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Category Archives: Outside Roberson
On yer bike, son! – In praise of the bicycle.
In the 1980’s, Norman Tebbit advised the unemployed to ‘get on your bike and look for work’. My advice is, forget about work, get on your bike and look for wine. Touring wine country can take many forms, most often (out of practicality) people opt for a car. Having been to many wine regions in [...]
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A Trip to Champagne – Part II: Veuve Clicquot
Wandering Champagne connoisseur Marc Ditcham continues his epic two day journey with a visit to Veuve Clicquot. Missed part one? Catch up now… The next morning I woke early to a stifling room and a groggy head, not helped by the defunct air conditioning unit and certainly not helped by the whisky sours and the [...]
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A Trip to Champagne – Part I: Ruinart
Having been fortunate enough to be invited to join Moet Hennessy on a trip to Reims, Champagne in March I thought it was time to reflect and to share my experience of visiting two of the truly great Grand Marques; Ruinart and Veuve Cliquot. For many, waking up early on a Monday morning to face [...]
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The Road to Rhone – Day 1
You have got your passport haven’t you Mark? With those seven words horror passed through the car as we realized the long drive to Burgundy was going to get even longer. Still, the way I figured it, everyone is allowed to forget their passport once in their life, if you do it for a second [...]
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Dinner at L’Astrance, Paris
Continuing the Roberson ‘Hedonists Gazette’ part of the blog, it was with some excitement I sat down to lunch at L’Astrance, one of the most talked-about restaurants in France. Receiving its third Michelin star in 2006, this is a three star restaurant like no other, a fact that becomes clear very quickly. The dining room [...]
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Visiting Domaine Ott
It was a bit like turning up for a blind date, casting my eyes around Heathrow terminal five, trying to identify my companions for a trip to Domaine Ott, who, I realised I had no contact details for. Luckily, there seemed a group who looked like they had just met each other and were talking [...]
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Brotherhood of the Wine Socks
As a committed Burgundophile I have dreamed of one day being invited to join the ‘Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin’. It is a place where the crème de la crème of wine makers, merchants and writers come together to share the finest and rarest wines of Burgundy – and perhaps the world’s most illustrious drinking [...]
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A night at The Ledbury
During the month of August, The Ledbury restaurant in W11 has turned into the poshest BYOB in town and is charging zero corkage. So when a friend announced that he was organising his birthday dinner there, myself and Gav didn’t need asking twice. London isn’t short of great restaurants, but I have been meaning to [...]
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We Made It!
After three-and-a-half of the most exhausting, rewarding, painful, funny, emotionally draining, gorgeous, very long and hot days, we arrived in Paris. This has been an incredible experience for all four of us. We were with over a hundred people, all riding for their own charities. Some, very experienced club cyclists, on super road racers, aiming [...]
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Dom Perignon 2003
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