Loire wine: bike through the French valley of castles and vineyards
Swirling through the French Loire Valley on a bicycle can dilute the guilt one feels on most wine tasting trips. You are not just pouring litres of the Loire wine […]
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Global sommelier Manuel Rodrigues: From Chablis through Dubai, Singapore to Tokyo
“The winemaker should touch the wine the less as is possible. I believe, that the nature is expressed the most.” Manuel Rodrigues With a fortunate hands-on experience working on a […]
Musing on Darkness that is Beautiful
Art celebrates darkness in its own obscure way and perhaps this is why we need it. Great art mirrors humanity better than reason does. The entire colour palette of emotional […]
Best mindfulness practices that will elevate your life
Ancient, tested mindfulness practices from the east Meditation can be difficult, too high a hurdle to jump over without collapsing during the time-consuming failing attempts. It reacquires discipline and practice. […]
Why are we happier at home than in a house: the difference between a mental and physical abode
I want to challenge your concept of a home. Home is a soulful feeling, an expansion of one’s heart in place and time, beyond the doors, walls and anything that […]
Kichisen: refreshing the taste and style of traditional Kyoto-style kaiseki
My photo below tells it all: the focused gaze of the Kichisen’s master chef Yoshimi Tanigawa shows how much focus goes into his food and how much he cares to […]
Liberty: indulgence and illusion of a bohemian mind
Poets and philosophers, the deep free souls of myriad kingdoms, republics, commonwealths and other forms of geographical identities, wrote about the desire for liberty. Politicians entered the quest, playing with […]
Attention disrupted: grow resilience in the age of distractions
Attention can feel surprisingly spacious, almost boundless. It can be focused but also divided (multi-tasking, stress), and certainly it can be disrupted by various causes. Yet, ironically narrowing your focus […]
Post-truth: the quality of being true in the fake news and self-PR era
In this overstimulating information age of social media and fake news the danger of unchecked ignorance looms over our wellbeing. Now that we get all the truth about the world […]
Corison winery: making wine sustainably by the best female winemaker in America
Cathy Corison is widely viewed as the best female winemaker in America. She parades an elegant stride of Napa Cab as nobody else in the valley. Her wines are always […]