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Category Archives: Wine Shops
Like a Child in a Sweet Shop – Made From Grapes and Sevslo Wine, Glasgow
If you have been reading this blog recently you will probably have seen my piece on Vanessa Letort and her “Du Vin aux Liens” project, and the wine journey that flowed from my discovery of this wine collective and all … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Heroes, Wine Merchants, Wine Shops, Women in Wine
Tagged Glasgow wine shop, Liam Hanlon, Made from Grapes Glasgow, Natural Wine in Glasgow, Natural Wine in Scotland, Séverine Sloboda, Scottish Wine Importer, Sevslo Wine, Small Producer Wine Importer Scotland, Women in Wine
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Diatomists at Cork & Cask Winter Fair – A New Name in Sherry
Diatomists is a completely new name in Sherry to me. I think I remember spotting some Sherry in unusually-shaped half bottle flutes on the shelf behind the counter in the Cork & Cask shop in Edinburgh, but Cork & Cask’s … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Sherry, Spanish Wine, Wine, Wine Festivals, Wine Merchants, Wine Shops, Wine Tastings
Tagged Antonio Morenés Bertrán Diatomists, Artisan Sherry, Cork & Cask Winter Wine Fair, Diatomists Sherry Selections, Edinburgh Wine Fair, Miraflores Vineyard, Sanlucar Palomino, Sherry, Spanish Wine
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Cork & Cask Winter Wine Fair (Part 2)
Part 2 of the Cork & Cask Wine Fair notes follows on from where we left off in Part 1. It is back there that you will find my introduction if you haven’t already read it. You’ll find some nice … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Cider, English Cider, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Festivals, Wine Merchants, Wine Shops, Wine Tastings
Tagged Alex & Maria Koppitsch Burgenland, Bergkloster Riesling, Bott Frigyes Kadarka Slovakia, Casanova di Neri Rosso di Montalcino, Cathedral Pinot Noir, Cork & Cask Edinburgh, Cork & Cask Winter Wine Fair (Part 2), Cosse Maisonneuve Cahors, Domäne Wachau Beerenauslese Terrassen, Dynamic Vines, Edinburgh Wine Fair, English Craft Cider, Gutt Oggau Burgenland, Heinrich Gols Burgenland, Indigo Wines, Koppitsch Ret 2021, Koppitsch Wine Neusiedl, Little Pomona Cider Herefordshire, Martin Obenaus Zweigelt, Meinklang Vulkan Nr 2, Oszkar Maurer Serbia, Pilton Cider Somerset, Remelluri Rioja Reserva 2014, Rivesaltes Grenat Immortelle Roussillon, Roland Wines, Willian Downie Victoria Australia, Zsolt Suto
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The Good Wine Shop – Organic and Biodynamic Wines
It seems like I only occasionally write about wine shops these days but there is one, well actually four branches to be accurate, which up until now has always been under the radar of a lot of Londoners, their branches … Continue reading
Feral Art et Vin – Going Wild in Bordeaux
It’s an inescapable fact that the wine trade is, despite occasional deviations, one of the friendliest professions you could imagine working in. For some reason people in wine just seem on the whole to be extremely friendly, supportive, co-operative, and … Continue reading
The Christmas Popup You Mustn’t Miss (Basket Press Wines on Hackney Road)
I don’t know if you are like me but I love browsing. Record shops, book shops and yes, wine shops. I find it remarkably difficult to enter one of these establishments and to leave without a purchase. But aside from … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Christmas and Wine, Czech Wine, Hungarian Wine, Natural Wine, Slovakian Wine, Slovenian Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Shops
Tagged Basket Press Wines Popup Shop, Central European Wine, Czech Cider, Czech Wine, December Wine Popup, Jiri Majerik, Max Sein Franken, Reka-Koncz Hungary, Slovakian Wine, Wine Christmas Popup, Wine on Hackney Road, Zainab Majerikova
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Lockdown – The Good, The Bad and The Beautiful
Why Beautiful, not Ugly? There is no getting away from the fact that Coronavirus has been terrible. Remember early this year, Christmas holidays over, looking forward to 2020. Within a few months the lives of many were completely shattered whilst … Continue reading
