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Category Archives: Artisan Wines
Autentikfest 2022, Moravia
I’ve just returned from a trip to Moravia in the south of the Czech Republic. The main reason for going was an invitation to Autentikfest 2022, the wine festival for the Czech natural wine movement, but whilst there I also … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, biodynamic wine, Cider, Czech Wine, Natural Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine and Food, Wine Festivals, Wine Tastings, Wine Tourism, Wine Travel
Tagged Autentikfest Moravia 2020, Basket Press Wines, Boleradice Moravia, Czech Natural Wine Festival, Euforia Birch Sap, Mutenice, Utopia Ciders, Utopia Vinegars, Vykoukal
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Journey Through the Past to get Lost in a Field
Back at the end of May I was wandering around the Tobacco Dock venue for the Real Wine Fair and I happened to spy Tim Wildman. I have been a fan of his Aussie Petnats for ages, so I thought … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, English Wine, Grape Varieties, Petnat, Rosé, Sparkling Wine, Wine
Tagged England's Heritage Grape Varieties, English and Welsh Petnat, English and Welsh Wine, English Petnat, English Wine, English Wine in the 1980s, Lost in a Field Frolic Petnat 2021, Lost in a Field Tim Wildman, Madeleine Angevine, Sunday Times Handbook of Wine, The Lost Vineyard Project, Tim Wildman, Wildman Wine
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Recent Wines, Off-Topic
Why off-topic? My “Recent Wines” articles are almost exclusively made up of wines drunk at home, and the ten wines here were drunk on two evenings last week whilst staying with friends in the New Forest. But perhaps “off-topic” also … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Natural Wine, Wine
Tagged Australian Petnat, Ballot-Millot Aligoté 2019, Ballot-Millot Meursault, Bornard Arbois-Pupillin, Carema, Casot des Mailloles Rosé de Zaza XX, Champagne Michel Gonet Blanc de Blancs 2012, Chateau Haut-Bailly Pessac-Léognan 1999, Domaine des Bodines Vin Jaune 2011, Ferrando Carema Black Label 2016, Frühburgunder 2019 David Crossley, Ganevat La Bubulle à Jeannot Petnat, Rosé from Banyuls, Tim Wildman, Trousseau Le Ginglet 2016 Bornard, Wildman Wine Piggy Pop
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Recent Wines June 2022 (Part 2) #theglouthatbindsus
Part 2 of June’s “Recent Wines” is, as a half-dozen, perhaps, almost as diverse as it can be, although I’m sure someone will be there to shoot down that statement with regard to origin (no Americans, Africans or Antipodeans). I … Continue reading
Posted in Alsace, Artisan Wines, English Wine, Hungarian Wine, Japan, Languedoc-Roussillon, Natural Wine, Swiss Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies
Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Alsace Wine, Black Chalk Wild Rose 2017, Côtes Catalanes, Chasselas Grape Variety, Chateau Mercian Yamanashi, Christian Binner Ammerschwihr, Christian Binner Si Rose, Domaine de la Maison Blanche, Fenouillèdes Agly Valley, Fuefuki District Yamanashi, Hampshire Wine, Hegyi-Kaló Cseresznyeérés Rosé 2018, Hegyi-Kaló Eger, Hungarian Wine, Jacob Leadley, Japanese Wine, Koshu Grape Variety, La Côte Wines Switzerland, Le Soula Blanc 2016, Le Soula Roussillon, Mont-sur-Rolle Vaud, Recent Wines June 2022 (Pt 2), Swiss Wines, Yamanashi Wine, Yves and Antoine de Mestral
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Recent Wines June 2022 (Part 1) #theglouthatbindsus
June saw a very interesting bunch of wines drunk at home, but equally, it saw us drinking a lot of repeats, wines I’ve already written about. So, we have just five wines in this first selection of wines drunk at … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Austrian Wine, English Wine, German Wine, Sparkling Wine, Vienna, Wiener Gemischter Satz, Wieninger, Wine, Wine Agencies
Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Breaky Bottom Cuvée David Pearson 2015, Breaky Bottom Vineyard Sussex, English Sparkling Wine, Filippo Rondinelli and Nicola Laconi, Friedrich Becker Schweigen, Friedrich Becker Winemaker, Fritz Wieninger Winemaker, German Pinot Noir, Hanspeter Ziereisen, Ligurian Wine, Peter Hall Winemaker, Pfalz Spätburgunder, Pigato, Recent Wines June 2022 (Pt 1), Riviera Ligure di Ponente, Sussex Wine, Terre Blanche, Vienna Wine, Wiener Gemischter Satz, Wiener Wein, Wieninger Bisamberg 2016, Ziereisen Blauer Spätburgunder 2017, Ziereisen Markgräferland Baden
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Recent Wines May 2022 (Part 2) #theglouthatbindsus
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
Posted in Alsace, Arbois, Artisan Wines, Czech Wine, Hungarian Wine, Jura, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies
