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Category Archives: Artisan Wines
A Few Germans at The Solent Cellar (July 2025)
I was otherwise engaged a week last Friday when Solent Cellar in Lymington had a German tasting in the shop. We had been invited to go out sailing on The Solent, over to the Isle of Wight. We came back on … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, German Wine, Mosel, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Shops, Wine Tastings
Tagged AJ Adam Dhron Mosel, AJ Adam Im Pfarrgarten Feinherb 2023, Andreas Adam Winzer, Franken Silvaner, German Chardonnay, Horst Sauer Eschendorfer Lump Silvaner Trocken, Horst Sauer Franken, Mosel Pinot Noir Spätburgunder, Pinot Noir off Mosel Slate, Pinot Noir Vom Schieffer 2023 Daniel Fries, Rheinhessen Chardonnay, Rheinhessen Sekt Lena Singer-Fischer, Seehof Steingrube Chardonnay R 2023, Singer-Fischer Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut 2021, Solent Cellar Lymingtom Hampshire, Tasting German Wines at The Solent Cellar, Weingut Daniel Fries Winningen Mosel
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Holiday Wines July 2025
In a brief diversion from the “Recent Wines” theme (the wines we drink at home), these are ten of the wines we drank on a week’s holiday on the South Coast. Actually, these were merely consumed by four of us … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Champagne, German Wine, Italian Wine, Languedoc-Roussillon, Rioja, Spanish Wine, Tuscan Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Shops
Tagged "Electio" Xarel-Lo 2021 Parés Balta Penedès, Bodega Pazo de Casanova Ourense Ribeiro, Clos du Goulot Champagne, Coteaux Champenois, Coteaux Champenois "Gamet" Rosé 2022, Domaine Gardies Agly Valley Roussillon, Finca Viñoa Sobre Lias 2023, Florian Fauth Weingut Seehof, Holiday Wines July 2025, Jerome Prevost Gueux Champagne, Julian Haart Piesport, La Closerie Les Beguines 2016, Lopez de Heredia Rioja, Max & Friends Romery Champagne, Montedesassi 2019 Il Borghetto Tuscany, On s'en Fish! 2023 Dom Gardies, Ou Que L'on Soit Coteaux Champanois, Parés Baltá Penedès, Seehof Rheinhessen, Seehof Weisser Burgunder "R" Morstein, Tondonia Reserva 2001, Wintricher Ohligsberg Auslese 2017 Haart
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Recent Wines June 2025 (Part 2) #theglouthatbindsus
We begin Part 2 of June’s Recent Wines, those we drank at home, with a very rare and special Californian white. Wine number two isn’t quite as rare but it is also a remarkable and special wine. How to follow … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Californian Wine, Italian Wine, Natural Wine, Portuguese wine, Savoie Wine, Swiss Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wines of Southwest France,
Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Alto Adige Pinot Bianco, Bridgehead Vineyard Contra Costa County, Californian Palomino, Dirk Niepoort Batuta, Domaine Montmollin Auvernier Neuchâtel, Domaine Montmollin Oeil de Perdrix, Dominique Lucas Ballaison Savoie, Dordogne Wine Ferme L'Apogee, Douro Table Wine, Ferme L'Apogee Nasturtium Sauvignon Gris 2023, Ferme L'Apogee Sainte-Croix Dordogne, J Hofstätter Sudtirol/Alto Adige, J Hofstätter Weissburgunder 2024, Kheops Chardonnay Savoie, Les Vignes de Paradis Kheops Chardonnay, Neuchâtel Wine, Niepoort Batuta 2004, Niepoort Douro Table Wine, Oeil de Perdrix Neuchâtel, Recent Wines June 2025 (Pt 2), Sauvignon Gris, Savoie Natural Wine, Swiss Oeil de Perdrix Rosé, The Alley 2019 Christina Rasmussen, Weingut J Hofstätter Termino, Wine from Crépy Lac Léman, Wine in a Pyramid
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Cork & Cask Summer Wine Fair 2025 (Part 2) – Uncharted, Alliance, Naughton Cider and some beer
The second part of my coverage of the Cork & Cask Summer Fair begins with a selection from Uncharted Wines. This has a focus mostly on Westwell Wines from Kent (not exclusively) because, well, they are so good! Second up, … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Cider, Artisan Wines, Beer, Champagne, Cider, English Wine, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Festivals, Wine Merchants, Wine Shops, Wine Tastings
