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Category Archives: Wine Tastings
Great Exhibition 2018 – with the emphasis on Great
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
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Les Vignes Retrouvées – The Story of Plaimont
If you remember the commercial wines of the Plaimont Co-operative in France’s Gers Region from back in the 1980s (okay, well maybe your parents drank them), when Colombard made in almost a New World style hit our shelves in the … Continue reading
Posted in Wine, Wine Tastings
Tagged Arrufiac, Chateau de Sabazan, Dr Jamie Goode, Dubosc 1, Gers Wines, Gros Manseng, Le Faite Wine, Les Vignes Retrouvees, Madiran, Manseng Noir Plaimont, Morenoa, Pacherenc du Vic-Bilh, Pedebernade 5, Petit Courbu, Pinenc, Plaimont Blending Masterclass, Plaimont Producteurs, Plaimont Tasting London 2018, Prephylloxera Vines, Saint Mont, Saint Mont "1871" Cuvee, Southwest France Wines, Tannat, Tardif Grape Variety Experiment, Westbury Communications
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Austria at the IOD
As with the Australia Day Tasting the other week, I’d not been to the annual Advantage Austria London tasting for a couple of years, but the 2018 event seemed to suggest a few of the newer, exciting, producers were attending alongside the … Continue reading
Posted in Austria, Austrian Wine, Neusiedlersee, Rust, Vienna, Wachau, Wiener Gemischter Satz, Wieninger, Wine Tastings
Tagged Advantage Austria Tasting, Arnold Holzer, Austria, Austrian Wine, Bernhard Ott, Blaufränkisch, Burgenland, Ebner-Ebenauer, Emmerich Knoll Wachau, Ernst Triebaumer, Eschenhof Holzer, Gerhard Kracher, Gruner Veltliner, Gunter & Regina Triebaumer, Herbert Tiebaumer, Leth Fels am Wagram, Marion Ebner, Martin Diwald, Neusiedlersee, Nikolaihof Wachau, Poysdorf, Roter Veltliner, Rust, Wagram, Weinhof Waldschutz, Weinviertel, Wiener Gemischter Satz, Wieninger Vienna
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The Power…and the Glory – Australia Day Tasting, London 2018
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
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Ozgundy 2016 (16 January 2018)
This is the time of year when London is awash with Burgundy Tastings as all the agents wheel out their portfolios for the newly bottled vintage, 2016 in this case. There is a lot of positive noise from those who … Continue reading
Our House (Taittinger)
Many of you will know that I have something of a thing for Grower Champagne. It comes from an interest in wines which express “place”, terroir wines, I suppose. But that doesn’t mean I ignore the so-called Grandes Marques. For … Continue reading
Posted in Champagne, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Tastings
Tagged Champagne, Champagne Cellar Tours, Champagne Tastings, Chateau de la Marquetterie, Comtes de Champagne 2006, Folies de la Marquetterie, Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger, Solent Cellar Tastings, Taittinger, Taittinger Prelude
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Eastern France Part 3 – Fritz Becker, Schweigen
The more geographically, or cartographically, inclined reader will immediately spot that Schweigen is not in France. In fact it is in Germany’s Pfalz region. So as I asked the other day in my introduction to this series of articles, what … Continue reading
Posted in German Wine, Wine, Wine Tastings, Wine Travel
Tagged Friedrich Becker, Fritz Becker, German Chardonnay, German Pinot Noir, Grüner Sylvaner Variety, Kalkgestein, Kalkmergel, Kammerberg GG, Pfalz Wine, Saint-Paul GG, Schweigen, Schweigen-Rechtenbach, Spätburgunder, Weingut Becker, Wissembourg
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David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 