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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,
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Ally Wines Tasting (Edinburgh) – “Curiously Cool American Wines”
I was very pleased to attend a tasting/masterclass introducing Ally Wines to the Edinburgh market on Monday. Ally Wines (pron. Al-eye, not Al-ee) is a London-based importer of small production artisan wines from the West Coast of America. Under the … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Californian Wine, North American Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Masterclass, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged Ally Wines Tasting Edinburgh, American Wines Tasting Oct '24, Antiquum Farm Pinot Gris, Bassi Vineyard San Luis Obispo, Bel Canto Cara Mia Red Cadence Vineyards, Cadence Vineyards Washington State, Californian Trousseau, Californian Wines, Central Coast Wine CA, Daisy Pinot Gris Stephen Hagen, De Sante Old Vines Napa Valley, Dunites Moy Mel 2020, Ernest Vineyards Mendocino County), Fine Disregard Oak Knoll Semillon, Fine Disregard Wine Co Milhouse Semillon, Jennifer Williams-Bulkeley Ally Wines, Kiona and Björnson Vineyard Collaboration, Kiona Cuvée Artemesia, Kiona Red Mountain Lemberger, Kiona Vineyards Red Mountain Washington State, Napa Alternative Varieties, Oregon Wine, Ossum Epiphenea Light Table Wine, Outward Pinot Gris Petnat, Red Mountain AVA Washington State, Sandar & Hem Santa Cruz Mountain Pinot Noir, Shypoke Olivia's Sangiovese Calistoga Napa Valley, Siletto Family Adroit Trousseau San Benito County, Washington State Lemberger, Washington State Wine, ~Disciples Red Wine by The Crane Assembly Napa
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Butlers Wine Cellar – The Evolving Nature of Wine Retail in Brighton
A lot of you read my “interview” with Feral Art & Vin in Bordeaux last month. I think I mentioned that it was the first in a short series on wine shops which rock my wine world, and for the … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Californian Wine, English Wine, Portuguese wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Heroes, Wine Merchants, Wine Shops, Wine Tastings
Tagged Blank Bottle Winery, Brighton Crew Club Supporters, Brighton Wine Shop, Butlers Wine Cellar Brighton, English Sparkling Wine Specialist, Portuguese Wine Specialist, Source for Breaky Bottom
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New Wine Leaders 1 – Christina Rasmussen
I was flicking through one of those trade magazines, one which always helps to form a disorderly pile beside my bed after a big event like the London Wine Fair. Anyway, this copy had one of those rankings of young … Continue reading
Posted in Californian Wine, Natural Wine, Viticulture, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Heroes, Wine Writing, Women in Wine
Tagged Abe Schoener Scholium Project, Christina Rasmussen, Daniella Pillhofer, Littlewine, Los Angeles River Wine Co, Oxfordshire Vineyard, Rajat Parr, Westbury Comms Wine PA, Wine Leaders in Taste, Young People in Wine
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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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Lockdown Guilt or Isolation Inspiration
Are you enjoying Lockdown? I am guilty of moments where I feel more relaxed and, dare I say it, quite happy to be stuck at home. It’s stressful worrying about loved ones, but then there just isn’t the stress of … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Californian Wine, Czech Wine, Dining, Hungarian Wine, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants
Tagged Basket Press Wines, Isolation Inspiration, Isolation Wines, Lockdown Wine Deliveries, Lockdown Wines, Modal Wines, Nekter Wines, Newcomer Wines, The Solent Cellar, Uncharted Wines, Wild Flor Hove
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Matthiasson, Linda Vista Chardonnay and Nekter Wines on Zoom
As the UK’s Coronavirus lockdown came into place you could hear the buzz of wine importers working out not only how to keep their stock moving and supporting their growers (by being in a position to sell more of their … Continue reading
David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 