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Recent Wines December 2024 (Part 1) #theglouthatbindsus
Does anyone actually remember December 2024? With the new year now upon us, 1st December, when I drank the first wine here, seems a very long time ago. That wine was a supermarket Refosco from the Veneto. Here in Part … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Austrian Wine, English Wine, German Wine, Italian Wine, Jura, Natural Wine, New Zealand Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies
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Recent Wines September 2024 (Part 1) #theglouthatbindsus
We have a baker’s dozen of wines for September, and I shall split that two ways, seven wines here in Part One, the six remaining to follow in Part Two. Below, we begin the usual eclectic mix with a classic … Continue reading
Posted in Alsace, Artisan Cider, Artisan Wines, Austrian Wine, Cider, Natural Wine, Petnat, Slovakian Wine, Wiener Gemischter Satz, Wieninger, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wines of Southwest France,
Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Aeble Cider Anstruther, Bergerac Moelleux, Bergerac Wine, Côtes de Toul, Domaine de la Légèreté Lorraine, Domaine des Verdots, Domaine Durrmann Alsace, Domaine Durrmann Andlau, Du Vin aux Liens, Durrmann Gaz de Schistes Petnat, Farid Yahimi, Fife Cider, Hendre Huffcap Pear Variety, Herefordshire Perry, Little Pomona Cider Company, Lorraine Wine, Magula Oranzovy Vlk 2021, Maison Wessman, Naoufel Zaim, Natural Wine, Naughton Cider Company, Nussberg, Perry, Peter Crawford Naughton Cider, Pulsations Pinot Noir des Joncyns, Recent Wines September 2024 (Pt 1), Scottish Cider, Source des Verdots Moelleux, Vanessa Letort, Viennese Field Blend, Viennese Wine, Vino Magula Sucha nad Parnou, Wieninger Vienna, Wine of Little Carpathians/Trnava
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My Favourite Wine Regions in Tourist Mode (Part 2)
In the first part of this article, I introduced six of my favourite wine regions with my tourist hat on. Six wine regions I love to visit for reasons other than, or perhaps rather in addition to, the wine. Those … Continue reading
Posted in Austria, Austrian Wine, Italian Wine, Japan, Neusiedlersee, Piemonte, Rust, Swiss Wine, UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Wine, Wine Tourism, Wine Travel
Tagged Acqui Terme to the Ligurian Coast, Aosta, Burgenland Travel, Domaine Sogga Obuse, Excursions from Rodez, Favourite Wine Regions, Japanese Wine, Lavaux, Lavaux Vinorama, Lavaux Wine Tasting and Walking, Nagano Wine Region Japan, Neusiedlersee, Nizza and Acqui Terme, Piemonte Monferrato Hills, Val d'Aosta, Vallée d'Aoste, Wine and Tourism in Aveyron, Wine Region Tourism
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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
Posted in Artisan Wines, Austrian Wine, Czech Wine, German Wine, Natural Wine, North American Wine, Petnat, Spanish Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies
Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Austrian Natural Wine, Bierzo Mencia Veronica Ortega, Czech Wine, Dark Horse Brut 2022 Petr Koráb, Freedom Hill Vineyard, German natural wine, German Wine, Joiseph Jois Burgenland, Joiseph Piroska 2021, Kelley Fox Freedom Hill Pinot Blanc 2022, Kelley Fox Wines Oregon USA, Kerner blend in Baden, Luka Zeichmann Joiseph, Max Baumann Winzer, Max Sein Wein Baden, Max Sein Wein Pur Jus 2021, Moravian Wine, Muchada-Léclapart Lumière Sanlúcar, North American Pinot Blanc, Oregon Wine, Palomino table wine, Petr Koráb Boleradice, Recent Wines July 2024 Pt2, Sanlúcar table wine, Veronica Ortega Bierzo Quite, Veronica Ortega Valtuille, Willamette Valley, Wines of Northern Spain
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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
