Once a year we escape from sunny Vauxhall and head out into the country for the Goedhuis Away Day. As the empire now stretches as far afield as Hong Kong

Our last buying trip covered much of northern Italy including Barolo, Barbaresco, Valpolicella, Prosecco, Alto Adige and Friuli. I have fortunately been to Piedmont

We have just received an email offering us 2 bottles of Ch Lafite Rothschild BLANC 1959 for 2395 euros. I must be one of the very few people ever to have drunk this wine.

Hemingway is reputed to have drunken A LOT which is interesting because in novels such as A Moveable Feast he commented on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s consumption

Though most wine drinkers of the world know of Prosecco, they do not realize that it went through a crisis around two years ago. With the dwindling economy