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The weird and the wonderful, scandals, human interest stories… while good drinking and good living go hand in hand, overindulgence sometimes has unforeseen, untoward, or even tragic consequences … Welcome to the dark side of the drinks world.
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“Over the Top” or the Power Struggle of the Last Dinosaurs
A few days ago, we were celebrating the most incredible event in the history of humanity. Fifty years ago, half a million people, working together with a single purpose for some ten years, made...
A Coffee a Day Keeps the Deafness Away
Coffee is a drink of at least a thousand virtues... Among others, it makes you more attentive and, thereby... a better listener. The “Hendrix” generation sadly had no choice other than to keep listening...
The Chauvinism Content of Wine
Although we can thank the English for having been able to sell French wine worldwide (and for having cleverly informed the rest of the planet that there was only one wine on earth that...
The South-African Tea of a Thousand Virtues
Rooibos, reddish “miracle” tea, with its “slight taste of strawberries”, is gradually moving away from its ancestral origins. The thousand virtues of this tea and the industrialization it has undergone have brought it to...
Death of the World’s Best Sommelier
A simple, self-effacing man, touching in his kind-heartedness, and yet a world authority in oenology, died on 16 January this year. There has been a deluge of tribut.
https://www.thecaterer.com/articles/545049/tributes-flood-in-for-gerard-basset-following-death-aged-61
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2019/01/tributes-paid-to-the-inimitable-gerard-basset-mw-ms-obe/
https://www.decanter.com/wine-news/gerard-basset-dies-wine-legend-407655/