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The Goedhuis Away Day

Once a year we escape from sunny Vauxhall and head out into the country for the Goedhuis Away Day. As the empire now stretches as far afield as Hong Kong

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Willkommen to Alto Adige

Our last buying trip covered much of northern Italy including Barolo, Barbaresco, Valpolicella, Prosecco, Alto Adige and Friuli. I have fortunately been to Piedmont

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Ch Lafite Rothschild Blanc?

We have just received an email offering us 2 bottles of Ch Lafite Rothschild BLANC 1959 for 2395 euros. I must be one of the very few people ever to have drunk this wine.

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Bellinis anybody?

Hemingway is reputed to have drunken A LOT which is interesting because in novels such as A Moveable Feast he commented on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s consumption

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Glera, Prosecco’s “˜New’ Variety

Though most wine drinkers of the world know of Prosecco, they do not realize that it went through a crisis around two years ago. With the dwindling economy

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