Archive for the Wines Category
BrewDog punk sanitiser
Posted in pictures, Wines with tags BrewDog, brewery, Britain, charity, coronavirus epidemics, craft beer, Ellon, punk IPA, sanitiser, Scotland, Scottish beer on March 25, 2020 by xi'an
Eidelwess Dunkel
Posted in Travel, Wines with tags Austria, brown beer, desert beer, Dunkel beer, Edelweiss, Salzburg, Weizenbier on March 20, 2020 by xi'an
Col d’Orcia
Posted in Wines with tags Butte aux Cailles, dinner, Italian restaurant, Italian wines, Paris, Rosso di Montalcino on February 20, 2020 by xi'an
Rooibos tax for aboriginal communities
Posted in Books, pictures, Travel, Wines with tags 150th anniversary, Alexander McCall Smith, Aspalathus, Botswana, Khoi people, Nature, N⁰1 Ladies Detective Agency, red tea, Rooibos, San people, South Africa on January 25, 2020 by xi'an
Just read in the 150th anniversary issue of Nature that the South African Government had agreed to a share of the rooibos tea profits be reversed to the aboriginal San and Khoi communities. Following a lengthy debate on whether or not rooibos tea was in use before European settlers invaded the area. I cannot remember when I started drinking rooibos but it may have been connected with reading my first book of the delicious Mma Ramotswe and the №1 Ladies Detective Agency series…! Which author, Alexander McCall Smith is a self-declared tea addict. (Since the story is located in Botswana, I have no idea whether or not tea is exported from this country and if the benefits reach the local communities.)
Natum
Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel, Wines with tags Agriverde, Italia, Italian wines, Montepulciano d'Abruzzo, Natum, organic wine, Roma on January 20, 2020 by xi'an
…place Dauphine…il est cinq heures, Paris s’éveille [jatp]
Posted in pictures, Travel, Wines with tags biking, France, Henri IV, Ile de la Cité, Jacques Dutronc, Paris, Pierre Curie, Place Dauphine, Pont-Neuf, Porte Dauphine, Rue Dauphine on November 21, 2019 by xi'an
Coume Marie La Préceptorie
Posted in pictures, Wines with tags carignan, côtes du Roussillon, Coume Marie, French wines, grenache, Languedoc-Roussillon, Syrah on November 20, 2019 by xi'an
