Greetings and welcome to your official blog site!

It was Tisha de Borja (now properly known as Mrs. Samson) who first started using the name “Cyrano friends” to identify all the folks who have staked their claim to our wine shop. It later acquired special meaning thanks to her mom, who innocently called our place Cheers after observing that, around here, everyone seems to know your name.

But who exactly are you, Cyrano friends? Quite a cosmopolitan collection of folks, it turns out. For starters, there’s Tisha’s Totally Spies!, our girl-power group of professionals who pledge to someday save Philippine society through great architecture, sophisticated fashion, intelligent journalism, inspirational art and, last but not least, really good food. In contrast, Dale’s Vespa Riders aspire to nothing more idealistic than to zip along on their cool Italian scooters with leggy Brazilian babes holding on. For advice on matters of the heart, make your appointment with the group known only as The Gang. Representing the Japanese community, our merry compadre Mr. Shimizu is a category all on his own, while The Eric & Cara Show is spreading the word about us among the citizens of Singapore.

And the list of friends goes on (sincere apologies to all whom we have yet to mention), all of you so different and yet so connected by the same passion for wine and living. Hence this blog/newsletter, which we hope will further our togetherness by keeping everyone up-to-date on anything and everything that goes on in your favorite wine shop.

All for one and one for all. Saluté!

Alex Sawit