The Narrow Corner

Friday, 17 March 2023

The Wines of Central and Southern Spain: A Review

The first book I bought in the Classic Wine Library series was Richard Mayson’s Port and the Douro . I used to read it in r...
Roppongi

A lone white-haired Japanese man in a shiny grey suit reels across the station concourse, somehow contriving to stay uprigh...
13 Travel Tips For Visitors to Japan

1. Skip Tokyo Japan’s capital is gigantic, heaving with people, stressful and ugly. The high points (Meiji-jingu, Hama-rikyu Gar...
The Real Mary King's Close

The room is small, dark and dingy and smells of earth, damp and dust. It’s hardly surprising, when you consider that I had to walk down...
The Less Famous Veltliner

I was standing on a bank by the side of a sloping and narrow kellergasse (a road bordered by old wine cellars) in Fels am Wagram. ...
Cairanne

Several months ago I spent about forty pounds on a bottle of Guigal's Châteauneuf du Pape blanc. I almost never spend th...
The Craze for Japan

In a glass cabinet inside a magnificent white room in the centre of London there is a book. It was published over a hundred years ago, to ...
Wines of Austria

The view from the rooftop terrace above the National Museum of Scotland is special. Within throwing distance to the west is Greyfria...
The Emperor of Wine

Edinburgh Central Library is in the heart of the city’s Old Town, a tourist mecca. A stone’s throw from the entrance, visitors wil...