By Kat Hounsell
Toulouse, or La Ville Rose, as its also known, was the destination for a long bank holiday weekend…trading in the celebratory traditional British picnic of Pimms and square sandwiches for ’steak au point’ accompanied by a glass, ok let’s make that a bottle, of Coteaux du Languedoc from Les Augustins. Personally I would take a juicy Syrah/Grenache/Mourvedre, with its subtle spice and rich, smoky …
By Willie Lebus
I’ve just come back from Istanbul and apart from Barcelona, it’s the busiest city I’ve visited in a long time.
Here are a few tips for all you foodie travellers out there.
1 – A long weekend is a perfect amount of time in Istanbul. The weekend is manic and Le Tout Istanbul’s partying.
For the Culture Vultures – I’m no …
By Rob Pickard
Here at B Times, we love our food and wine and are equally partial to sunning ourselves on holiday. Sun, culture, food and wine… happy days! So when our Prosecco producer, Bisol, informed us of their plan to team up with Creative Escapes to offer top-notch, gastronomic holiday experiences to the Valdobbiadene region, we were eager to know more.
Like all good ideas, …
by Louise Hurren, http://www.masdelecriture.fr/blog-vignoble/
It’s high summer in the south of France, and seriously hot. Tourists and locals are sweltering under an officially-declared heat wave. What are owner-producer Pascal Fulla and winemaker Patrice Giorello of Languedoc’s Le Mas de l’Ecriture up to? They’re talking about climbing a mountain? It would make for some neat bottle shots, and the story could be put on …
by Gareth Groves
I am no expert when it comes to eating and drinking in Barcelona. In fact, I’ve only spent about five days there. So this is not an exhaustive, all-inclusive guide to one of Europe’s greatest cities. Instead, it is a short list of places I enjoyed eating and drinking at when I was there in June. Please feel free to add your own top …
by Gareth Groves
It may sound like a smutty seaside postcard, but in fact La Clape is a wonderful, seaside wine region very close to Narbonne in the South of France. A ‘defined terroir’ within the Coteaux du Languedoc AOC, La Clape is dominated by a modest mountain overlooking the Mediterranean, a mere 10km or so away. It is classic garrigue territory: dusty, hot earth populated by …
By James Martin
A healthy catch
Day one – Mistral Maze
Full of anticipation for the much talked about truffle hunting trip, courtesy of Cave Terraventoux, three Bibendumites and five of our guests arrived by plane into Nimes airport. Well, just about, as the infamous Mistral gave the plane a once over as we descended in, followed by the …
By Olivier Gasselin
View of Walker Bay from Hamilton Russell’s property
We’re excited to publish a series of extracts from Olivier’s wine rambling in South Africa. This time he visits Hermanus. Olivier is the Head Sommelier at the Bluebird in Chelsea.
We are still in Hermanus and our next mission: to visit Anthony Hamilton Russell. I have …
By Olivier Gasselin
Barto's vineyards
We’re excited to publish a series of extracts from Olivier’s wine rambling in South Africa. This time he visits Franschhoek & Hermanus. Olivier is the Head Sommelier at the Bluebird in Chelsea.
Next destination: Franschhoek (the French Quarter in Afrikaan). This is where French protestant immigrants arrived after leaving their country during the religious war.
Our first stop was …
By Olivier Gasselin
View from Graceland
We are happy to publish a series of extracts from Olivier’s wine rambling in South Africa. This time he visits Stellenbosch. …
