Category Archives: Wine Agencies

Raw London 2019, Part 1

Posted on 12/03/2019 by dccrossley

Mad March, that time of year when wine importers think we are capable of getting to four or five tastings a day trundles on (no exaggeration, as well as Raw yesterday there were at least four other “unmissable” wine events). … Continue reading →

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Invivo – Spirit of Vienna

Posted on 04/03/2019 by dccrossley

During my last visit to Vienna a friend asked me if I wanted to arrange a spirits tasting with a relatively new distiller in the city, but my diary was completely full. As recompense we tasted through part of the … Continue reading →

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Vineyards of Hampshire

Posted on 26/02/2019 by dccrossley

Vineyards of Hampshire is an umbrella organisation for what is now eight sparkling wine producers from the county, who seem to have got their act together for joint promotion. I say “now eight” because the original seven have recently been … Continue reading →

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“…Yellow, Orange and Red” – the Diverse and Wonderful Indigo Portfolio

Posted on 25/02/2019 by dccrossley

I used to think of Indigo Wine as a small-to-medium importer with a portfolio focused on Spain, but in truth they seem to have grown rather rapidly into something larger and much more diverse, but without loss of direction. There’s … Continue reading →

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Winemakers Club, Otros Vinos and Wines Under the Bonnet by Inna Sirota

Posted on 24/02/2019 by dccrossley

Having made rash promises more than a week ago about all the articles I was going to write, I promptly got ill. Those promises will be met, eventually, but in the meantime I was unable to make it to the tasting at Antidote earlier this week.  Help was at hand…Inna Sirota has provided some notes on her favourite  wines from this event. I hope that they provide some recompense for my own  inactivity. I’d like to thank her for generously giving of her time to provide a  record of this important tasting. Inna spent fifteen years crunching numbers in New York (banking) and London (Google) before deciding to quit finance in order to concentrate on her passion for wine travel … Continue reading →

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Nekter-Roland-Modal

Posted on 14/02/2019 by dccrossley

February is the month when we suddenly begin to see calendar congestion. The Spring portfolio tastings come so thick and fast that it is unfortunately impossible to go to them all. I’ve tried to select a good variety. The first … Continue reading →

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Wines of the Year 2018 and stuff like that

Posted on 26/11/2018 by dccrossley

It seems a little early to be doing a review of the year at the end of November, but I suspect there will be plenty of other things I want to write about before the Christmas hangover has disappeared, so … Continue reading →

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Les Caves at Pew Corner

Posted on 15/11/2018 by dccrossley

Everyone knows Les Caves de Pyrene, right? Celebrating their 30th Anniversary this year, it is easy to forget, in a country awash with fine young importers of natural and biodynamic wines, that Les Caves were the pioneers. Their portfolio is now … Continue reading →

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40 Maltby Street

Posted on 31/10/2018 by dccrossley

London is full of restaurants which are without any doubt “worth a detour” in Michelin parlance, and despite the pressures on our economy they continue to open, for now. What with trying to keep up, which I am failing miserably … Continue reading →

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Moldova – Didn’t See That Coming

Posted on 15/10/2018 by dccrossley

It’s fair to say that many wine lovers would be hard pushed to pinpoint Moldova on a map, let alone realise that it is a country with a very long winemaking history. Sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine, most of Moldova … Continue reading →

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