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Category Archives: Tuscan Wine
Recent Wine August 2025 (Part 1) #theglouthatbindsus
After a quiet month in July, well aside from a trip to the home country, August was ram-packed with visitors. Even without writing about everything we drank, I’m still left with eighteen bottles to share with you. Some of them … Continue reading
Posted in Amphora Wine, Artisan Wines, Australian Wine, Bordeaux Wine, Czech Wine, German Wine, Italian Wine, Natural Wine, Tuscan Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants
Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Château Beaumont Haut-Médoc, Czech Natural Wine, Fattoria di Sammontana Tuscany, Good Commercial Aussie Chardonnay, Good Value Classic Bordeaux, Jülg Weissburgunder vom Kalk, Krasna Hora Anna Petnat 2023, Larry Cherubino Pedestal Chardonnay 2023, Margaret River Chardonnay, Moravian Natural Wine, Moravian Wine, Petr Koráb Boleradice, Pfalz Wine, Recent Wines August 2025 Pt1, Sammontana Primo Fuoco Bianco 2023, Schweigen Wein, Solar Red 2024 Petr Koráb, The Wine Society Generation Series, Tuscan Amphora White Wine, Weingut Jülg Schweigen Pfalz, Wine Society 150th Anniversary Haut-Médoc 2019
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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 August 2024 (Part 3) #theglouthatbindsus
The third and final part of August’s wines brings to the table five possibly less august bottles than we drank in Part 2, but then it’s all relative, isn’t it. In order to bring you these articles I have to … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Cider, Artisan Wines, Bordeaux Wine, Cider, Czech Wine, English Cider, Italian Wine, Loire, Natural Wine, Tuscan Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies
Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Ancestral Method Chenin Blanc, Blaye Côtes de Bordeaux Blanc, Charlie Herring Wines Hampshire, Chianti Classico 2019 Querciabella, Czech Wine, Domaine La Taille aux Loups Husseau, Jacky Blot Triple Zéro NV, Jaroslav Springer Pinot Noir 2020, Jean-Philippe Blot, Loire Sparkling, Matthieu Cosse and Jérôme Ossard, Matthieu Cosse Blaye Blanc 2020, Moravian Wine, Perfect Strangers Vintage Cider 2018, Querciabella Greve in Chianti, Recent Wines August 2024 (Pt 3), Sauvignon Blanc Muscadelle Blend, Sparkling Montlouis, Stapleton Springer Moravia, Tim Phillips, Triple Zéro, Tuscan Wine
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Recent Wines November 2023 (Part 1) #theglouthatbindsus
November has seen me away from home quite a lot, so there are only ten wines we drank at home to tell you about, and nine out of those ten wines were European. At least this focuses the mind on … Continue reading
Posted in Alsace, Artisan Wines, Austrian Wine, German Wine, Italian Wine, Natural Wine, Slovakian Wine, Tuscan Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies
Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Alsace Muscat, Alsace Wine, Fattoria di Sammontana Sangiovese 2020, Jean-Pierre Rietsch Mittelbergheim, Joiseph Burgenland, Joiseph Mischkultur 2021, Klaus Peter Keller, Luka Zeichmann, Magula Frankovka 2016, Murmure Muscat 2021 Rietsch, Recent Wines November 2023 (Pt1), Silvaner Feuervogel 2018 Keller, Vino Magula Slovakia, Weingut Keller Rheinhessen
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Recent Wines October 2023 (Part 1) #theglouthatbindsus
With fifteen wines up for consideration here, I’m going to make October’s Recent Wines into three parts again. Only five wines in each, but easier to skim through. I’m doing this because it’s mainly regular readers who subscribe to Wideworldofwine … Continue reading
Posted in Arbois, Artisan Wines, Italian Wine, Jura, Natural Wine, Sherry, South African Wines, Spanish Wine, Tuscan Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies
Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, 69.999999 Shiraz 2016 Blank Bottle Winery, Agostado Cortado 2017 Bodegas Cota 45, Alexis and Emilie Porteret, Amélie Guillot Molamboz Jura, Arbois Chardonnay VV 2021 Amélie Guillot, Arbois Pinot Noir, Cota 45 Sanlúcar, Domaine des Bodines Arbois Pinot 2017, Jura Pinot Noir, Jura Wine, Perruno, Petrolo Torrione 2015, Pieter Walser Blank Bottle Winery, Ramiro Ibanez, Recent Wines October 2023 (Pt 1), Sangiovese Blend, South African Wine, Unfortified Palomino, Uva Rey, Val d'Arno di Sopra Tuscan Wine, Voor Paardeberg South Africa
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Three Go Mad In Islington – Nekter, Roland, Modal Portfolio 2019
The three dynamic, young and small importers featured here have not chosen a pithy name for themselves, like the “Dirty Dozen”, so I’ve kind of done it for them in my title (sorry chaps). Nekter Wines, Roland Wines and Modal … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Australian Wine, Austrian Wine, Californian Wine, Natural Wine, Slovakian Wine, Slovenian Wine, South African Wines, Spanish Wine, Tuscan Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged Benevolent Neglect Napa, Californian Carignane, Californian Counoise, Cascina Borgatta Tagliolo Monferrato, Clos des Plantes, Cutis Deviner, Entre Vinyes Cava Funambul, Fattoria di Sammontana Montelupo, Ferdinand Wines Amador County Tempranillo, Flow Blanc de Noirs, Fogosch 2017, From Sunday Lucky's Red, Johannes Zillinger Weinviertal, Joiseph Jois, Keep Wines California, Klabjan Slovenia, Malinga Sauvignon Blanc Kamptal, Modal Wines, Nekter Roland Modal Portfolio Tasting 2019, Nekter Wines, Olivier Lejeune Anjou, Pasarene Elgin, Piroska 2018, Roland Wines, Schenter Schönberg Riesling Kamptal, Schmolzer & Brown Beechworth, Slobodne Slovakia, Sota Els Àngels Empordà, Strekov1075 Slovakia, Vinarja Kriz Croatia, Whaka Piripiri Mai Chenin Blanc, Zemiansky Sady, Zillinger Revolution Solera
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