by PeterMurtagh-user | Jan 24, 2023 | Blog
January 21st 2023, Paita, Peru. Paita on the north coast of Peru close to the border with Ecuador is a place easily overlooked. Its small enough not to make much of a dent on most maps — even though it calls itself a city and has a population close to 200,000...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Jan 23, 2023 | Blog
December 14th 2022, Buin, near SantiagoOne of the reasons I wanted to visit the Santa Rita vineyard was something their main man in Ireland, Terry Pennington, said to me a while back about climate change, the drought and how the company was trying to mitigate the...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Jan 21, 2023 | Blog
January 7th 2023, Valparaiso Jaime de la Barra strokes the leaves on a row of cabernet sauvignon vines with his open palm, in a loving and gentle way, the way he might stroke his daughter’s hair. If [the rustle] sounds like paper,” he says, “too much...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Jan 20, 2023 | Blog
January 19th 2023, Pacasmayo, northern Peru.I spent a little time today seeking to reassure various people, not least my wife Moira that, whatever they might hear about Peru over the coming days, I was OK, far removed from the likely epicenter and well on my way out...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Jan 16, 2023 | Blog
Cusco and Machu PichuThe mountains nestle Cusco in their palm.The arms of three great Andean cordilleras — Vilcabamba, Urubamba and Vilcanola — come together and where they meet, there is something of a natural bowl in the landscape. That’s where...
