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Category Archives: Wine Tastings
Raw Wine 2017 – Part 1
In the run up to last weekend there was palpable excitement in the London wine fraternity, and doubtless beyond. Raw Wine was in town. Raw, founded and run by Isabelle Legeron MW, is one of the two big annual “natural … Continue reading
Posted in Austrian Wine, biodynamic wine, Canadian Wine, Natural Wine, Neusiedlersee, Swiss Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Festivals, Wine Tastings
Tagged Albert Mathier, Alexander Koppitsch, Burgenland, Gut Oggau, Meinklang, Okanagan Crush Pad, RAW Wine Fair, Rennersistas, Scholium Project, Somlo
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Saint-Chinian – Not All Schist!
I was at the Saint-Chinian Tasting at the Maison de la Région Occitanie in London’s Cavendish Square this week. It was quite a small tasting, just fourteen producers present, with a few of the names I know being absent. I … Continue reading
Posted in Languedoc-Roussillon, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Tastings
Tagged Ch Bousquette, Ch du Prieuré des Morgues, Ch La Dournie, Dom Boissezon Guiraud, Dom des Aspes, Dom Les Eminades, Domaine de Pech Ménel, Domaine des Jougla, Languedoc Wines, Maison de la Region Occitanie, Mas Champart, Saint-Chinian, St-Chinian, Vignoble Belot, Vins Virtuoses de Saint-Chinian
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A Lavaux Affair
Let’s face it, if you are the kind of wine lover who reads a wine blog you are probably an inveterate romantic who adores being in the vineyards as much as drinking the wine. Something in that bucolic scenery gets … Continue reading
Posted in Swiss Wine, UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Wine, Wine Tastings, Wine Travel
Tagged Antoine Bovard, Chasselas, Domaine d'Aucret, Domaine de la Maison Blanche, J-F Neyroud-Fonjallaz, Lavaux, Lavaux Vinorama, Patrick Fonjallaz, Plant Robert, Rivaz, St-Saphorin, Swiss Vineyards, Swiss Wine, Tasting Swiss Wines, Vaud Wine
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Viñateros – A Spanish Wine Revolution
It has been, unusually, two weeks since I’ve posted an article. This has largely been down to my trip to Switzerland, which I’ll be writing about soon. I apologise if you therefore end up being bombarded with articles this week. … Continue reading
Posted in Spanish Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Tastings
Tagged 4 Kilos Mallorca, Abel Mendoza Rioja, Celler Pardas, Comando G, Daniel Landi, Envinate, Equipo Navazos, Fedellos do Couto, Loxarel Penedes, Nin-Ortiz Priorat, Pagos de Villavendimia, Rafael Palacios, Remelluri Blanco 2013, Spanish Wine, Spanish Wine Tasting, Suertes del Marqués, Tate Modern Wine Tastings, Telmo Rodrigues, Tenerife Wine, Terroir Al Limit, Vinateros, Wines of Spain, Zarate
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Great Exhibitionists
The Winemakers Club and Carte Blanche Wines got together again at Farringdon Street Vaults for their Winter Portfolio Tasting. Readers of this Blog will know Winemakers very well. Their philosophy is finely stated in the words of founder/owner John Baum: … Continue reading
Posted in biodynamic wine, Hungarian Wine, Languedoc-Roussillon, Loire, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged Austrian Wine, Burgenland Wine, Carte Blanche Wines, Christophe Muret, Domaine de L'Horizon Calce, Domaine des Marnes Blanches Jura, Domaine du Mortier, Empriente de Temps, Fabien Jouves, Feudo dei Sanseverino Calabria, Franken Wine, Gino Pedrotti, Grange de L'Oncle Charles, Great Exhibition Tasting, Hegyikalo Eger Hungary, Il Guercio, Jerome Francois, Karim Vionnet Beaujolais, Kiral Yudvar Tokaj, Maestro Terenzio Passito, Mas del Périé Cahors, Meinklang, Meinklang Graupert, Meinklang Konkret, Mouthes le Bihan Duras, Nosiola, Ostheim Alsace Wine, Pamhagen Austria, Riecine, Sean O'Callaghan, Shobbrook Giallo, Shobbrook Seppeltsfield, Sittweg Alsace, Stefan Vetter Franken, Tom Shobbrook, Tommy Field, Tommy Ruff, Trentino Vino Santo, Winemakers Club
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I Met a Traveller from an Antique Land
…My name is Ozburgundian, Winemaker of Winemakers, Look on my Wines, ye Mighty, and despair! Okay, not quite what Shelley had in mind, but the mighty Ozgundians were in town again yesterday, this time joined by another Australian washed up … Continue reading
Posted in Burgundy, Fine Wine, Rhone, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Tastings
Tagged Aligoté, Andrew Nielsen, Burgundy 2015, Dagon Clan, Dealu Mare Wine, Emma Nielsen, Fixin Les Arvelets, Haisma Bonnes Mares, Haisma Cornas 2015, Haisma Romania, Jane Eyre Wines, Jérémy Recchione, Le Grappin, Mark Haisma, Mark Haisma Ardeche, The Ozgundians, Vincent Paris, Vinoteca Soho Tasting, Wanderlust Wines
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Beyond the Classics
January sees the tasting circuit back in full swing after the Winter Solstice, so much so that there were at least four tastings yesterday which I would have liked to have gone to. I chose the tasting of the French Vigneron … Continue reading
Posted in Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Tastings
Tagged Alexandre Roux, Anne de Lanversin, Ariege Wine, Beyond the Classics Tasting, Ch de Peyrel Bergerac/Rosette, Champagne Fresne Ducret, Chateau La Haye Le Cedre, Chateau Leroy-Beauval Bordeaux, Christian Voeux, Corsican Wine, Domaine de la Font des Peres Bandol, Domaine Derame Muscadet, Domaine du Deffends Var, Domaine L'Amauve Seguret, Domaine Leccia, Domaine Py Corbieres, Dominik Benz, Gros Plant, Mas Oncle Ernest Ventoux, Patrimonio, The Vinyl Factory, Vigneron Independant
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David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 