Category Archives: Artisan Wines

Recent Wines July 2024 (Part 2) #theglouthatbindsus

July Part Two kicks off with two wines from Spain, one from the south and one from the north, totally different but both special wines. Then we head east to Austria’s Burgenland, from where it’s just a short drive to … Continue reading

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Recent Wines July 2024 (Part 1) #theglouthatbindsus

July marks the start of the second half of the year, and also, finally, the arrival of nice weather in our sunny corner of Scotland. It’s strange, though, how my drinking doesn’t substantially change between summer and winter. I drank … Continue reading

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Recent Wines June 2024 (Part 3) #theglouthatbindsus

The bumper June edition of my Recent Wines of 2024 runs to a third part this year. The final half-dozen wines here start with a Bugey (yawn, but you’ll thank me one day). Then we stay off-piste with Lagrein Rosé, … Continue reading

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Recent Wines June 2024 (Part 2) #theglouthatbindsus

Recent Wines, June Part 2, is a little different to Part 1. No spectacularly old and expensive wines I can no longer afford, but plenty of quality and interest, inspiration and pleasure, in this second half-dozen wines. We begin with … Continue reading

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Recent Wines June 2024 (Part 1) #theglouthatbindsus

In contrast to May, which if you have just read my “Recent Wines” for that month contained a mere six bottles, we drank quite a lot during June. It was a month of celebration, of moving into our new home … Continue reading

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Recent Wines May 2024 #theglouthatbindsus

After a couple of very recent tastings, I need to take you all the way back to May. We moved house in May and we were consumed by decorating, unpacking, and actually a week of enforced eating out because we … Continue reading

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Newcomer Wines at Montrose, Edinburgh (3 July ’24)

I have yet to dine at Timberyard’s new outpost in Edinburgh, Montrose, doubtless the cause being all our house moving escapades, but I did get to visit on Wednesday for a tasting with Peter Honegger from Newcomer Wines. I’ve known … Continue reading

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Recent Wines April 2024 (Part 2) #theglouthatbindsus

Part 2 for April is, somewhat similarly to Part 1, made up of a mix of the wines I usually drink and a bottle which doesn’t feature very often these days. We begin in Jerez, zip around Europe via Côte-Rôtie, … Continue reading

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Recent Wines April 2024 (Part 1) #theglouthatbindsus

The catchup continues. We are right back in April for my “Recent Wines”. Two parts, the first showing wines from Franken, Hampshire, Burgundy, Burgenland and Jura. Silvaner Thüngersheim Rothlauf GG 2019, Weingut Rudolf May (Franken, Germany) I seem to be … Continue reading

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Noble Rot and the Poulet

Four of us decamped to Noble Rot Soho for, if perhaps not a wild Real Wine after party, certainly a brilliant evening of food and wine. It was actually my first time at the Soho location, despite being almost a … Continue reading

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