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About dccrossley

Writing here and elsewhere mainly about the outer reaches of the wine universe and the availability of wonderful, characterful, wines from all over the globe. Very wide interests but a soft spot for Jura, Austria and Champagne, with a general preference for low intervention in vineyard and winery. Other passions include music (equally wide tastes) and travel. Co-organiser of the Oddities wine lunches.

London Wine Fair 2018 Part 1 – Esoterica

Posted on 22/05/2018 by dccrossley

It’s that time of year when the London Wine Fair comes to London’s Olympia. For anyone who has never been, it’s an enormous three day event, boasting 14,000 wines from 40 countries. The vast “trading floor” has many gems among the diaspora … Continue reading →

Canada House

Posted on 18/05/2018 by dccrossley

Canada House, not a dance music sub-genre, although a few readers might not be too surprised if I went off on a different subject, but the venue yesterday for the Taste Canada 2018 event, organised wonderfully well by Westbury Communications. It featured thirty-seven … Continue reading →

Posted in Canadian Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Tastings | Tagged Annapolis Valley Nova Scotia, British Columbia Wine, Canadian Icewine, Canadian Wine, CheckMate Artisanal Winery, Domaine Neige Québec, Gaspereau Valley Nova Scotia, Haywire wines, Hidden Bench Estate Winery, Ice Cider, Ice Cidre, Icewine, Inniskillin Wines, LaStella Winery, Le Vieux Pin Okanagan, Lightfoot & Wolfville Vineyards, Liquidity Wines, Luckett Vineyards, Martin's Lane winery, Megalomaniac Wines, Mission Hill, Niagara Peninsula, Norman Hardie Winery, Nova Scotia Wine, Okanagan Crush Pad, Okanagan Valley, Ontario Wine, Painted Rock Estate, Pillitteri Estate Winery, Poplar Grove Okanagan, Prince Edward County VQA, Severine Pinte, Taste of Canada 2018, Tidal Bay Nova Scotia | 1 Comment

Vegan Wine…What?

Posted on 15/05/2018 by dccrossley

Yes, Vegan Wine. As my family is vegan, I eat a largely plant-based diet, although the fundamentalists among them are still horrified that I am prone to lapses when out at wine functions, or in desperate need of cheap chocolate. … Continue reading →

Posted in Natural Wine, Vegan Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine and Health | Tagged Biercraft, Indigo Wine (Importer), Vegan Viticulture?, Vegan Wine, Vegan Winemaking, Wine Labeling | 8 Comments

Otros Vinos, Spring 2018: Spain’s Wild Frontier

Posted on 09/05/2018 by dccrossley

Over the past few years there has been a genuine widening of what wine lovers are prepared to consider exciting and ground breaking in the world of wine. The natural wine movement has drawn attention to hundreds of small time … Continue reading →

Posted in Natural Wine, Spanish Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings | Tagged Airen Wines, Alpujarras Wine, Bodega Cauzon Granada, Brisat Wines, Clot de les Soleres, Costador Terroirs, Fabio Bartolomei, Forcallat Grape Variety, Granada Wine, High Altitude Vines, Los Comuns Priorat, Marenas Montilla, Metamorphika Label, Morenillo Grape Variety, Natural Wine, Otros Vinos Spring Portfolio 2018, Purulio Granada, Ramon Saavedra, Spanish Artisan Wines, Spanish Wine, Sumoll, Sumoll Blanc, Torcuato Huertas, Verdevique Las Alpujarras, Vigiriego Grape Variety, Vina Enebro Bullas, Vinos Ambiz Sierra de Gredos, Vinos Patio La Mancha, Wine Tastings | 1 Comment

Nepal – A Month Drinking Differently

Posted on 04/05/2018 by dccrossley

Take a fish out of water and it stops breathing, but what happens if you place an avid wine drinker into an environment where there frankly isn’t much wine, or at least not the kind of wine readers of this … Continue reading →

Posted in Nepal, Wine, Wine Travel | Tagged Chang Rice Beer, Drinking in Nepal, Kathmandu, Khukri Rum, Nepal, Nepalese Beers, Old Durbar Whisky, Pataleban Vineyard, Sam's Bar Thamel, Sherpa Craft Beer, Tongba Article Link, Wine in Nepal | 1 Comment

Recent Wines (March/April 2018) #theglouthatbindsus

Posted on 09/04/2018 by dccrossley

For my last article for around three weeks I am going to clear the decks with some more fascinating recent wines. What to leave out proved difficult, so there are fourteen here. I’ll try not to waffle too much. I’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Artisan Wines, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies | Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Alsace Sylvaner, Austrian Petnat, Baptiste Cousin, Best Austrian Sekt, Bota de Florpower 44 Equipo Navazos, Camillo Donati Malvasia, Céline Gormally, Ce Marrin 2016, Chasselas Doré in Spain, Domaine Julien Meyer, Domaine Le Batossay Anjou, Dominique Lucas, Dynamitage, Ebner-Ebenauer Sekt, Equipo Navazos, Fabio Bartolomei, Florian Lauer Faß 16, Florpower, Knoll Loibner Gelber Muskateller Auslese, Les Dolomies Côtes du Jura Passenans, Les Vignes de Paradis, Loire Gamay, Malvasia Frizzante "Il Mio", Manzanilla Pasada Bota 80, Meinklang Foam, natural wines, New Zealand Chardonnay, Peter Lauer Riesling Faß 16, Recent Wines, Riverby Chardonnay 2011, Riverby Estate Marlborough, Savoie Chasselas, Sierra de Gredos Wine, Starvecrow Cider, Starvecrow Pét Nat Cyder, Steve Gormally, Sussex Cider, Sylvaner L'Hermitage Patrick Meyer, Trousseau, Trousseau "En Rollion" Les Dolomies, Vinos Ambiz Doris, Wines of Lac Léman, Zellberg Nothalten | 1 Comment

