Sixteen blissful years on Islay…
I am selling my lovely house. I bought it in 2001. It was an empty shell. Nothing was right. It had to be completely gutted. …
Musings
NB SPIRITS 2022: MY GRAND FINALE
We were all waiting for it impatiently. The pandemic kept the New-Brunswick Spirits Festival silent for three long years. But in November this year, at …
TIPSY TEA IN SPEYSIDE
The 2022 edition of the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival early May was a wonderful opportunity to catch up with many friends of the whisky …
VENICE: LIVING THE DREAM
There is not a better place to celebrate a birthday than Venice. Spending a week in the amazingly quiet post-covid “Most Serene” (I prefer the …
LIVE COOKING & TASTING WITH OTTAWA WHISKY LOVERS
What a delight to invite 45 people to my home kitchen ! As a pre-Burns event, I cooked two dishes which I paired with two …
I will not regret 2021
We are approaching to the end of the year 2021. At last ! I must say that I will not regret this year. Looking back …
WINTER ON ISLAY
No whisky musings this time, just my thoughts on the Islay Winter. As much as I love living on Islay, there are days I curse …
BACK ON THE WHISKY TRAIL
After nearly two years of being “mothballed” as the pandemic deprived us from organizing Whisky events, The Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival just gave me …
A visit to Monk’s House
This Summer, I made a fabulous visit to Virginia Woolf’s house (Monk’s House) in Rodmell near Lewes (East Sussex). Virginia and her husband Leonard Woolf …
à table en FRANCAIS
“à table, le whisky, du verre à l’assiette” arrive en France fin octobre… Vous en rêviez? Je l’ai fait. Publié à compte d’auteur parce que …