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Monthly Archives: March 2023
Recent Wines March 2023 (Part 2) #theglouthatbindsus
After a bulkier eight-wine Part 1 we have a slightly lighter Part 2 encompassing wines from Alsace (2), The English Midlands, The Loire, The Mosel and Burgenland. I guess in drinking so much more Alsace than I was a year … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Vinegar, Artisan Wines, biodynamic wine, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies
Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Alex and Maria Koppitsch Neusiedl-am-See, Alsace Wine, Artisan Cider Vinegar, Austrian Natural Wine, Bernard Baudry Chinon, Burgenland Wine, Cabernet Franc, Chinon Clos Guillot 2020 Bernard Baudry, Chinon Wine, Czech Artisan Vinegar Utopia, Dornfelder in Mosel, English Petnat, English Sparkling Red Wine, Jan-Philipp Bleeke Red Aquarius, Jérôme François Winemaker Ostheim, JPB Winemaking Traben Trabach, Koppitsch Wine Perspektive Weiss 2020, La Grange de L'Oncle Charles Alsace 2019, Lambert Spielmann Epfig, Loire Wine, Mariage Plus Vieux 2020 Lambert Spielmann, Matt Gregory Ancestral Red Petnat 2021, Matt Gregory Winemaker Leicestershire, Matthieu Baudry winemaker, Mosel Red Wine, New Natural Wine Mosel, Recent Wines March 2023 Pt 2, Utopia Drinking Vinegars, Wine in Leicestershire
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New British Wine by Abbie Moulton with Maria Bell (Book Review)
The back cover of Abbie Moulton and Maria Bell’s book proclaims that “British food has had its revolution. Now is the time for British wine”. It goes on to say that “British Wine” was once shorthand for imported grape mush … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, English Wine, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Books, Wine Writing
Tagged Abbie Moulton Author, British Low Intervention Winemaking, British Wine's Innovators and disruptors, Maria Bell Photographer, Natural Wines in the UK, New at Hoxton Mini Press, New British Wine book by Abbie Moulton, New Wine Books 2023, Wine Book (English Welsh British Wine), Wine Writing British Wine
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Like a Child in a Sweet Shop – Made From Grapes and Sevslo Wine, Glasgow
If you have been reading this blog recently you will probably have seen my piece on Vanessa Letort and her “Du Vin aux Liens” project, and the wine journey that flowed from my discovery of this wine collective and all … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Heroes, Wine Merchants, Wine Shops, Women in Wine
Tagged Glasgow wine shop, Liam Hanlon, Made from Grapes Glasgow, Natural Wine in Glasgow, Natural Wine in Scotland, Séverine Sloboda, Scottish Wine Importer, Sevslo Wine, Small Producer Wine Importer Scotland, Women in Wine
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Recent Wines February 2023 (Part 2) #theglouthatbindsus
Part Two of the wines we drank at home in February takes us to ground mostly not covered in Part One. We begin in Austria’s Rust, then Georgia’s Imereti, before we travel back to Alsace. Realising I’d not been drinking … Continue reading
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Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Adeline Houillon Pupillin, Alice & Olivier De Moor Courgis, Alsace Riesling, Alsace Wine, Austrian Wine, Baia's Wine, Bruyère-Houillon Ploussard 2017, Bugey Molette, Burgenland Furmint, Caroline Ledédenté Bugey, Chablis Humeur du Temps 2018, David Keoberlé, De Moor Chablis, Domaine Muller Koeberlé Saint-Hippolyte, Farid Yahimi, Fred #8 Strekov 1075, Furmint Aus Dem Quarz Wenzel, Georgian Wine, Gvantsa Abuladze, Gvantsa's Wine Imereti, Jura Ploussard, Jura Wine, Otskhanuri Grape Variety, Raoni Riesling, Recent Wines February 2023 (Pt2), Reynaud Bruyère Pupillin, Ruster Wine, Slovakian Wine, Sons of Wine Alsace, Southern Bugey Wine, Strekov Fred Red Blend, Table by Caroline Ledédenté, Weinbau Wenzel Rust, Zsolt Suto
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Recent Wines February 2023 (Part 1) #theglouthatbindsus
Time seems to be zipping forward quite swiftly in 2023, especially as the evenings are noticeably lighter here now, though it seems that winter’s icy claws are about to grip tightly once more, hopefully a last-gasp before proper spring. The … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, English Wine, Hungarian Wine, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies
Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Adrian Pike Westwell Wines Kent, Alsace Wine, Annamaria Reka-Koncz, Breaky Bottom Oliver Minkley 2011, Catherine Riss, Du Vin aux Liens Vanessa Letort, Early Unfortified Palomino, English Sparkling Wine, Equipo-Navazos, Hungarian Wine, Kekfrankos Eastern Hungary, La Table Rouge Babylone 2019, Libre Comme L'Air Pinot Noir, Meinklang Pamhagen Burgenland, Meinklang Vulkan #2, Natural Wine, Navazos-Niepoort Blanco 2014 (mag), Palomino Fino, Peter Hall Breaky Bottom Sussex Wine, Pineau d'Aunis, Recent Wines Feb 23 Pt1, Reka-Koncz A Change of Heart, Somlo Wine Hungary, Westwell Pelegrim New Release
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David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 