Hobbies

Birding, wine & food travel, photography, and plotting schemes to run a micro-negociant 🌱🍷.

• Wine: Burgundy, Bordeaux (so untrendy it’s now trendy…), Barolo and Barbaresco, Etna, Granite Belt, Lambrusco (it’s better than you think…), McLaren Vale, oxidative whites, Ribeira Sacra, Rioja, …
  
• Food: currently particularly keen about the cuisines of Emilia-Romagna and Piemonte; also French, Japanese, Singaporean, Malaysian, Sichuan, and Cantonese (Guandong Province).
• Reading: Terry Pratchett, GK Chesterton, Kazuo Ishiguro, Robert McFarlane, Sara Wheeler, …