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Category Archives: Wine Merchants
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
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Dynamic Day in London
There is a lot going on in the world of wine in London this week. Monday was no exception, but I’m so glad I decided to choose the trek down to the Spa Terminus for Dynamic Vines‘ 10 Year Anniversary … Continue reading
Squirrelled Away in Soho
It’s around 1pm on Wednesday and I’m walking through a big black door in Soho, entering the tight confines of a hallway to a very old town house. One young lady vets me, another locates my name on a list … Continue reading
Posted in Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged Altavia, Black's Club Soho, Clos Cibonne, David Bowley, Emil Bauer, Emily Scott, Eschenhof Holzer, Francesca Bruna, Franco Mondo, Frédéric Guilbaud, Kloster Ebernach, Ligurian Wine, Nik Darlington, Oli North, Parxet Cava, Parxet Titiana, Red Squirrel, Roberto Bruna, Sparkling Muscadet, Tenuta La Pergola, Vinteloper
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More from Germany (Howard Ripley)
The second instalment of Howard Ripley’s Germans was presented at Middle Temple Hall Yesterday, comprising the dry whites and reds, with a few strangers thrown in for good measure (one of which was my Wine of the Day!). I don’t … Continue reading
All’s Gut in Oggau
Many wine lovers will have heard of Rust, a lovely old town on Austria’s Neusiedlersee, southeast of Vienna and bordering Hungary. If they don’t know it for its famous storks which swoop majestically over the town and breed on its chimneys, … Continue reading
Out and About…Spa Treat…
Very few of the thousands of tourists who pack Borough Market on a Saturday know about what also lies to the south, still within the shadow of The Shard. But those who venture past Bermondsey Street and hit Druid Street … Continue reading
Posted in Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants
Tagged Bermondsey, Chateau Le Puy, Dynamic Vines, Gut Oggau, London Markets, Spa Terminus
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Out and About
No posts for ten days, but not exactly slacking. I’ve been out and about buying too much wine (as usual), and I thought I’d share some of these with you. I’ve got a few things to write about in the … 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
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David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 