Category Archives: Wine Heroes

Paradise Lost – A Eulogy for Two Great Natural Winemakers

Posted on 21/06/2021 by dccrossley

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 →

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Clonakilla

Posted on 13/12/2019 by dccrossley

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 →

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Central Victoria Part 2 – Bindi

Posted on 05/12/2019 by dccrossley

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 →

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A Lodi Old Vines with Abe Schoener

Posted on 05/07/2018 by dccrossley

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 →

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Eastern France Part 2 – Jean-Pierre Rietsch, Mittelbergheim

Posted on 08/11/2017 by dccrossley

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 →

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The Emperor’s New Clothes are Real

Posted on 26/01/2017 by dccrossley

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 →

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Small is Beautiful

Posted on 17/12/2015 by dccrossley

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 →

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Children of the (Austrian Wine) Revolution

Posted on 09/12/2015 by dccrossley

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 →

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Dave’s Wine Heroes #4 – Yapp

Posted on 12/05/2015 by dccrossley

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 →

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