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“Ugly Ducklings Can Be Swans” (Says Doug Wregg)

Posted on 16/04/2019 by dccrossley

Ugly Ducklings can be Swans! That was the title of the tasting given by Doug Wregg at Solent Cellar in Lymington on Friday night. Doug’s company, Les Caves de Pyrene, has proved that statement a thousand times over in the thirty-odd … Continue reading →

Posted in Artisan Wines, Grape Varieties, Natural Wine, Slovenian Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Shops, Wine Tastings | Tagged Beaujolais Les Pierres Bleues, Božidar Zorjan, Carignan Lo Vielh, Caves de Pyrene Tasting in Lymington, Clos Gravillas, Domaine de la Senechalière, Doug Wregg, Goisot Bourgogne Aligoté, Jean-Pierre Frick, Julien Guillot, Marc Pesnot, Melon Miss Terre, Moussamoussettes, René Mosse, Slovenian Wine, Solent Cellar Tastings, Sylvaner Bergweingarten, Zorjan Muscat Ottonel Dolium | 2 Comments

Small Importers at Winemakers Club

Posted on 25/03/2019 by dccrossley

On the Monday of Raw London 2019, Winemakers Club hosted a tasting of ten importers. I managed to get to taste a handful of wines from eight of them, before heading thirty minutes down the road to Raw on The … Continue reading →

Posted in Artisan Wines, biodynamic wine, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings | Tagged Ancre Hill Orange Wine, Ancre Hill Triomphe, ArPePe Grumello Valtellina, Bio Bio Pais, Bodegas Fulcro Aliaxe Furtivo, Caprera Fortuna, Carte Blanche Wines, Château Barouillet Splash, Christoph Heiss, Claus Preisinger, Contra Soarda, Cossard Saint-Romain Combe Bazin, Didier Grappe Saint-Lothian Jura, Fabien Jouves Cahors Malbec Amphore, Ferme des Sept Lunes Saint-Joseph, Franz Strohmeier Styria, Gabrio Bini Fanino, Gergovie Wines, Horiot Riceys, J-P Robinot Lumière des Sens, L'Acino Sputnik 1, La Grange de L'Oncle Charles, Laurent Roger Rivesaltes, Le Petit Gimios Rouge Fruit, Les Têtes Azay-le-Rideau, Malinga Kamptal, Manoir de la Tête Rouge Saumur, Martin Nittnaus, Melissa Ingrand Rivesaltes, Michel Guignier Fleurie, Microbio Wines, Modal Wines, Mouthes le Bihan Duras, Musso Terra, Newcomer Wines, Nibiru Alte Reben Blauer Portugieser, Rennersistas Weissburgunder 2016, Roberto Henriques Pais, Skerlj Carso Malvasia, Slobodne Eggstasy Slovakia, Totem Wines, Tutto Wines, Wasenhaus Baden Nouveau, Winemakers Club, Winemakers Club Tasting March 2019, Wines Under the Bonnet | Leave a comment

Bordeaux – The Risk Takers (Vine Trail)

Posted on 21/03/2019 by dccrossley

This fascinating tasting took place at Carousel on Blandford Street, London, on 6 March 2019. I say fascinating and I’m guessing that might elicit a snigger from those who are used to very traditional, conservative and expensive Bordeaux. However, Vine … Continue reading →

Posted in biodynamic wine, Bordeaux Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings | Tagged Bordeaux Biodynamics, Bordeaux The Risk Takers, Bordeaux wine, Chateau Bel Air Marquis d'Aligre, Chateau Beynat Castillon, Chateau Cru Godard (Francs), Chateau du Champ des Treilles, Chateau La Grave Figeac, Clos 19 Bis, Clos du Jagueyron Margaux, Closeries des Moussis, Osama Uchida Haut-Médoc, Rousset-Peyraguey Sauternes, Sainte-Foy-Bordeaux, Vine Trail | Leave a comment

“…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 →

Posted in Artisan Wines, Beer, Portuguese wine, Spanish Wine, Vegan Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings | Tagged Beavertown Seven Deadly Sins, Biercraft Portfolio 2019, Birgit Braunstein Burgenland, Bodegas Peixes Galicia, Braybrooke Beer Co, César Marquéz Bierzo, China Exchange Tastings, Coto de Gomariz Ribeiro, Dominio del Águila Ribera del Duero, El Chibirique 2016, El Ciruelo2016, Eugenio Bocchino Alba, Evening Land Amity Hills, Fedellos de Couto, Gaintza Getaria, Hirsch Kamptal, Honey Märzen Beavertown/Braybrooke, Indigo Wine Portfolio 2019, La Floridita 2018, Lobban Wines, Lucky Saint alcohol free lager, Pamela Geddes, Peter Wetzer Sopron, Ribera Sacra, Salem Wine Company, Suertes del Marqués Tenerife, Txacoli, Vitor Claro Portalegre | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Inna Sirota, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings | Tagged André Durrmann Andlau, Bodega La Senda Bierzo, Costador Terroirs Mediterrani, El Aqueronte 2017, Inna Sirota, Ismael Gozalo, Karim Vionnet Beaujolais, Kastelberg Riesling Nature 2017, Metamorphika, Microbio Wines, Otros Vinos, Quillette 2016, Setriolo Chianti Classico 2014, Sin Nombre 2016, Sumoll Blanc Brisat 2016, Thomas Boutin Loire, Winemakers Club, Wines Under the Bonnet | 2 Comments