Tagged Alice Bouvot Vigneronne, Alsace Wine, Annamária Réka-Koncz Hungary, Arbois Wine, Czech Wine, Domaine de la Tournelle, Domaine des Bodines Arbois Chardonnay 2015, Evelyne Clairet, Hungarian natural sparkling wine, Jean-Pierre Rietsch Mittelbergheim, L'Uva Arbosiana 2020, Moravian Wine, Natural Wine in Alsace, Petr Korab Ambero 2020, Petr Koráb Boleradice, Réka Koncz Robin 2020, Sylvaner Zotzenberg 2014, Zotzenberg Sylvaner Grand Cru
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Recent Wines May 2022 (Part 1) #theglouthatbindsus
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
Posted in Artisan Wines, Austrian Wine, Californian Wine, Georgian Wine, Italian Wine, Natural Wine, Piemonte, Spanish Wine, Vienna, Wiener Gemischter Satz, Wine, Wine Agencies
Tagged Aladasturi, Baia's Wine, Bechtold Vineyard Lodi, Birichino Cinsaut Pétulant Naturel, Birichino Petnat, Braghé da Uve Freisa Claudio Mariotto, California Petnat, Colli Tortonese Freisa, Gvantsa's Wine, Imereti Georgia, Jutta Ambrositsch Satellit 2018 Field Blend, Jutta Ambrositsch Vienna, Jutta Ambrositsch Wien Wein, Las Cepas de Paco "El Reflejo" 2018, Lyonnais Gamay, Palomino table wine, Piemonte Freisa, Puerto de Santa Maria, Raul Moreno Winemaker, Unfortified Palomino Fino, Uva Non Grata Boutinot, Vienna Wine, Vinos Océanicos, Wiener Gemischter Satz, World's oldest Cinsault Vines
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London Wine Fair 2022 – Olympia as Dionysus Might Have Imagined It
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
Posted in Artisan Wines, English Wine, Sake, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Festivals, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged Agiorgitiko, Alliance Riceys, Canava Chrissou Santorini, Champagne Arnaud Tabourin, Champagne Péhu-Guiardel, Champagne Virginie T, Clos Cibonne Tibouren 2020, Dorper Stellenbosch Chenin, Gekkeikan Nigori Sake, Graft Wine, Japan Centre Sake at LWF, Katoukichibee Shouten Born Gold, Koerner Clare Valley, Koerner Watervale Pigato, Ktima Tselepos Greece, London Wine Fair 2022, Lyme Bay Pinot Noir 2020, Lyme Bay Winery Devon, Moschofilero Grape, Sake, Tselepos Mantinia, Tselepos Nemea, Tselepos Santorini Assyrtiko, Vineloper Adelaide Hills, Yuzu Sake
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Real Wine Fair 2022 (Part 3)
This is the final part of my coverage of the Real Wine Fair 2022. We shall step out of mainland Europe to cover producers from England, South Africa, Georgia and Lebanon. It brings to a close a fantastic event, but … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, biodynamic wine, English Wine, Georgian Wine, Lebanese Wine, Natural Wine, Petnat, South African Wines, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Festivals, Wine Tastings
Tagged A Fermament 2020, Bernhard Bredell, Charlie Herring Wines, Chinuri Grape, Daniel Ham Winemaker, Domaine Hugo Wiltshire, Eddie Chami Mersel Wines, English Heritage Vine Wine Project, English Sparkling Wine, English Wine, Frolic English Petnat 2021, Hampshire Wine, Hugo Stewart Botleys, Iago Bitarishvili, Iago's Wine Kartli Georgia, Lebanese Wine, Lost in a Field Petnat Rosé, Maksar Mercel Wine Region Lebanon, Marina Kurtanidze, Marina's Wine Kartli, Mersel Wines Lebanon, Mtsvane Grape, Perfect Strangers 2021, Perfect Strangers Artisan Cider 2021, Perfect Strangers English Artisan Cider, Promised Land Riesling 2020, Qvevri Wine Georgia, Scions of Sinai Lower Hederberg, South African Wine, Tavkveri Grape, Tim Phillips, Tim Wildman Lost in a Field, Wine in Wiltshire
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Real Wine Fair 2022 (Part 2)
In my introduction to Part One of my coverage of RealWine 2022 I mentioned that, wandering around the tables and bumping into friends, I was bombarded with producer recommendations, most of which I had no time to visit. One or … Continue reading
Posted in Alsace, Artisan Wines, Burgundy, Greek Wine, Italian Wine, Natural Wine, Petnat, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Festivals, Wine Tastings
Tagged Alsace Wine, Altesse de Montagnieu, Andrew and Emma Nielsen, Angiolino & Alessandro Maule, Beaujolais, Bugey, Burgundy, Côte de Brouilly du Grappin, Dimitrios and Eleftheria Kioutsoukis, Domaine L'Achillée Scherwiller, Du Grappin, Emma Bentley, Fleurie-Poncié, Garganega, Greek Wine, Groslée-St-Benoît Bugey, Kamara Estate Thessaloniki, La Biancara Veneto, Le Grappin, Les Caves de Pyrene, Macon-Villages Du Grappin, Maison Yves Duport Bugey, Modern Natural Artisan Retsina, Monatgnieu, Mondeuse in Bugey, Provisions London, Riesling Schieferberg 2019, St-Aubin En L'Ebaupin 2014, Veneto Natural Wine, VinNatur Group, Yves Duport Winemaker
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David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 