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Category Archives: Wine Tastings
Autentikfest Moravia 2020 (by Zainab Majerikova)
Having become increasingly impressed with the wines of Czechia over the past three or four years I had set my heart on visiting Moravia in 2020. There was no better occasion to do so than for the annual Autentikfest. The … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, biodynamic wine, Czech Wine, Natural Wine, Slovakian Wine, Wine, Wine Festivals, Wine Tastings, Wine Travel
Tagged Autentikfest Moravia 2020, Autentiste Group of Wine Producers, Basket Press Wines, Boleradice, Czech Moravian Wine Festival, Czech Wine, Moravian Wine, Petr Korab and Autentikfest, Velkopavlovicka Wine Region, Zainab Majerikova
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Wine GB Awards 2020
Many of you will have seen the Trophy Winners of the Wine GB Awards 2020, announced around a week ago with an online presentation. Naturally, with the current pandemic, the Awards had to go “virtual” this year so there was … Continue reading
Posted in English Wine, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine Tastings
Tagged Ashling Park Wines, Black Chalk Wines, Breaky Bottom, Breaky Bottom Cuvée Michelle Moreau, Chapel Down Kit's Coty, Davenport HUX, Dermot Sugrue, Emma Rice, English and Welsh Wines, Gusbourne Wines, Harrow & Hope Wines, Hattingley Valley King's Cuvée 2014, Hidden Spring Vineyard Horam, Jenkyn Place Wines, Laneberg Wines Urban Winery, Sugrue Trouble With Dreams, Tyneside Urban Winery, UK Wine Awards, Wine GB Awards 2020, Wiston Estate
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Basket Press Wines at Plateau, Brighton (March 2020)
Oh how different the world seemed a couple of weeks ago. Basket Press Wines, the importer of primarily Czech wines, was down in Brighton to show some new wines and vintages to the staff of Plateau and Ten Green Bottles, … Continue reading
Posted in biodynamic wine, Cider, Czech Wine, Hungarian Wine, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged Annamária Réka, Basket Press Wines, Blauer Portugieser, Czech Cider, Czech Wine, Dva Duby, Hungarian Wine, Jaroslav Osicka, Királyleányka Grape Variety, Krasna Hora, Milerka, Modry Portugal, Ota Sevcik, Petr Korab, Réba-Koncz Hungary, Utopia Ciders, Vox in Excelsio 2017
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Dynamic By Name, Dynamic By Nature
The UK is blessed with an almost uncountable number of wonderful wine merchants, and I love too many of them to be deemed a truly loyal customer. They range from tiny enterprises like Basket Press, Modal Wines and Nekter up … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, biodynamic wine, Greek Wine, Jura, Natural Wine, Savoie Wine, Swiss Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged Biodynamic Bordeaux, Bordeaux Sans Sulfites, Bordeaux-Côtes-de-Francs, Burgenland Austria, Chateau Le Puy Bordeaux, Chiara de Iulis Pepe, Cosse Maisonneuve Cahors, Domaine de Beudon Fully, Domaine de la Tournelle Arbois, Domaine Giachino Savoie, Domaine Ligas Greece, Dynamic Vines, Dynamic Vines Portfolio Tasting 2020, Emidio Pepe, Emmanuel Giboulot Burgundy, Evelyne Clairet, Gut Oggau 2017s and 2018s, Gut Oggau Burgenland, Gut Oggau Family Reunion, Ktima Ligas Pella, La Tournelle Vin Jaune 2011, Matthieu Cosse, Modern Cahors, Montepulciano d'Abruzzo 1980, Neusiedlersee, Pascal Clairet, Prieuré Saint-Christoph, Roditis, Roussette de Savoie, Sulphur Free Bordeaux, Swiss Wine, Uva Arbosiana, Valais Wine, Xinomavro
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Taste Canada 2020
Taste Canada took place at Fare on Old Street this Monday. Westbury Communications laid on a tasting sponsored by the Government of Canada presenting many of the Canadian wines currently available in the UK along with a selection of producers looking for … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Tastings
Tagged Bachelder Niagara, Bay of Fundy, Benjamin Bridge, Burrowing Owl Okanagan, Canada Tasting at Fare London, Canadian Icewine, Clos Jordanne, Domaine Queylus, Flat Rock Cellars, Gaspereau Valley, Haywire wines, Henry of Pelham, Hidden Bench Estate, Icewine, Inniskillin Wines, Janet Fast, Le Vieux Pin Okanagan, Martin's Lane Okanagan, Meyer Family Vineyards, Moray Tawse, Niagara Peninsula, Okanagan Crush Pad, Okanagan Valley, Painted Rock Wines, Pelee Island Winery, Peller Estate, Peller Estates, Quail's Gate Wines, Rebel Pi, Roussanne Icewine, Stratus Wines Niagara, Taste Canada 2020, Tawse Winery, The Bub 2016, Thomas Bachelder, Unsworth Vineyards Vancouver Island, Westcott Vineyards, Wines of British Columbia, Wines of Nova Scotia, Wines of Ontario
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Vineyards of Hampshire – London Tasting February 2020
The Vineyards of Hampshire group held their sixth annual Trade and Press tasting at 67 Pall Mall on Tuesday. The eight producers present last year were joined this time by one new member, The Grange, which is the vineyard of the well known … Continue reading
Posted in English Wine, Rosé Wine, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Tastings
Tagged Black Chalk Wines, Cottonworth, Danebury Vineyards, Emma Rice, English Schönburger, English Sparkling Wine, English Wine, Entice Sweet Bacchus Dessert Wine, Exton Park, Hambledon Vineyard, Hattingley Valley Aqua Vitae, Hattingley Valley Wines, Jacob Leadley, Jenkyn Place Wines, Raimes Wines, The Grange Vineyard, Vineyards of Hampshire 2020 Tasting, Vineyards of Hampshire Group
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Binging on the Bogans’ 2018 Burgundies – Eyre, Haisma, Le Grappin et al
The festival of Burgundy tastings (some call it a circus) hits London in January. For some people it is the highlight of the wine year. Importers bombard their customers with invitations to events which overlap, so that some avid fans … Continue reading
Posted in Aligoté, Artisan Wines, Burgundy, Eastern European Wine, Fine Wine, Wine, Wine Tastings
Tagged Andrew Nielsen Winemaker, Burgundy 2018, Burgundy Tasting, Dagon Wines Romania, Du Grappin, Jane Eyre Burgundy 2018, Jane Eyre Winemaker, Jérémy Recchione, Le Grappin, Le Grappin 2018s, Mark Haisma, Romanian Wine
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