I am a 59 year old Englishman, passionate about food and wine! I love many French wines, especially from Bordeaux, Bergerac and Alsace. I love to try to find fine old clarets and I adore the Gewurztraminer grape. I have an opportunity regularly to buy wines in Crozes Hermitage and Hermitage and rarely pass this up!

I enjoy Australian and South African wines and wish I knew more about them. I know so little about American wine and there are so many; however, we learn by drinking them so I am doing as much learning as is good for me. I hope this site will help to educate me about US wines.

One of the things I love most about wine is that the more you learn, the more you discover there is to find out. You can never know it all.

I am an enthusiastic collector of interesting wine with a cellar sufficient to keep me going for about 50 years at a bottle a night! If I die aged 108 having consumed the last bottle, I shall be a happy man.

Margaux, St Emilion, Pomerol. Alsace Reisling and especially Gewurztraminer. Some amazing South African wines and a few special Crozes Hermitage and Cotes du Rhone. I love old Gran Reserva Rioja, Tarragona and Tempranillo and am lucky to have bought some from 1998, 2000 and 2001 for very little money as they are not fashionable in England and anathema in France. They are powerful wines and one can't drink them with everything (alas!). I am looking forward to finishing the 1998 as the 2000 is better and the 2001 even better than that.