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Gut Oggau Visit, August 2022
I might have mentioned previously that when we visited Moravia we flew into Vienna. The route worked best to minimise overall travel, and to avoid Stansted. It also afforded an opportunity to spend a couple of nights in Rust. This … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Austria, Austrian Wine, biodynamic wine, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Tourism, Wine Travel
Tagged Biodynamics at Gut Oggau, Burgenland, Gut Oggau, Gut Oggau Cecilia 2021, Gut Oggau Edmund 2019, Gut Oggau Maskerade, Neusiedlersee, Rösler Grape Variety, Roesler Grape Variety
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Moravia 2022 – Krásna Horá Winery
Krásna Horá means beautiful hill, or mountain, in Czech, and the winery which sits at the bottom of it in the village of Nový Poddvorov, and is named after it, nestles among extremely attractive, gently rolling, Moravian hills. However, in … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, biodynamic wine, Czech Wine, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Tastings, Wine Tourism, Wine Travel
Tagged Basket Press Wines, Biodynamic Wines of Moravia, Czech Wines, Krasna Hora Miya 2021, Krasna Hora Winery Moravia, Marek Vybiral, Moravia Visit August 2022, Moravian Sauvignon Blanc, Moravian Wine, Novy Poddvorov Moravia, Ondrej Dubas
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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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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 1)
RealWine, or the Real Wine Fair, took place at London’s Tobacco Dock venue on Sunday and Monday. This is one of the biggest natural wine fairs in the UK (along with Raw Wine), and possibly in Europe now. Organised for … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Austrian Wine, biodynamic wine, Czech Wine, German Wine, Natural Wine, Petnat, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Festivals, Wine Tastings
Tagged Andert-Wein Pamhagen, Austrian Wine, Basket Press Wines, Burgenland, Czech Petnat, Czech Wine, DB Schmitt Flörsheim Rheinhessen, Dva Duby Moravia, Erich & Michael Andert, German natural wine, Jaroslav Osicka, Jiri Sebela, Les Caves de Pyrene, Moravian Wine, natural wines, Petr Korab, Real Wine Fair 2022 (Pt 1), Weingut Bianka and Daniel Schmitt, Wine Tasting Events
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Recent Wines February 2022 (Part 1) #theglouthatbindsus
I am hoping that March will see me capable of easing myself into wine life with a few well-judged trips to London in March, and perhaps even elsewhere, but until that happens, I can only give you another round of … Continue reading
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Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, A Demua 2015, Alazani Valley Georgia, Cascina Degli Ulivi Piemonte, Christoph Schaefer, Coste della Sesia DOC, Craig and Anne Wessels, Domaine D'Audaux, Equipo Navazos Jerez, Georgian Wine, Graach Wine, Graacher Domprobst Kabinett 2018, Hemel-en-Aarde Wine, IGT Comté Tolosan, Jamie Hutchinson, Kakheti Wine Georgia, La Bota de Florpower 84 MMXVI, Lessona, Mosel Riesling, Nebbiolo Blend, Nika Winery Anna Red Wine 2019, Pago Miraflores La Baja Sanlúcar, Paolo and Luca De Marchi, Petit Manseng Sec, Piemonte Wine, Proprieta Sperino, Qvevri Wine, Recent Wines February 2022 Pt 1, Restless River Craig Wessels, Saperavi Blend, South African Piquette, South African Wine, Stefano Bellotti, Timorasso Blend, Uvaggio 2017, Wanderlust Piquette, Willi Schaefer
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Recent Wines September 2021 (Part 1) #theglouthatbindsus
September has been a strange month. After feeling we had pretty much no summer it turned out to be mostly warm and sunny. It doesn’t quite feel like time to raid the Nebbiolo and Syrah really. So, the reds have … Continue reading
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Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Alice and Olivier De Moor, Bianka & Daniel Schmitt Rheinhessen, Caravan Le Vendangeur Masqué, Dôle, Dôle La Liaudisaz Chappaz, De Moor Negociant Label, Frei Korper Kultur Weingut Schmitt, Fully Wine, Guillaume Edel Alsace Vigneron, Jois in Burgenland, Joiseph Fogosch, Ligurian Wine, Luka Zeichmann Joiseph, Marie-Thérèse Chappaz Fully, Patrice Beguet Mesnay, Philippe Brand Ergersheim Alsace, Philippe Brand Le Bleu Pinot Noir, Recent Wines September 2021, Rossese di Dolceacqua, Swiss Pinot Noir-Gamay Blend, Terre Bianche Rossese di Dolceacqua, Three Views of a Secret Patrice Beguet
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The One Straw Revolution (Masanobu Fukuoka)
Here in the UK a series of proposals has just been published under the ambitious heading of a “National Food Strategy”. Its author, Henry Dimbleby, has outlined a raft of measures we need to adopt in order to save lives … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, biodynamic wine, Japan, Natural Wine, Philosophy and Wine, Viticulture, Wine, Wine and Health, Wine Science
Tagged Do-nothing Farming, Farming Without Chemical Inputs, Masanobu Fukuoka, No-till farming, Philosophy and Agriculture, Regenerative Agriculture, Soil Health, The One Straw Revolution
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Recent Wines July 2021 (Part 1) #theglouthatbindsus
In the first half of July, I crawled into a corner of European wine which spilt out a little from Trink Magazine’s “umlaut wines” domain, but only just. I think the eight wines I’ve written about here are perfect for … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Austrian Wine, biodynamic wine, German Wine, Hungarian Wine, Natural Wine, Swiss Wine, Wine
Tagged Annamária Réka-Koncz Hungary, Baden Wine, Bechtel Weine Eglisau, Burgenland, Cave de la Côte Chasselas, Cave de la Côte Tolochenaz, Claus Preisinger Gols, Deutschschweiz Wine, Eglisau Wines, Enderle & Moll Spätburgunder Rosé, Florian Moll, Georg Renner, German Pinot Noir, German Rosé, Hannes Hoffmann, Mathias Bechtel, Mosel Riesling, Olympia Samara, Puszta Libre 2020, Räuschling, Réka Koncz Eastern Accents, Renner und Rennersistas Gols, Rita & Rudolf Trossen Kinheim, Rodrigo Banto Winemaker, Schwäbischer Landwein, Stefanie Renner, Susanne Renner, Sven Enderle, Swiss Wine, Trossen Schieferblume 2018, Vaud Wine, Waiting for Tom Rosé, Weingut Roterfaden Pinot Noir, Wine of Eastern Hungary, Wines of Vaihingen-Roßwag, Wines of Württemburg, Zurich Wines
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David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 