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Author Archives: dccrossley
Jura Week 3 – Fête du Biou at Vadans
The Fête du Biou is a rather special festival at harvest time in the Jura Region. It takes place in Arbois on the first Sunday in September, with a smaller version in Pupillin on the third Sunday. What is much … Continue reading
Posted in Jura, Wine, Wine Festivals, Wine Tastings, Wine Travel
Tagged Biou Ceremony, Fète du Biou, Jura, Jurawine, Marcel Hendrickx, Vadans
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Jura Week 2 – Hughes-Béguet
If Domaine de la Tournelle has now established itself firmly among the top names in Arbois, Domaine Hughes-Béguet is one of a select band of young producers who will one day gain similar recognition. Patrice gave up a job as … Continue reading
Jura Week 1 – Domaine de la Tournelle
I’ve just got home from my annual Jura trip. For the past three years I’ve visited the region around harvest time. It’s a chance to see what the current vintage is like. It’s less easy to visit busy producers, but … Continue reading
More odd bottles (and a few not so odd)
The last ten days worth of drinking, I mean wine exploration of course, has ranged from the sublime to the sublime, and from the very obscure to very classic. If the wines get more (sort of) normal over this period, … Continue reading
Posted in Wine
Tagged Apostelhoeve Riesling, Arndorfer Gruner Veltliner, Arndorfer Wagram, Beavertown Quelle, Boisard Fils Loire, Brain de Folie, Chianti Classico Riecine, Domaine du Mortier, Dutch Wine, Enkircher Ellergrub, Fortnum & Mason House Selection, Hegyi-Kalo, Hungarian Gruner Veltliner, Hungarian Wine, Mosel Wine, Navazos Niepoort 2012, Nick Cave Skeleton Tree, Palomino Blanco, Stockholm Lager, Taittinger Brut Reserve, Taittinger Champagne, The Kernel Table Beer, Weiser-Kunstler
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A Crush on You
When I wrote about the Red Squirrel portfolio tasting the other day, I promised to devote another piece entirely to the wonderful Okanagan Crush Pad. I think most of us are probably au fait with what the concept of a crush pad … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Tastings
Tagged Alberto Antonini, British Columbia Wine, Canadian Wine, Christine Coletta, Haywire Cannonview Pinot Noir, Haywire Free Form White, Haywire Switchback Pinot Gris, Haywire White Label Gamay, Matt Dumayne, Narrative Ancient Method 2013, Okanagan Crush Pad, Okanagan Valley, Steve Lornie
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It’s a Wonderful Life
I’m of an age, well, not too old, where I still remember as teenager sitting around with friends listening to vinyl, discovering together a passion for bands we’d never heard before. I guess people with a passion for all sorts … Continue reading
Posted in Dining, Wine
Tagged 28-50 Marylebone, Antinori Guado al Tasso 1995, Bairrada Branco Quinta das Bageiras 1994, Chassagne Caillerets 2010, Clonakilla Shiraz-Viognier 2005, Delamotte Blanc de Blancs 2004, Leoville-Las-Cases 1994, Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey, PYCM, St-Aubin En Remilly 2013
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It’s GGs and Reds Time Again
Howard Ripley’s tastings are always a contrast to many of the other Autumn events on the calendar. First of all, you can guarantee sedate surroundings, this time in the Pensions Room at Gray’s Inn, tucked behind High Holborn and the … Continue reading
Posted in German Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged Ayler Schonfels, Carl von Schubert, Donnhoff, German Red Wines 2014, Goldtropfchen, Grosse Gewachse 2015, Hermansholle GG, Howard Ripley, Jaspis Pinot Noir 2013, JJ Prum 2015, Julian Haart, Keller Hubacker, Klaus Peter Keller, Maximin Grunhaus, Maximin Grunhauser Spatburgunder 2014, Niederberg Helden, Peter Lauer, Schloss Lieser, Spätburgunder 2014, Thomas Haag, Ziereisen
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Nuts in Farringdon
Many readers will know of 67 Pall Mall. It’s a members club for lovers of fine wine. On the edge of the City, on Farringdon Street, under Holborn Viaduct in the arches long ago occupied by Oddbins’ Fine Wine shop … Continue reading
Posted in Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged Arnold Holzer, Bellwether Wines Coonawarra, Bioweingut Diwald, Champagne A Levasseur, Chateau Combel-la-Serre Cahors, Chateau L'Argentier Sommières, Dal Zotto King Valley, De Kleine Wijn Koöp, Eschenhof Holzer, Großriedenthal Wagram, Martin Diwald, Okanagan Crush Pad, Pasaeli, Pure Malbec, Red Squirrel Wines, Seyit Karagözoglu, Tim Manning, Turkish Wines, Valdonica Maremma, Winemakers Club Tasting Venue
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Post Holiday Blues Amelioration
When you’ve been somewhere nice and hot on holiday (see previous post) you really want summer to linger back home, and more or less that’s been the case, barring a few heavy showers. The parasol has been up and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Amphora Pinot Grigio, Anton van Klopper, Arnot-Roberts Trousseau, Austrian Beer, Austrian Wine, Basket Range, Batic Slovenia, Bota de Fino 54, Domaine Lucci Vino Rosso, Equipo Navazos, Foradori, Johanneshof Reinisch, Meinklang, Meinklang urkorn-bier, Pacta Connect, Pinot Grigio Fuoripista, Rotgipfler, Slovenian Wine, Thermenregion, Vipava Rose, Vipava Valley
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David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 