Daily Archives: March 2, 2009


I just love bad translations. Fans of the genre will no doubt be aware of the splendid Engrish.com, but this gem (I’ve actually stayed there) shows that places closer to England can come up with equally entertaining gobbledy-gook. Tomorrow I’m off to southern France for a couple of nights, to […]

Languedoc Linguistics


Highlight of a sedate weekend was a bottle of this wonderfully weird wine from eastern France. I mentioned the idea of ‘Yeah But No But’ Wines in this post and this blend of Chardonnay with the local grape Savagnin is most definitely one of those. Some people will loathe it, […]

Pierre Overnoy 1999 Arbois Pupillin