In this column, I have always tried to pick wines that are interesting and relatively inexpensive. It seems that with all the talk of recession, depression and general gloom, [...]
Giovanni Morelli writes that even experts can be fooled when it comes to recognising true quality, and this applies to wine as much as other areas Now that the festivities are over and all the New Year’s resolutions have been made (or broken), it’s time to look back at the wines we drank in 2008. [...]
Giovanni Morelli recommends a selection of fine wines to match what is undoubtedly the biggest and most important meal of the year — the gut-busting feast that we all enjoy on Christmas Day. The best kind of wine is that which is pleasant to him that drinks it.” – Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historiae. One [...]
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