Since 2007 the Rhone region has seen nothing but very good to excellent vintages, with consistent quality and age worthy capabilities with the most exciting new wines coming from upstart producers like Michel Gassier and his sidekick Phillip Cambie. But there are others. Alain Jaume, long a family with holdings in Chateauneuf du Pape and … Read more
Grenache Blanc. Grenache Gris. Two different grapes. Two different tastes. The 2010 Les Enfants Sauvages Cotes Catalanes Blanc is a delightful wine that comes from the Roussillion region outside of Perpignan, France. Vinified freshly and in a nice dry style, to me, this wine can rival some of the best whites anywhere. Loaded with sub-tropical … Read more
Last night at Murano in London the wine of the night was the 2010 J.J. Prum Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Auslese. The lovely orange and lime citrus flavors, all encased in a delightful honey on the mouthfeel made it delightful. Prum for years has been one of the Mosel region’s star producers and the 2010 release … Read more
While the winter months mean dormant vineyards, this time of the year is the key selling season for winemakers, as they get to show off wines both in bottle and barrel. No event is bigger for a wine region than Decouvertes du Rhone, the every other year Rhone Valley four day extravaganza that takes place … Read more
I arrived in Milan at the Malpensa Airport planning on buying a local SIM to trial against my Truphone SIM. Sadly, finding anything other than a full size or Micro SIM was not in the cards this Sunday morning. Fortunately, I already had a TIM SIM that still had about 11 Euros of credit that … Read more
Image via CrunchBase I read today on Pocket-Lint how Skype is slowly rolling out video messaging. WOW. What a non-starter. Back in the mid 2000's when we worked with SightSpeed that was one of the standard features in what has to be now viewed as one of the original cloud or hosted video communications platforms. … Read more
So Facebook is again trying to become a bigger part of people's lives with free member to member calling in the USA. That means they're still not doing what Skype does, but this is today. What Facebook is doing is pretty much ICQ era presence and ICQ era voice calling. See the person online, connect and talk. … Read more
My friends have arrived in Lisbon, well some of them anyway, and where a few years ago BlackBerry BBM was the way we all would have been staying in touch what seems to be the common denominator isn’t even the globally popular WhatsApp, the OTT SMS service, but instead its Apple’s iMessage. And, its not … Read more
After almost two years of using SFR on iPhones in a prepaid environment that started with an iPhone 3G and on everyone iPhone since, yesterday when I used my top up recharge coupon, nothing happened. Well actually a lot did.First the online system was giving me a different audio message. Then the top up/recharge worked … Read more
First thing I did on Saturday after an amazing overnight flight from LAX to London’s Heathrow airport and checking into the Heathrow Sofitel, the property that is on my short list of great airport hotels, just behind Munich’s Kempenski, was find a nano data only SIM for my iPad Mini. That led too a short … Read more
