Category Archives: Jura

Recent Wines November 2025 (Part 1) #theglouthatbindsus

In the month of November, we appear to have drunk quite a lot, but I blame the guests. It means we have three parts of Recent Wines for last month, even with a few less exciting bottles culled. We begin … Continue reading

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Recent Wines September 2025 (Part 2)

Part Two of the wines we drank at home during a September in which we spent half the month away nevertheless contains some very interesting wines. We begin in Alto Adige and move on to Mallorca. Mid-month we drank a … Continue reading

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Recent Wines August 2025 (Part 3) #theglouthatbindsus

We come to the end of the wines we drank during August with a final six bottles forming Part 3 of my Recent Wines. Not strictly six wines, because one is an ice cider, but it is one of the … Continue reading

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Recent Wines August 2025 (Part 2) #theglouthatbindsus

Part Two of my August Wines begins spectacularly with a twenty-five-year-old bottle from what is one of my half-dozen favourite sites in Champagne, one which can produce extraordinary gastronomic wines. That was followed by a wine of the same age … Continue reading

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Recent Wines June 2025 (Part 1) #theglouthatbindsus

June is always my favourite month on account of it containing the longest day and the Summer Solstice. It has a habit of throwing up some wine surprises too. Not the big names, but rather wines which would surprise most … Continue reading

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Recent Wines April 2025 (Part 2) #theglouthatbindsus

To run through what’s in store in Part Two (of three) of my wines drunk at home in April, we begin in Germany and continue with Jura, Penedès and Champagne. We finish up with two wines from Czechia (or Czech … Continue reading

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Recent Wines February 2025 (Part 2) #theglouthatbindsus

Part Two of my wines drunk at home in February doesn’t manage the zero-zero of all different countries, as Part One did, but we still manage to range far and wide in the world of wine. We kick off in … Continue reading

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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

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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

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Wines of the Year 2024 #theglouthatbindsus

In the “Recent Wines” articles I publish each month I always stress that the wines I include are not the most expensive, smartest and poshest wines but the wines I find most interesting, and hopefully thrilling. This means you might … Continue reading

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