Bursting Bubbles – Robert Walters, and Some Thoughts on the Grower Champagne Philosophy

Posted on 04/04/2018 by dccrossley

You will recall that I made Champagne by Peter Liem my wine book of last year. That expertly written book which puts terroir at its heart was the outstanding work on wine, in my view, in the whole of 2017. Bursting Bubbles by Australian author Robert Walters follows a similar … Continue reading →

Posted in Champagne, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine Books, Wine Writing | Tagged Anselme Selosse, Bursting Bubbles, Cedric Bouchard, Champagne, Champagne Books, Champagne Grower, Champagne Philosophy, Champagne Terroir, Grower Champagne, Jerome Prevost, Peter Liem Champagne, Robert Walters, Wine writing | 3 Comments

The Great German Pinot Noir Tasting

Posted on 28/03/2018 by dccrossley

Pretty much every time I go to a Tasting of German wines we see a few reds tacked on to the end, and I suppose that’s how reds have been seen in the past when it comes to the UK … Continue reading →

Posted in German Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Tastings | Tagged ABS Wine Agencies, Ahr Wine, Anne Krebiehl MW, Awin Barratt Siegel, Bernhart Pfalz, Efringen-Kirchen Wines, Fürst Franken, German Pinot Noir, German Pinot Noir Tasting, Hanspeter Ziereisen, Holger Koch Baden, Howard Ripley, Jülg Pfalz, Jean Stodden Ahr, Kaiserstuhl, Karl H Johner Baden, Keller Spätburgunder S, Maximin Grunhaus, Rainer Schnaitmann Württemberg, Ruwer Red Wine, Schweigen-Rechtenbach Wine, Shelter Winery Kenzingen Baden, Spätburgunder, Ziereisen Baden, Ziereisen Jaspis | 6 Comments

Recent Wines (February 2018) #theglouthatbindsus

Posted on 23/03/2018 by dccrossley

I’m a little bit behind again with my regular pieces on recent wines drunk at home, so here I’ll mention just eight stars from February, along with a clutch of wines we drank last Saturday night (which deserve not to … Continue reading →

Posted in Artisan Wines, Natural Wine, Wine | Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Bugey Chardonnay, Claus Preisinger, Clot de les Soleres, Comando G El Tamboril 2014, COS Pithos Rosso, COS Sicily, Costador Terroirs, Domaine des Marnes Blanches, Franck Peillot, Gilles Barge Cote Rotie Du Plessy 2006, Hegyikalo Oroksegul, Julie Balagny, Jura Wine, Lopez de Heredia Tondonia 1994, Metamorphika, New Forest Dining, New Forest restaurants, Recent Wines, Simone C'est Moi, Sumoll Blanc Brisat, The East End Arms Lymington, Weissburgunder Erdeluftgrasundreben, Xarel-lo Ancestral | 4 Comments

Raw London 2018 Part 2

Posted on 19/03/2018 by dccrossley

This is the second part of my selection from Raw Wine London 2018, the first part of which precedes this article. Here we have eleven more producers from the weekend before last’s event at The Store on London’s Strand. All but one are … Continue reading →

Posted in Artisan Wines, Canadian Wine, Czech Wine, Japan, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Festivals, Wine Tastings | Tagged Alex Koppitsch, Andy Fausto Oltrepo Pavese, Basket Press Wines, Batic Vipava Slovenia, British Columbia Wine, Burgess & Hall, Canadian Wine, Clot de les Soleres, Czech Wine, Dobra Vinice Moravia, Domaine Ligas, Fabio Bartolomei, Furanxo, Greek Macedonian Wine, Japanese Sake Suppliers, Jaroslav Osika Moravia, Jason Ligas, Ktima Ligas, Lombardy Wine, Magula Family winery Slovakia, Maria Koppitsch, Meinklang, Moravian Wine, Natural Wine, Okanagan Crush Pad, orange wines, Otros Vinos, Raw Wine London 2018, Red Squirrel Wines, skin contact wines, Slovakian Wine, Ueno Gourmet Sake, Vinos Ambiz Gredos, Winemakers Club | 5 Comments

Author Archives: dccrossley

About dccrossley

Canada House

Vegan Wine…What?

Otros Vinos, Spring 2018: Spain’s Wild Frontier

Nepal – A Month Drinking Differently

Recent Wines (March/April 2018) #theglouthatbindsus

Bursting Bubbles – Robert Walters, and Some Thoughts on the Grower Champagne Philosophy

The Great German Pinot Noir Tasting

Recent Wines (February 2018) #theglouthatbindsus

Raw London 2018 Part 2

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