Wine Events, Wine Education, Journalist
Jane Clare experiences an 8-day tour of the waters of Bordeaux, courtesy of Viking River Cruises and its Heart of Bordeaux itinerary. I’d never been treated like royalty until I joined a Viking River Cruise. I imagine, back in the day, that Viking princesses (if they existed) were very pampered ladies indeed. I hope they […]
Travel: Explore the best of Bordeaux on a Viking River Cruise Read More »
YOU can take the Northern Girl (that’s me) out of the northern hemisphere and plonk her firmly and squarely in the middle of Sydney, upside down and thousands of miles from home, and she’ll still yearn for pie, peas and gravy. And that’s exactly what I got. My first meal in this welcoming, blue sky,
Secret Sydney: Jane Clare is Down Under and up on high in Australia Read More »
In March 2012 I visited both the Freixenet and Segura Viudas wineries in the heart of the Penedes, near Barcelona. Stories can be seen here. Below is a gallery of pictures [slickr-flickr tag=”penedes” descriptions=”on” type=”galleria” options=”autoplay:3000; imageCrop:true; carousel:false; transitionSpeed:1000; transition:pulse””]
Gallery: Freixenet and Segura Viudas – cava heartland Read More »
I WAS baffled, to say the least, when I found myself standing in front of an innocuous little souvenir shop in the middle of Barcelona late in the evening. I thought I was going for a meal. Why was I here? We rang the bell of the locked shopfront door – then a few moments
Cava sparkles with a family tradition at the Freixenet winery Read More »
THEY say that to truly understand a wine, you need to know about the people who make it and the ground from which it comes. Well, I don’t know if they do say that to be honest … but I think they should. Mention Chablis and you think of a class act. It has
Travel review: Chablis honours the patron saint of wine Read More »