Monthly Archives: June 2022

Italians at The Glasshouse, Kew

Posted on 20/06/2022 by dccrossley

When you alight from the train from Central London at Kew Gardens station you cross the tracks and immediately feel you are in a village. The tall trees surrounding the station set the scene for the famous gardens down the … Continue reading →

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Recent Wines May 2022 (Part 2) #theglouthatbindsus

Posted on 16/06/2022 by dccrossley

In Part 2 of my roundup of the most interesting bottles we drank at home in, effectively, the second half of May, I find a Jura-heavy selection, three wines out of six. The remainder come from Moravia, Alsace and Hungary. … Continue reading →

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Recent Wines May 2022 (Part 1) #theglouthatbindsus

Posted on 14/06/2022 by dccrossley

Part 1 of the wines supped in and around home in May contains bottles which might, even by my own standards, be called eclectic. We begin in Georgia, drink a remarkably good, if secretive, cheap wine, a Freisa from Tortona, … Continue reading →

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London Wine Fair 2022 – Olympia as Dionysus Might Have Imagined It

Posted on 10/06/2022 by dccrossley

As I said in an Instagram post on Wednesday, the London Wine Fair is perhaps not my usual habitat, at least at first sight, but it does give me the opportunity to look outside my box and discover some new … Continue reading →

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Regenerative Viticulture by Dr Jamie Goode (Book Review)

Posted on 07/06/2022 by dccrossley

Regenerative Viticulture is a phrase being bandied around a lot right now, but it is sufficiently new, and current, for the majority of people, that many probably don’t really know exactly what it means. This is why Jamie Goode has, … Continue reading →

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