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London Wine Fair 2018 Part 2 – Drinks Britannia and the Trading Floor

Posted on 27/05/2018 by dccrossley

In Part 1 of my review of the 2018 London Wine Fair I concentrated on the small importers in the Esoterica area, where you could find perhaps the real excitement of the event. If you haven’t already read Part 1, you can catch … Continue reading →

Posted in English Wine, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Festivals, Wine Merchants | Tagged Abbazia di Novacella, Astrum Wines, Bolney Estate, Craft Cider, Drinks Britannia, London Wine Fair 2018, Natural Cider, Natural Cyder, Nyetimber, Nyetimber Tillington 2013, Praepositus wines, Starvecrow Cider, Tavignano | 3 Comments

London Wine Fair 2018 Part 1 – Esoterica

Posted on 22/05/2018 by dccrossley

It’s that time of year when the London Wine Fair comes to London’s Olympia. For anyone who has never been, it’s an enormous three day event, boasting 14,000 wines from 40 countries. The vast “trading floor” has many gems among the diaspora … Continue reading →

Posted in Artisan Wines, Czech Wine, Natural Wine, Swiss Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Festivals, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings | Tagged 266 Wines, Alpine Wines, Basket Press Wines, Czech Wine, Eclectic Wines, Greek Wine, H2Vin, Indigo Wine, London Wine Fair 2018, Maltby & Greek, Modal Wines, Red Squirrel Wine, Southern Wine Roads, Swiss Wines, The Knotted Vine | 4 Comments

Otros Vinos, Spring 2018: Spain’s Wild Frontier

Posted on 09/05/2018 by dccrossley

Over the past few years there has been a genuine widening of what wine lovers are prepared to consider exciting and ground breaking in the world of wine. The natural wine movement has drawn attention to hundreds of small time … Continue reading →

Posted in Natural Wine, Spanish Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings | Tagged Airen Wines, Alpujarras Wine, Bodega Cauzon Granada, Brisat Wines, Clot de les Soleres, Costador Terroirs, Fabio Bartolomei, Forcallat Grape Variety, Granada Wine, High Altitude Vines, Los Comuns Priorat, Marenas Montilla, Metamorphika Label, Morenillo Grape Variety, Natural Wine, Otros Vinos Spring Portfolio 2018, Purulio Granada, Ramon Saavedra, Spanish Artisan Wines, Spanish Wine, Sumoll, Sumoll Blanc, Torcuato Huertas, Verdevique Las Alpujarras, Vigiriego Grape Variety, Vina Enebro Bullas, Vinos Ambiz Sierra de Gredos, Vinos Patio La Mancha, Wine Tastings | 1 Comment

Mood Indigo – Indigo Wines Portfolio 2018

Posted on 22/02/2018 by dccrossley

The Vinyl Factory is a nostalgic venue for any music lover. Even the entrance has its charm because you go in via Phonica Records on Soho’s Poland Street, past the vinyl and CDs, before descending. I always enjoy an event … Continue reading →

Posted in Artisan Wines, Volcanic Wines, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings | Tagged Birgit Braunstein Purbach, Breuer Nonnenberg, Castro Ventosa, Cesar Marques, Channing Daughters Clones, Eduardo Torres Acosta, Envinate Tenerife, Eulogio Pomares, Fossil Valle da Capucha Lisbon, Frederick Stevenson Wines, Hoffmann & Rathbone, Indigo Wine Portfolio Tasting, Javier Revert, Kras Wines Slovenia, Long Island Wine, Mother Rock Swartland, Ochota Barrels, Pax Mahle, Peter Wetzer Sopron, Raul Perez, Steve Crawford, Theresa Breuer, Vina Cotar Slovenia, Vinyl Factory Wine Tastings, Weingut Georg Breuer Rudesheim | 2 Comments

Great Exhibition 2018 – with the emphasis on Great

Posted on 13/02/2018 by dccrossley

Yesterday was the Winter 2018 Great Exhibition Tasting in the arches under Holborn Viaduct, this time featuring Winemakers Club and Carte Blanche Wines. These Tastings are always good, but there must have been something in the air yesterday, because there … Continue reading →

Posted in biodynamic wine, Champagne, Hungarian Wine, Natural Wine, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings | Tagged Adrien Dhondt, Ancre Hill Estate, Ben Walgate, Benoit Dehu, Carte Blanche Wines, Christelle Guibert Orange Wine Itata, Craig Sheard, Dhondt-Grellet, Domaine des Marnes Blanches, Domaine L'Ecu, Elemental Bob, Eliane Delalot, Fabien Jouves, Great Exhibition Tasting 2018, Gudfish Wines, Hegyikalo, Jerome Francois, Karim Vionnet Beaujolais, La Grange de L'Oncle Charles, Maxime Magnon, Meinklang H15, Olivier Horiot, Pelle Pince Alma Palinka, PN17 Petnat, Rosé des Riceys, Stefan Vetter, Sylvaner, Tillingham Wines, Tom Shobbrook, Vincent Caillé, Winemakers Club | 2 Comments

