Previous Posts
Top Posts & Pages
- The World of Natural Wine by Aaron Ayscough (Book Review)
- Diatomists at Cork & Cask Winter Fair - A New Name in Sherry
- Tongba, A Study of Emptiness
- Cork & Cask Winter Wine Fair (Part 1)
- Breaky Bottom - A Different Perspective on English Wine
- Extreme Viticulture in Nepal
- Regenerative Viticulture by Dr Jamie Goode (Book Review)
- Wines of The Aveyron and a Little Vicarious Travel
- Tourist Jura - A Brief Guide to Arbois and Beyond
- Cork & Cask Winter Wine Fair (Part 2)
Category Archives: Wine Heroes
New Wine Leaders 1 – Christina Rasmussen
I was flicking through one of those trade magazines, one which always helps to form a disorderly pile beside my bed after a big event like the London Wine Fair. Anyway, this copy had one of those rankings of young … Continue reading
Posted in Californian Wine, Natural Wine, Viticulture, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Heroes, Wine Writing, Women in Wine
Tagged Abe Schoener Scholium Project, Christina Rasmussen, Daniella Pillhofer, Littlewine, Los Angeles River Wine Co, Oxfordshire Vineyard, Rajat Parr, Westbury Comms Wine PA, Wine Leaders in Taste, Young People in Wine
Leave a comment
Paradise Lost – A Eulogy for Two Great Natural Winemakers
I’m sure that most readers will know by now that this year has already seen the loss of too many winemakers. The death of one who meant a lot to me happened in tragic circumstances on 5th May, Pascal Clairet … Continue reading
Posted in Arbois, Artisan Wines, biodynamic wine, Jura, Natural Wine, Savoie Wine, Wine, Wine Heroes
Tagged Ayze Savoie, Cul de Brey, Domaine Belluard Ayse, Domaine Belluard Gringet Le Feu, Domaine de la Tournelle Arbois, Dominique Belluard, Gringet Grape, L'Uva Arbosiana, Les Perles du Mont Blanc, Pascal Clairet, Winemaker Eulogies
2 Comments
Clonakilla
It doesn’t need anything else in the title, does it. I’ve said before that by personal favourite Australian wine estates have long been Jasper Hill, in Heathcote, and Clonakilla, at Murrumbateman in Canberra District. In the first of my string … Continue reading
Posted in Australian Wine, Wine, Wine Heroes, Wine Travel
Tagged Ballinderry 2017, Canberra District Shiraz-Viognier 2018, Canberra District Wine, Ceoltoiri, Clonakilla, Clonakilla Chardonnay, Clonakilla Riesling 2018, Clonakilla Viognier, Hilltops NSW Wine Region, Hilltops Shiraz 2018, John Kirk Clonakilla, Murrumbateman Wine, O'Riada Shiraz 2017, Tim Kirk Winemaker, Top Wines of NSW
2 Comments
Central Victoria Part 2 – Bindi
We have moved south from Bendigo, which was our first destination on this Australian adventure, to the Macedon Ranges. If you drive north out of Melbourne the first wine region you hit is Sunbury. North of that you come to … Continue reading
A Lodi Old Vines with Abe Schoener
I’m not usually star struck when it comes to people in wine, but I have to admit that the wines of Abe Schoener’s Scholium Project had a big influence on me when I first came across them through The Sampler … Continue reading
Posted in Californian Wine, Wine, Wine Heroes, Wine Tastings
Tagged Abe Schoener, Bechtold Ranch, Christina Rasmussen, Kirschenmann Vineyard Lodi, Lodi, Lodi Old Vines, Sadie Family Mev Kirsten Chenin 2016, Sadie Family Soldaat Grenache 2016, Sager+Wilde Hackney Road Event, Sandlands Wines, Scholium Project, Tegan Passalacqua, Testalonga Bandito Cortez Chenin 2017, Turley Wines
Leave a comment
Eastern France Part 2 – Jean-Pierre Rietsch, Mittelbergheim
Sometimes a visit to a producer can be quite a revelation, and this usually happens when you don’t know their wines all that well. Of course, like many of my readers, I’ve drunk a few of Jean-Pierre Rietsch‘s gems, but this … Continue reading
Posted in Alsace, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Heroes, Wine Travel
Tagged Alsace Wine, Demoiselle Gewurztraminer 2016, Eastern France Trip 2017, Jean-Pierre Rietsch, Klevener de Heiligenstein, Mittelbergheim, Murmure Cuvée, Pas a Pas Savagnin Rose, Rietsch Réserve Perpetuelle, Savagnin Rose Grape Variety, Stierkopf, Sylvaner, Sylvaner Zotzenberg Grand Cru
4 Comments
The Emperor’s New Clothes are Real
This is just a quick shout for Newcomer Wines, the Austrian specialist wine merchant who used to be in Shoreditch Boxpark. The emperor in this case is, with typical corny humour, naturally one of the Habsburgs, and whilst in the … Continue reading
Posted in Austrian Wine, Natural Wine, Neusiedlersee, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Heroes, Wine Merchants, Wine Shops
Tagged Andreas Nittnaus, Austrian Wine, Austrian Wine in London, Christian Tschida, Claus Preisinger, Czech Wine, Fed by Water Dalston, Fed by Water Hackney, Fed by Water Vegan Cafe, London Wine Shops, Milan Nestarec, Newcomer Wines, Puszta Libre
2 Comments
Small is Beautiful
Regular readers will know who I’ve been buying wine from in 2015, my favourite small merchants and wine shops. There is another group of people who maybe don’t get as much press, or coverage in social media, who are doing … Continue reading
Posted in Austrian Wine, Burgundy, Languedoc-Roussillon, Swiss Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Heroes, Wine Merchants
Tagged Alpine Wines, Coche-Dury, Domaine de Cébène, Domaine Montesquiou, Domaine Treloar, Dry River, Hand Picked Burgundy, Heidi Schrock, Leon Stolarski, Rainer Christ, Rhys, Simon Maye & Fils, Specialist Wine Merchants
3 Comments
Children of the (Austrian Wine) Revolution
Newcomer Wines is a fixture of London’s Shoreditch Boxpark, a wonderful retail concept with units sitting inside shipping containers next to Shoreditch overground rail station. The name doesn’t give much away, does it? Newcomer is actually an Austrian Wine specialist, … Continue reading
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
Leave a comment
David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 