Wines you might enjoy for the winter (whites too!)

Wines you might enjoy for the winter (whites too!)

  Dear reader, How’s it going over there? Well. It’s cold. Really cold. And gloomy. If it wasn’t for the fact I’m always thinking of wine, maybe I’d have gone for stronger drinks this winter! Here in Lisbon, from where I’m writing to you, things are not as bad as...
This is why we drink Champagne on New Year’s Eve

This is why we drink Champagne on New Year’s Eve

Dear reader, Happy 2021!, and cheers to a year that should (I said should) be less chaotic than 2020 and bring us hope over the fears and losses that came from the pandemic. It’s time to celebrate what we have achieved and what we are looking forward to do. And what’s...
Wine and food pairing ideas for your Christmas

Wine and food pairing ideas for your Christmas

] Dear reader, First and foremost, happy Christmas! 2020 has been such an uncertain year. Celebrating family and the good things in life in any way we can is so deserved. With good wine and food, even more. Whether you are planning to hold a small gathering with your...
Ten wine books to read during holidays

Ten wine books to read during holidays

(Photo by Michal Osmenda on Wikimedia Commons) Dear reader, We’ve been spending quite a lot of time at home. There’s the pandemic, and we’re all some sort of quarantined. There’s the true winter coming. Personally, for me nothing beats reading a nice book in the couch...