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Cork & Cask Winter Wine Fair 2023 (Part 3): Vine Trail, Southern Spain and Arran Whisky
Parts 1 and 2 of my selections from the Cork & Cask Winter Wine Fair contained wines from six small independent importers. Part 3 Shows some wines from Vine Trail, along with some delicious gems from Southern Spain poured on … Continue reading
Posted in Natural Wine, Sherry, Spanish Wine, Whisky, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Festivals, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged Amorro Wines, Arran Gold Cream Liqueur, Arran Whisky, Bodega Vinificante Mahara, Cédric Perraud Etna Rosso Goccia, Cork & Cask Winter Wine Fair 2023 (Pt 3), Diatomists Sherry, Domaine Bernard Gripa, Edinburgh Wine Fair, Fabrice Gripa Saint-Joseph Blanc, Isle of Arran Distillery, Jerez Wine, Lagg Corriecravie Single Malt, Lagg Distillery Arran, Marc Tempé Riesling AmZelle 2019, Natural Wine, Northern Rhône Wine, Single Malt Whisky, Veronica Ortega Bierzo Quite 2020, Vine Trail
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Cork & Cask Winter Wine Fair 2023 (Part 2): Roland Wines, Element Wines and Modal Wines
Part 1 from the Cork & Cask Winter Wine Fair covered wines from Indigo Wines, Keeling Andrew and Dynamic Vines. Part 2 here follows the same path, with a selection from the wines poured by Roland Wines, Element Wines and … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Austrian Wine, German Wine, Italian Wine, Natural Wine, Portuguese wine, Slovakian Wine, Spanish Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Festivals, Wine Merchants, Wine Shops, Wine Tastings
Tagged Andi Mann Rheinhessen, Burgenland Wine, Cork & Cask Winter Wine Fair (Pt 2), Edinburgh Wine Scene, Element Wines Edinburgh, Fangareggi Puro Lambrusco Rosso, Fanrareggi Biancospino Lambrusco, Fattoria di Sammontana Sangiovese IGT, Finca El Molar Macabeo Skin Contact, Finca El Molar Manchuela, Folas de Baco Curtido, Folias de Baco Rabigato Douro, Johannes Zillinger Weinviertel, Koppitsch Homok 2022, Koppitsch Neusiedl am See, Koppitsch Rét 2022, Lambrusco Salamino di Santa Croce, Martin Obenaus Weinviertel, Modal Wines, Natural Wine, Obenaus Mo:Rot Zweigelt, Portuguese wine, Roland Wines, Slobodne Majer, Slobodne Slovakia, Thörle Rheinhessen, Thörle Spätburgunder 2021, Wine Fairs, Wine Fairs in Edinburgh, Zillinger Numen Fume Blanc
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Recent Wines October 2023 (Part 2) #theglouthatbindsus
For our second batch of wines drunk at home in February we dart all over Europe, starting out in Devon of all places, followed by the Rioja Region (but not Rioja), Faugères (an all too rare visit to Languedoc, I … Continue reading
Posted in Aosta, Artisan Wines, English Wine, German Wine, Italian Wine, Languedoc-Roussillon, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies
Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Bacchus from Devon, Castlewood Vineyards Artefact 2021, Castlewood Vineyards Devon, Domaine du Méteore Faugères, Domaine du Méteore Leonides 2019, Elio Ottin Aosta, Faugères Wine, German Pinot Gris, Gonzalo Grijalba, Gran Cerdo Tempranillo, Grauer Burgunder Kalkmergel Becker Pfalz, Ottin Torrette Superieur 2016, Petit Rouge Grape Variety, Recent Wine October 2023 (Pt 2), Rheinpfalz Grauburgunder, Schweigen-Rechtenbach Pfalz, Torrette Superieur, Val d'Aosta Wine, Vallée d'Aoste Wine, Weingut Friedrich Becker Schweigen Pfalz
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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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Czech Wines – Another Unashamed Plug
If you ask any deeply interested wine lover where is hot right now you may get a variety of answers, but I would argue that the place with the buzz is Czechia (or the Czech Republic if you prefer). It … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Czech Wine, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Travel
Tagged Basket Press Wines, Czech Artisan Winemakers, Czech Wine, Czech Wine importers, Emerging Wine Region, Jaroslav Osicka, Milan Nestarec, Moravian Wine, Natural Wine Movement in Czechia, Newcomer Wines, Petr Korab, Prost Wines, Richard Stavek
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Recent Wines September 2023 (Part 1) #theglouthatbindsus
After the big batch of wines we drank here during August, September’s selection is somewhat smaller, but I hope the ten wines I have chosen are as interesting as ever. Part One is made up of five wines, the first … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Czech Wine, Natural Wine, Swiss Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies
Tagged Alsace Wine, Baden Wine, Chablais Wine, Chasselas, Czech Wine, Dertingen Wine, Domaine Albert Hertz Eguisheim, Du Vin Aux Liens La Petite Lanterne, Frédéric Hertz Winemaker, German Wine, Henri Badoux Aigle Les Murailles 2021, La Petite Lanterne Petnat Alsace, Max Baumann Winemaker, Max Sein Wein Rouge 2019, Moravian Wine, Petr Korab Solar Red 2022, Ryzlink Vlassky 2018 Syfany Winery, Swiss Wine, Vanessa Letort, Vaud Wine
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David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 