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Category Archives: Wine Agencies
Spice Oddity
Major Thom called Ground Control suggesting the India Club might be the venue at which to see whether the Oddities theme could work for Indian food. As it turned out, the wines were not really very odd (on the whole), … Continue reading
The Talented Mr Ripley
Okay, I admit, my proclivity for really corny headlines has seemingly gone too far this time, but you should not despair. Howard Ripley can be described as nothing less than talented, for he’s assembled much of the cream of German … Continue reading
Do You Keep Péts?
Long before someone other than Dom Pérignon thought of putting bubbles in Champagne and the whole méthode traditionelle was invented, bottle fermented wines were commercialised using the Ancestral Method (aka Rural Method). The plan is that you bottle the wine before … Continue reading
Rhone Away Success
Things so often happen in pairs, and after reading Matt Walls‘ really interesting article on Saint-Joseph in last month’s Decanter, I was invited by Vintrepid‘s Robbie Ward to a tasting of this appellation downstairs at Planet of the Grapes’ Holborn … Continue reading
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Having previously discussed how young people are thinking about wine these days (a theme I’ll pick up on again very soon), I have just heard about a really interesting company set up to sell premium and craft spirits by a … Continue reading
Viennese Whirl
Before Rust (see last post) we spent a week in Vienna consuming way too much food (and just about the right amount of wine). It was only my second visit to Vienna. I thought that after two visits my desire … Continue reading
Posted in Austria, Dining, Vienna, Wine, Wine Agencies
Tagged Austria, Austrian Wine, Café Central, Café Korb, Demel, El Gaucho Vienna, Glacis Beisl, Heuriger, Landtmann, Mayer-am-Pfarrplatz, Stürm, Vienna, Vienna Palmenhaus, Viennese Cafés, Viennese Sausage Stands, Wiener Beisl, Wiener Gemischter Satz, Wieninger
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Rust Never Sleeps
After a week of eating and drinking in Vienna, we made a journey I had been waiting to make since a planned visit to the Neusiedler See in 2013 had to be cancelled. And before talking about the wine I … Continue reading
Posted in Austrian Wine, Rust, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Tastings
Tagged Burgenland, Cycling in Austria, Heidi Schroeck, Mooslechner's Bürgerhaus, Neusiedler See, Rust, Ruster Ausbruch
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Dave’s Wine Heroes #4 – Yapp
Yapp Brothers holds a special place in my journey towards wine obsession. My first real introduction to what we might loosely call fane wane was via Majestic’s Ealing warehouse in the mid-1980s, but a nascent love of Northern Rhone (via some … Continue reading
Posted in Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Heroes, Wine Merchants
Tagged Loire, Mere, Provence, Rhone, Wine Heroes, Yapp
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The Power of Flor
Most serious wine lovers have known about the Equipo-Navazos operation for some time now. Peter Liem (in Sherry, Manzanilla & Montilla, Manutius, 2012) describes Equipo Navazos as “The most distinctive and unusual project to come out of the Sherry region in … Continue reading
Posted in Fine Wine, Sherry, Wine, Wine Agencies
Tagged Equipo Navazos, Florpower, Jerez, Navazos-Niepoort, Palomino, Sanlucar Palomino, Sherry, Wine
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David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 