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Building a Wine Library (Part 1)
Owning a wine library, however small, is something I guess the majority of serious wine lovers have, or aspire to. By serious wine lovers, I don’t of course mean lovers of so-called serious wines. Building a wine library, in the … Continue reading
Posted in Amber Wine, Geology and Wine, Minerals and Wine, Natural Wine, orange wine, Regenerative Viticulture, Viticulture, Wine, Wine Books, Wine Science, Wine Writing
Tagged Alex Maltman Taste the Limestone Smell the Slate, Books on Natural Wine, Building a Wine Library (Part 1), Camilla Gjerde Natural Trailblazers, Hugh Johnson The Story of Wine, Jamie Goode and Wine Science, Jamie Goode Regenerative Viticulture, One Thousand Vines book, Pascaline Lepeltier One Thousand Vines, Simon J Woolf Amber Revolution, Wine Books, Wine Writing, World Atlas of Wine
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Clay Wine Fair 2026 (Part 3)
In Part 3 of my coverage of the Clay Wine Fair 2026 at Sotto Restaurant in Edinburgh on Sunday 1 March we have the wines presented by Astral Wines and Passione Vino. Astral Wines also showed a couple of wines … Continue reading
Posted in Amber Wine, Amphora Wine, Artisan Wines, Italian Wine, Lebanese Wine, Natural Wine, orange wine, Piemonte, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Festivals, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged Amphora Wines, Aphros Phaunus Loureiro Vino Verde, Astral Wines, Beckham Estate Creta Pinot Noir Oregon USA, Bekaa Valley Wine, Castlewood Vineyards Artefact 2023 Devon, Clay Wine Fair 2026 Pt 3, COS Vittoria Sicily, COS Zibibbo in Pithos 2023, Daw Al Amar Grape Variety, Elevate White 2022 Mersel Wines, Enrico Rivetto Langhe, Georgian Wine, I Mandorli Vermentino Toscana, I Mandorli Zino Zibibbo Pantelleria, Langhe Nascetta Rivetto Langhe, Lebanese Wine, Luke Harbor Artefact Collaboration, Mersel Wines Bekaa Valley Lebanon, Nebbiolo d'Alba Vigna Lirano 2023 Rivetto, Passione Vino, Podere Giodo La Quinta IGT Toscana, Podere Giodo Montalcino, Portuguese wine, Ronchi di Giancarlo Rocca Arneis In Amphoris, Teleda Wines Kakheti, Teleda Wines Orgo Rkatsiteli, Wine, Wine Tasting
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Clay Wine Fair 2026 (Part 2)
In Part 2 of my coverage of the Clay Wine Fair 2026 held at Sotto Restaurant in Edinburgh on 1 March we have wines presented by Fion Edinburgh and Wanderlust Wines. Fion is by now a well-known Edinburgh operation offering … Continue reading
Posted in Amber Wine, Amphora Wine, Artisan Wines, biodynamic wine, Natural Wine, orange wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Festivals, Wine Tastings
Tagged Alpamanta Chardonnay Lujan de cuyo Mendoza Argentina, Biodynamic Chardonnay Argentina, Bodegas de Frutos Marin Segovia Spain, Bodegas Vinificante Cadiz Spain, Bordeaux Amphora Wine, Clarete El Jaguar Juan Jose Martinez Palmero Valencia, Clay Wine Fair 2026 Part 2, Durfort-Vivens Le Hameau 2020, Durfort-Vivens Margaux Bordeaux, English Qvevri Wine, Fion Edinburgh, Koerner Leasingham Clare Valley, Koerner Watervale Riesling 2024, Palomino Dorada Mahara Bodegas Vinificante, Pico Lunar Bodegas Frutos Marin., Tillingham Qvevri Artego 2024, Tillingham Wines West Sussex, Tintilla de Rota Mahara Bodegas Vinificante, Wanderlust Wines, Wine, Wine Tasting
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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
Posted in Amber Wine, Artisan Wines, Champagne, Czech Wine, German Wine, Jura, Mosel, Natural Wine, orange wine, Spanish Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants
Tagged #Crémant du Jura, #theglouthatbindsus, Basket Press Wines, Best Aube Growers, Cave Les Papilles Paris, Champagne Jacques Lassaigne Le Cotet, Czech "Ginger" Wine (Rysak), Domaine Pignier Montaigu, Elbling, Emmanuel Lassaigne Montgueux, Entre Vinyes Baix Penedès, Feral Art & Vin Bordeaux, Jonas Dostert Elbling, Jonas Dostert Nittel Mosel, Macabeu Sotaterra Oniric Entre Vinyes, Moravian Natural Wine, Natural Wine, Newcomer Wines, Ota Sevcik Boretice, Ota Sevcik Chardonnay 2018, Raeburn Fine Wines, Recent Wines April 2025 (Pt 2), Richard Stavek Divy Rysak 2017, Smith & Gertruce Portobello
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David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 