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Category Archives: Italian Wine
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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Recent Wines March 2025 (Part 1) #theglouthatbindsus
March has been a quieter month, so just ten wines, five in each part. It’s not so much the alcohol as the cost of wine now, as my last article explained. That said, with various wine-loving guests coming to stay, … Continue reading
Posted in Alsace, Aosta, Artisan Wines, Australian Wine, Burgundy, Italian Wine, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants
Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Alice & Olivier de Moor Courgis Chablis, Alpine Wine, Aosta, Australian Natural Wine, Chardonnay Sauvignon Blanc Aligoté Burgundy Blend, Czech Riesling, Czech Wine, De Moor Nuova Descriptio 2022, Maison Vevey Albert Aosta Valley, McLaren Vale Grenache, Meyer Zellberg L'Hermitage Sylvaner 2020, Mira Nestarcová Moravia, Moravian Wine, Natural Wine, Nothalten Wine, Patrick Meyer Alsace, Prié Blanc, Recent Wines March 2025 (Pt 1), Taras Ochota, The Green Room Grenache, Valle d'Aoste, Vin Blanc de Morgex et de La Salle
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More Newcomer at Montrose
Montrose bar and restaurant on Montrose Terrace in Edinburgh not only gives its famed sibling Timberyard a run for its money in cool ambience and top-quality wine, it is also becoming a place where I seem to taste any wines … Continue reading
Posted in Alsace, Artisan Wines, Austrian Wine, biodynamic wine, Burgundy, Czech Wine, Italian Wine, Languedoc-Roussillon, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged Alsace Wine, Crémant d'Alsace, Czech Wine, Domaine Matassa Roussillon, Foradori Trentino-Alto-Adige, Lucas Rieffel Mittelbergheim, Manzoni Fontanasanta 2023 Foradori, Matassa Tommy Ferriol 2023, Milan Nestarec, Moravian Wine, Nestarec Forks & Knives Red 2020, New Vintages from Newcomer, Newcomer Wines at Montrose, Peter Honegger Newcomer Wines, Raphaëlle Guyot L'Aurore 2023, Raphaëlle Guyot St Bris, Roussillon Wine, St Bris Chardonnay, Tom Lubbe
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Recent Wines January 2025 (Part 2) #theglouthatbindsus
Part One, perhaps unusually, was quite heavily weighted towards France, only one wine coming from elsewhere (in that case, Australia). I go some way to redressing that, and trying to get my credentials for drinking widely re-established here in Part … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Beaujolais, German Wine, Italian Wine, Jura, Natural Wine, Sicily, South African Wines, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants
Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Baden Wine, Beaujolais-Villages, Cabernet Franc Elgin South Africa, Cantina Orsogna Abruzzo, Cantina Orsogna Sicilian Project, Colombian Coffee Wine, Frank 2022 Nomad Wines Elgin, Julien Sunier Avenas, Julien Sunier Wild Soul 2021, Kosie Van Der Merwe, L'Etoile Jura, Lantignié, Les Chais du Vieux Bourg Poligny Jura, Ludwig Bindernagel Vigneron, Lulu Vigneron Jura Wine, Lulu Vigneron L'Etoile Jura, Luna Gaia Nerello Mascalese, Max Baumann Dertingen, Max Sein Wein Rouge 2021, Roman Lawson & Ariane Stern winemakers Jura, Sol y Luna Colombia, South African Wine, Value Etna Nerello Mascalese, Vino Artisanal de Café de Colombia
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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
Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Austrian Wine, Cheapest Wine Drunk in 2024, Christoph Heiss Rotburger, Crémant du Jura Indigène, Domaine A&M Tissot, Eva Fricke Rheingau, German Dry Riesling, Hermit Ram North Canterbury, Jura Sparkling Wine, Kamptal Wine, Little Bit 2023 Westwell Wines, Lorchhäuser Seligmacher Riesling 2011, Malinga Rotburger 2021, Marks & Spencer Found Wines, New Zealand Wine, North Canterbury NZ Wine, Recent Wines December 2024 (Pt1), Refosco, Rheingau Wine, Rotburger or Zweigelt, Stéphane Tissot Montigny-les-Arsures, The Hermit Ram Salty White 2022, Theo Coles The Hermit Ram, Trevenezie IGT, Westwell Wines Kent
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David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 