Dutch version.

For Colette, cooking is a real passion, a great way to share, discover and to meet. This book is built around the respect of the seasons and their products. Each of the 80 delicious recipe is accompanied by a wine pairing suggestion from Fiona Morrison, with wines from our Thienpont Selection. We wish you to be as inspired as we are, to share these delicious recipes with your loved ones and family, so that every day is a celebration.

French version.

For Colette, cooking is a real passion, a great way to share, discover and to meet. This book is built around the respect of the seasons and their products. Each of the 80 delicious recipe is accompanied by a wine pairing suggestion from Fiona Morrison, with wines from our Thienpont Selection. We wish you to be as inspired as we are, to share these delicious recipes with your loved ones and family, so that every day is a celebration.

Riedel glasses are known as a top brand throughout the wine industry. This 300 year old family company based in Austria was the first company to recognise that the taste of a wine is affected by the shape of the glass from which it is consumed. While we celebrate the pioneering work that Riedel has done in sculpting a glass to fit the attributes of a certain wine, we realise that the majority of our clients are looking for one high quality wine glass of perfect crystal. We have selected the Vinum Riesling Grand Cru glass as the most versatile shape for both red and white wines and even Champagnes. We appreciate its balance, its fine stem and the quality of the crystal. We hope you will take our recommendation if you are looking for new wine glasses.

For several years, Isabelle Motte, previously a well-known Pomerol wine producer and a great friend, has cultivated with great care a 10-hectare olive grove in the commune of Montalcino in southern Tuscany, right next to the famous Abbey of Sant'Antimo. This is a magic site for olive trees. The stony, clayey Tuscan soil with its very steep slopes enables the century old olive trees as well as the newly planted trees to grow in perfect conditions and produce olives of great quality. BACCIOLO olive oil is produced from a blend of five different varieties of olive: Olivastra, Leccino, Pendolino, Frantoio and the celebrated Moraiolo which makes up 70% of the blend. It is completely organic and unfiltered. Great attention is paid to each stage of the production process : for example to harvest the olives, BACCIOLO uses a machine which serves like an immense umbrella to catch the olives without them being bruised or harmed and which can be moved around the slopes very easily to ensure the olives are picked at optimum maturity. Each evening, the olives harvested that day are brought to the olive press where they are processed immediately. The oil is then transported back to the domain where it is transferred into stainless steel vats. After a month of stabilisation, the olive oil is bottled without filtration. Released while still very fresh, it can be enjoyed for two years after the date of the harvest. Isabelle has made a unique bottling for THIENPONT clients, originating from an adjoining parcel planted entirely with old Moraiolo olive trees called Poggio d'Arna which historically was known as Poggio d'Oro which translates as the golden hillside.