Posted in Alsace, Artisan Wines, Austria, Austrian Wine, Beaujolais, biodynamic wine, Burgundy, Hungarian Wine, Languedoc-Roussillon, Loire, Natural Wine, Wachau, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged Agly Valley, Andrew and Emma Nielsen, Austrian Wine, Domaine Rieffel Pinot Noir Nature, Du Grappin Côte de Brouilly, Edinburgh Wine Tasting, Foradori, Franz Weninger Soprón, Hungarian Wine, Kékfrankos from Sopron Hungary, Le Grappin Hautes Côtes de Beaune, Loire Wine, Lucas Rieffel Mittelbergheim, Manzoni Grape Variety, Matassa Cuvée Marguerite, Muscadet de Sèvre et Maine, Natural Wine, Newcomer Wines at Montrose, Nikolaihof Grüner Veltliner, Nikolaihof Wachau, Northeast Italian Wine, Orthogneiss Domaine L'Ecu, Roussillon Wine, Trentino Alto-Adige Wine, Weninger Steiner 2017
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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
Posted in Arbois, Artisan Wines, Austrian Wine, Burgundy, English Wine, German Wine, Jura, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies
Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Arbois Vin Jaune 2006 Dom de la Pinte, Charlie Herring Wines Hampshire, Denis Bachelet, Domaine Bachelet Gevrey Chambertin VV 2006, Domaine de la Pinte Arbois, English Sparkling Riesling, Franken Silvaner, Gevrey VV Bachelet, Gut Oggau Burgenland, Gut Oggau Field Blend, Hampshire Sparkling Wine, Maskerade Cuvées Gut Oggau, Maskerade Rosé 2021, Recent Wines April 2024 (Pt 1), Stephanie and Eduard Tscheppe-Eselbock, Thungersheim Rothlauf GG, Tim Phillips winemaker, Vin Jaune, Weingut Rudolf May Franken
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Real Wine Fair 2024 (Part 1)
Some readers might have wondered why I’ve been silent since my last article on 24 April. After a decorating blitz on our new home we finally moved in (after exactly a year of building work). Then our son came to … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Austrian Wine, Natural Wine, North American Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Festivals, Wine Tastings
Tagged Austrian Wine, Burgenland Wine, Carter Vineyard Pinot Noir, Ci Confonde Vermont Petnat, Durant Vineyard Chardonnay, Fleurine Wine and Cider Blend, Found Love La Garagista, Gora Bijela 2018, Gora Plava 2018/19, Kelley Fox Oregon, Koppitsch Abendrot, Koppitsch Aeon Weiss, Koppitsch Happy Anniversary Red Wine, Koppitsch Petnat, La Garagista Vermont, Les Caves de Pyrene, Luka Zeichmann Burgenland, Mirabai Pinot Noir, Native Love La Garagista, Nerthus 2021, Oregon Wine, Real Wine Fair 2024, Ujca Hendrik Red Wine, Vermont Wine, Weingut Koppitsch Burgenland, Whe Life Gives You Lemons
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Recent Wines January 2024 (Part 1) #theglouthatbindsus
We have a dozen wines from January, divided into two equal parts. Here in Part 1 there are wines from Austria’s Burgenland, NE Italy, Alsace, Eastern Switzerland, a new wine and a new producer to all of us from Czech … Continue reading
Posted in Alsace, Artisan Wines, Austrian Wine, Czech Wine, German Wine, Italian Wine, Mosel, Natural Wine, Neusiedlersee, Swiss Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies
Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Alsace Natural Wine, Alsace Wine, Austrian Wine, Bechtel Blauburgunder 2018, Bechtel Weine Blauburgunder 2018, Czech Natural Wine, Domaine Durrmann Andlau, Friuli Colli Orientali DOC, Gernot and Heike Heinrich Gols, Gols Burgenland Natural Wine, Heinrich Graue Freyheit 2020, Matthias Bechtel Eglisau Zürich, Mira Nestarecová Cabernet Franc 2022, Moravian Wine, Natural Wine, Natural Wine Dry Gewurztraminer, Neusiedlersee, Recent Wines January 2024 (Pt 1), Refosco, Rita and Rudolf Trossen Mosel, Schieferstern Purus 2016, Specogna Refosco 2019 Friuli, Swiss Wine, Trossen Schieferstern Purus 2016, Velké Bilovice Wine Village, Wine from NE Italy, Yann Durrmann Andlau, Zegwur Cuvée Nature 2022 Durrmann
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David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 