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 →

Posted in Austrian Wine, biodynamic wine, Californian Wine, Czech Wine, Hungarian Wine, Natural Wine, South African Wines, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings | Tagged Atelier Kramar Slovenia, Bencze Birtok, BFF 2017, Bott Frigyes Pohron Slovakia, Bryan MacRobert Wines, Cascina Borgatta, Dave Geyer Barossa, Donkey and Goat, Ferdinand Wines, Fogosch 2017, Fred #1 Red Blend, Geyer Wines, Giorgio Clai Istria Croatia, Grabenwerkstatt Spitz Wachau, Klabjan Istria, Little Bastard White Blend, Luka Zeichmann, Matthiasson Family, Maurer Family, Modal Wines, Nekter Wines, Nibiru, Nic Rizzi, Paserene, Roland Szimeiszter, Roland Wines, Roter Faden, Serbian Wines, Silice Viticultores, Slobodne Cutis Deviner 2015, Staffelter Hof Krov, Strekov1075, Suto Zsolt, Tendu, Trade Tastings February 2019, Weingut Joiseph | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in Artisan Wines, biodynamic wine, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Shops | Tagged Les Caves de Pyrene, Les Caves de Pyrene Warehouse Shop, Pew Corner Artington, Visit Les Caves de Pyrene | 1 Comment

Take a Quick SWiG

Posted on 08/10/2018 by dccrossley

Back on 25th September I was at the Out The Box young importers tasting and I promised to put up some notes on what I tried from Swig at the end of last week, following their joint Portfolio tasting with Uncharted Wines. That turned … Continue reading →

Posted in Alsace, Natural Wine, South African Wines, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings | Tagged AA Badenhorst Family Wines, Adi Badenhorst, BK Wines Adelaide Hills, Blank Bottle Wines, Boina Douro, Champagne Collard-Picard, Claus Schneider Baden, Coteaux Champenois Meunier, Emmanuelle Milan, Les Louves 2014, Mathieu Deiss, Out The Box 2018, Pieter Walser, Skin n Bones, SWIG, Swig at the China Exchange 2018, Vignoble du Reveur | Leave a comment

Uncharted Territory

Posted on 03/10/2018 by dccrossley

I had intended to write an article combining the wines from Uncharted Wines and Swig that I tasted last week at Out the Box with those I tasted at their joint portfolio tasting at The China Exchange in Soho yesterday. Looking at the number of wines I want … Continue reading →

Posted in Artisan Wines, English Wine, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings | Tagged AA Badenhorst, Blank Bottle, Celler Frisach, Chateau Yvonne Saumur, Conca de Barbera new producers, David Chapel, Domaine du Petit Août Hautes Alpes, Huis Van Chevallerie Filia Brut 2014, Jean-Baptiste Souillard, Keg Wine, Le Grappin Aligoté Skin 2017, Maison Nicolas Morin, Mosel Lieser, Olivier Morin, Out The Box 2018, Pieter Walser, Rupert Taylor, St Cyr Kanon Keg, Succés Vinicola, Sybille Kuntz, The Hermit Ram, Theo Coles, Uncharted China Exchange Tasting, Uncharted Wines, Vigna San Lorenzo, Westwell Amphora 2017, Westwell Pelegrim, Westwell Wines, Yann de Agostini | Leave a comment

Out the Box 2018

Posted on 01/10/2018 by dccrossley

September is a busy month for Tastings, so I apologise that this article is appearing, unusually, almost a week after the event. I’m covering five importers here: Maltby & Greek, Modal Wines, The Knotted Vine, Basket Press Wines and Red Squirrel Wine. I simply … Continue reading →

Posted in Artisan Wines, Czech Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings | Tagged Albino Rocca Barbaresco, Basket Press Wines, Chateau de Bel, David Knott, De Kleine Wijn Koöp, Domaine Kalathas, Eekhoring Wines, El Cosmonauta, El Mozo Rioja Alavesa, Faan Rabie, Greek Wine, Jakub Novak Moravia, Jiri Majerik Basket Press Wines, Joiseph Austria, Joiseph Tannenberg 2016, Koerner Clare Valley, Lectores Vini Pomagrana, Luka Zeichmann, Magula Family Winery, Maltby & Greek, Modal Wines, Morgado do Quintao Algarve, Nic Rizzi, Noelia Ricci Emilia Romagna, Ou Treffer Cinsaut, Out The Box 2018, Red Squirrel Wine, Richard Stavek Moravia, Slobodne Slovakia, Tenuta di Angoris, The Knotted Vine, Tim Manning, Tinos Wine, Valdonica Tuscany | 2 Comments

Category Archives: Wine Merchants

“Ugly Ducklings Can Be Swans” (Says Doug Wregg)

Bordeaux – The Risk Takers (Vine Trail)

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

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

Les Caves at Pew Corner

Take a Quick SWiG

Uncharted Territory

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