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Category Archives: Spanish Wine
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
Posted in Arbois, Artisan Wines, Bordeaux Wine, Champagne, Fine Wine, Jura, Loire, New Zealand Wine, Rosé Wine, Sherry, Spanish Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants
Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, A Classic Bordeaux, André-Jean Morin Arbois, Antoine Pouponneau Winemaker and Consultant, Beverley Blanning Wines of the Loire, Champagne Philipponnat, Château Duhart-Milon Rothschild 2000, Clos des Goisses 2000, Domaine de la Touraize Arbois, Duhart-Milon Pauillac, Equipo Navazos, Equipo Navazos Bota 100, Grange Saint-Saveur Loire, Grolleau Gris, Grolleau Noir, Les Arceaux 2021 Grange Saint-Saveur, Manzanilla Pasada, Manzanilla Pasada Botas NO 100, New Zealand Botrytis Riesling, One of the Finest Loire Rosé Wines, Philipponnat Clos des Goisses 2000, Recent Wines August 2025 Pt2, Riverby Estate Marlborough, Riverby Noble Riesling 2013, Riverby Wines New Zealand, Touraize Vin Jaune 2010, Under the radar Loire, Vin Jaune
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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 May 2025 (Part 1) #theglouthatbindsus
May’s selection of wines drunk at home include a number which even I drink rarely, although it’s not only the more obscure among them to which that applies. We kick off Part One with a white Rioja. I’m behind the … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Austrian Wine, Loire, Natural Wine, Nepal, Neusiedlersee, Rioja, Savoie Wine, Spanish Wine, Swiss Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants
Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Alex & Maria Koppitsch Neusiedl am See, Antoine Sanzay Varrains Saumur, Bodega Amaren, Burgenland Wine, Chautagne Wine, Christian Guyot Bernex Geneva, Corentin Houillon Veronnet 2020, Geneva Wines, Koppitsch Abendrot 2022 Burgenland, Koshu (Nepal), Loire Chenin Blanc, Loire Wine, Luis Cañas family of wines, Nepalese Wine, Pataleban Rose Koshu 2024, Pataleban Vineyard Resort, Pataleban Vineyard Winery Nepal, Prince des Vignes 2019 Christian Guyot, Recent Wines May 2025 (Pt 1), Rioja Alavesa, Rioja Blanco, Saumur Blanc Les Salles Martin 2018, Savoie Natural Wine, Swiss Wine
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Recent Wines April 2025 (Part 3) #theglouthatbindsus
The opening wine from this third and final part of the bumper April edition of Recent Wines (what we drink at home) is a well-aged Burgundy Grand Cru. You might think it’s downhill all the way after that but not … Continue reading
Posted in Arbois, Artisan Wines, Austrian Wine, Burgundy, Czech Wine, Natural Wine, Spanish Wine, Swiss Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies
Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Arbois Savagnin in Amphora, Burgenland Natural Wine, Celler Pardas Alt Penedès, Claus Preisinger Gols, Clos de Vougeot 1999 Lamarche, Czech Natural Wine Can Age, Devinière Pinot Gris 2020 Geneva, Domaine A&M Tissot Montigny-les-Arsures, Domaine de la Devinière Satigny Geneva, Dva Duby Dolni Kounice Moravia, Dva Duby Frankovka 2015, Geneva Wine, Jura Orange Wine, Jura Wine, Moravian Wine, Pardas Sumoll, Pardas Sus Scrofa 2022, Preisinger Kalkundkiesel Weiss 2022, Recent Wines April 2025 (Pt 3), Stéphane & Bénédicte Tissot, Stéphane Tissot Savagnin Amphore 2016, Willy & Camille Cretigny Winemakers at Satigny
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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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Rioja by Fintan Kerr – The Smart Traveller’s Wine Guide (Book Review)
Wine books can be pretty expensive these days, at least the serious wine books you and I read. It’s not always the case. Jamie Goode has found a way to make some of his books affordable, but those published by … Continue reading
Posted in Fine Wine, Restaurants, Rioja, Spanish Wine, Wine, Wine Books, Wine Shops, Wine Tourism, Wine Travel, Wine Writing
Tagged Académie du Vin Library, Bodega Visits in Rioja, Club Oenologique, Dining in Rioja, Fintan Kerr Author, food, Rioja Guide, Rioja Wine Routes, Rioja Wine Shops, spain, The Smart Traveller's Wine Guide Series, The Smart Traveller's Wine Guide to Rioja, travel, Visiting Rioja, Wine, Wine Tasting
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Recent Wines December 2024 (Part 2) #theglouthatbindsus
Part Two of 2024’s last batch of the most interesting wines drunk at home begins with three wines which all, at the time of buying them, cost £26. Remember in Part One I suggested that £26 is the new £18? … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Czech Wine, English Wine, Hungarian Wine, Natural Wine, Portuguese wine, Spanish Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies
Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Annamária Réka-Koncz Hungary, António Maçanita, António Maçanita Porto Santo Wine, Cabernet Moravia Grape Variety, Charlie Herring Sparkling Riesling, Chenin Blanc Sec Monbtlouis, Chenin Sec Borderies Terres Turones, Czech Wine, Dominique Weiss and Philippe Ivancic Montlouis, DOP Madeirense, English Sparkling Riesling, Hungarian Wine, Királyleányka Grape Variety, Montlouis-sur-Loire, Moravian Wine, Nuno Faria wine collaboration, Olivier Rivière Rioja "Rayos Uva" 2021, Porto Santo Wine (Madeira), Promised Land Riesling Brut Nature 2014, Réka Koncz Freiluftkino Brut 2019, Recent Wines December 2024 (Pt2), Rioja Rayos Uva 2021, Tim Phillips Charlie Herring Wines, Tinta Negra Dos Villoes 2022, Vykoukal Cabernet Moravia 2021, Zdenek Vykoukal Moravia
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David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 