Basket Press Wines at Plateau

Posted on 02/02/2018 by dccrossley

Even I, known for my terrible puns, was able to avoid using some awful pun about czeching out Basket Press Wines and Plateau, Brighton’s brilliant natural wine bar/restaurant in The Lanes, in the title of this article, but I would … Continue reading →

Posted in Alsace, Czech Wine, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Bars, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings | Tagged Basket Press Wines, Cabernet Moravia Crossing, Czech Wines, Dobra Vinice, Jaroslav Osicka, Jaroslav Springer, Krasna Hora Sekt, Modry Portugal, Moravian Orange Wine, Moravian Wines, Noble Fine Liquor Farringdon Road, Ota Sevcik, Petr Korab, Plateau Wine Bar Brighton, Richard Stavek, Spigle Bocky Orange Wine, Stapleton & Springer, Tomas Cacik | 3 Comments

It’s a Wonderful Life (That You Bring)

Posted on 31/01/2018 by dccrossley

I’ve been up to a few things this month that didn’t really fit into any of the other articles, and I thought I’d mention them here. They do amount to a free plug for the places mentioned, but I don’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Dining, Natural Wine, Savoie Wine, Wine, Wine Merchants, Wine Shops | Tagged 67 Pall Mall, Dominique Lucas, Ganevat Vin Jaune 2006, Huet Vouvray Le Mont Sec 1995, Les Vignes de Paradis, Noble Fine Liquor, Noble Rot, Solent Cellar, Splash Pétnat Château Barouillet, The Shipyard Lymington, Winemakers Club | Leave a comment

The Power…and the Glory – Australia Day Tasting, London 2018

Posted on 25/01/2018 by dccrossley

I hadn’t been to the annual ADT event in London for a few years and coming back to it didn’t really feel like being away. Crowded (okay, really popular), quite hot (an issue for some of the red wines, with … Continue reading →

Posted in Australian Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings | Tagged ADT, Australia Day Tasting, Australian Wine, Cherubino Laissez Faire Range, Clonakilla Canberra, Dal Zotto King Valley, David Franz, David Knott, Enotria and Coe at ADT, Flor Marché, Garagiste Mornington Peninsula, Henschke Julius Riesling, House of Arras, Jeffrey Grosset, Koerner Clare Valley, Kooyong, Larry Cherubino, LAS Vino, Liberty Wines at ADT, McWilliams Mount Pleasant, Pizzini, SC Pannell, Spunk Nat, Ten Minutes By Tractor, The Knotted Vine | Leave a comment

Zoo Time – Wide World of Wine Awards 2017

Posted on 06/12/2017 by dccrossley

To be completely honest, I’ve never really been a great fan of Awards. Well, not since I used to fill in the NME’s Musicians of the Year Poll, which I can tell you was a very long time ago. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Shops | Tagged Alpine Wines, Austrian Wines Specialists, Cave Les Papilles Paris, Howard Ripley, Les Caves de Pyrene, Natural Wine Specialists, Newcomer Wines, Noble Fine Liquor, Otros Vinos, Red Squirrel Wine, Solent Cellar Lymington, Swiss Wines Specialists, Tutto Wines, Uncharted Wines, Wide World of Wine Awards 2017, Winemakers Club | Leave a comment

Ultravino Piemonte at 67 Pall Mall

Posted on 21/11/2017 by dccrossley

There were two good reasons to head up to London on the train yesterday lunchtime, despite a long morning drive beforehand, to taste Ultravino‘s Piemontese offerings at 67 Pall Mall. Just as well there were two reasons, as the Tasting, … Continue reading →

Posted in Fine Wine, Italian Wine, Piemonte, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings | Tagged Angelo Ferrio, Arneis, Barbaresco, Barolo, Barolo Bussia, Barolo Cannubi 2013, Barolo Mosconi 2013, Barolo Villero, Carlo Revello, Cascina Val di Prete, Cà Rossa Roero, Chiara Boschis, E Pira & Figli, Giorgio Pelissero, Giovanni Almondo, Grasso Family of Serralunga, Italian Wine Tastings, La Briccolina, Livia Fontana, Nebbiolo, Paitin, Palladino Barolo, Piedmont, Piemonte Wine, Rocche dell' Annunziata, Roero, Serraboella, Sori Paitin, Tiziano Grasso, Ultravino at 67 Pall Mall 2017, Ultravino Piedmont Wines, Wine Tastings, Wine Tastings at 67 Pall Mall | Leave a comment

Category Archives: Wine Merchants

London Wine Fair 2018 Part 2 – Drinks Britannia and the Trading Floor

Otros Vinos, Spring 2018: Spain’s Wild Frontier

Mood Indigo – Indigo Wines Portfolio 2018

Great Exhibition 2018 – with the emphasis on Great

Basket Press Wines at Plateau

It’s a Wonderful Life (That You Bring)

The Power…and the Glory – Australia Day Tasting, London 2018

Zoo Time – Wide World of Wine Awards 2017

Ultravino Piemonte at 67 Pall Mall

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