Tagged Adrian Pike Westwell Wines, Alliance Wine, August Kesseler Daily August 2024 Rheingau, Baglio Gibellina Frappato 2023, Baglio Gibellina Sicily, Cami del Drac Lledoner Pelut VV 2024, Campervan Brewery Leith, Campervan Puffin Isles Gose, Champagne Delouvin Meunier Perpetuel, Champagne Method Cider, Champagne Paul Clouet Selection, Cork & Cask Summer Fair 2025 (Pt 2), Domaine Chatzivariti Paiko PGI Greece, Edinburgh Craft Beer, Espera Alcobaça Portugal, Espera Curtimenta 2023, Fife Cider, Futtle Brewery Bowhouse Fife, Futtle Organic Wheat Beer with Bay, Galia Durant Illustrations, German Wine, Greek Wine, Lledoner Pelut, Mosaic White Domaine Chatzivariti, Naughton Brut Vintage 2021, Naughton Cider Company, Naughton Le Clos 2020, Naughton Overture, Peter Crawford Naughton Cider, Pilot Brewery Leith, Pilot Rosé Sour, Portuguese wine, Rheingau Wine, Scottish Cider, Sicilian Wine, Terres Fideles Alliance Wine, Uncharted Wines, Vault City Blood Orange Radler, Vault City Brewery Portobello, Westwell Little Bit, Westwell Pelegrim NV, Westwell Pinot Noir 2023, Westwell Unnaturally Petulant Pink 2023, Westwell Village Chardonnay 2023, Westwell Wines Kent
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Wines of the Loire Valley by Beverley Blanning MW (Book Review)
As someone who has been a bit of a wine obsessive for a number of decades, I find that things, in this case a more than average interest in any particular wine region, come around in cycles. The world of … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Loire, Wine, Wine Books, Wine Travel, Wine Writing
Tagged Académie du Vin Library, Beverley Blanning MW, Blanning Wines of the Loire Valley 2024, Grapes of the Loire, Loire Valley Wines, Loire Wine Book, Loire Wines, Top Loire Wine Producers, Wine Books, Wine writing, Wines of the Loire Valley (Book Review)
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Recent Wines May 2025 (Part 2) #theglouthatbindsus
A little later than usual, Part Two of the wines drunk at home during May had to make way for a couple of more pressing articles. You may remember that in Part One we were rather spoilt with a mix … Continue reading
Posted in Alsace, Amphora Wine, Artisan Wines, Austrian Wine, Burgundy, English Wine, German Wine, Natural Wine, Slovakian Wine, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants
Tagged A Bulles Perdues Domaine Didon, Alsace Field Blend off Frankstein Grand Cru Site, Amphora Bacchus, Artefact 2022 Castlewood Vineyards, Castlewood and Luke Harbor Wine Collaboration, Castlewood Vineyards Devon, Charles Frey Frankenstein 2022, Christine Pieroth Winemaker, English Amphora Wine, German natural wine, Julien and Thiébaud Frey Dambach-la-Ville, Magula Baccara 2019, Magula Little Carpathians, Naima and David Didon Burgundy, New Ecology in the Nahe - Piri Naturel, Piri Natural Petnat, Piri Naturel Nahe, Renner Family Gols, Rennersistas Gols Burgenland, Slovakian Natural Wine, Waiting for Tom Rosé
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Heroic Viticulture and Thrilling Wines – Matt Gregory in Leicestershire
We occasionally use the phrase “heroic viticulture”, but in doing so we are most often conjuring up someone whose vines sit high up a mountain in the Swiss Valais, Aosta or Chile. Fifty years ago we might also have said … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, English Wine, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Heroes
Tagged English Natural Wine, English Wine, Extreme Viticulture in England, Hedge Line 2023, Heroic Viticulture, Leicestershire Wine, Matt Gregory Winemaker, Theo Coles The Hermit Ram, Walton Brook Vineyard, Wine in the Leicestershire Wolds
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David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 