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Category Archives: Wine Writing
Adventures on the Wine Route (Kermit Lynch) – Still Relevant Today
It’s now over a year since I last left the UK, and almost eighteen months since I stood in a vineyard. The craving for wine travel, within the context of realising how very lucky I am, of course, grows every … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Fine Wine, Natural Wine, Rhone, Viticulture, Wine, Wine Books, Wine Science, Wine Travel, Wine Writing
Tagged Adventures on the Wine Route, Against Big Wines, Classic Wine Writing, Drilling for Wine, Filtering Wine, Gérard Chave, Kermit Lynch, Natural Wine Genesis, Robin Yapp, Wine Book Review, Wine Travel
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Wines of the Rhône by Matt Walls – Book Review
Even most readers who know me reasonably well might be unaware that The Rhône was my first real passion in wine. I didn’t get to visit the north for a few years, but by the time I hit Ampuis in … Continue reading
Wine and Cheese Anyone? Reviewing Oz Clarke’s English Wine with Ned Palmer’s A Cheesemonger’s History of the British Isles
This week you get two book reviews in one article and, I think for the first time, one of them isn’t about wine. Tempted as I’ve been in the past to review books on my other passion, music, I have … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, English Wine, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine Books, Wine Writing
Tagged A Cheesemonger's History of the British Isles, Books on English & Welsh Wine, British and Irish Cheeses, British Artisan Cheeses, Cheese Books, Cheese in History, English and Welsh Wine, English Sparkling Wine, Ned Palmer, Oz Clarke English Wine, Reading About Wine, Wine Book Reviews
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Review of the Year 2020
Well indeed, what a year 2020 has been! Like no other, for sure. But although everyone involved in the world of wine has experienced life in different ways, wine is still there, and has given us all immense pleasure, a … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Natural Wine, Review of the Year, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Books, Wine Writing
Tagged Anne Krebiehl Wines of Germany, Jamie Goode, Littlewine, Luis Gutiérrez, Réka Koncz, Review of 2020, Sportsman Seasalter, The Goode Wine Guide (2020), Trink Magazine, Veronica Ortega Bierzo, Wild Flor Hove, Wine in Lockdown, Wine Zoom Phenomena, Wines of the Year
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The Goode Wine Guide (Review)
I’m hoping I’m not too late here to recommend a great little stocking filler for the wine obsessive in your life. This came out in September but my Lockdown reading pile has grown somewhat tall, and I’ve only just read … Continue reading
What is it with German Wine?
As a wine lover I feel fairly split between the major wine producing nations of Europe. I have an enduring love of Italian wines, with a pendulum swinging every few years between Tuscany and Piemonte. I’ve said emphatically this year … Continue reading
Posted in German Wine, Wine, Wine Writing
Tagged Anne Krebiehl MW, German Book List, German Dry Wines, German Technology versus Romanticism, German Wine, Jan Matthias Klein Staffelter Hof, Paula Redes Sidore, Place of German Natural Wine, Revolution in German Wine, The Giesenheim Gamble, Trink Magazine, TRINKTalks, Valerie Kathawala
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Skelton’s “The Wines of Great Britain” and some thoughts on English Wine
This article began its gestation as a book review. I recently read another edition from the Infinite Ideas Classic Wine Library, of which I have reviewed two further books in just this past year (on Sake and Japanese Wines by … Continue reading
Posted in English Wine, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine Books, Wine Writing
Tagged Adrian Pike, Ancre Hill Estate, Ben Walgate, Biodynamics and UK Wines, Black Chalk, English Petnat, English Riesling, English Sparkling Wine, English Wine and Brexit, English Wine Post-Coronavirus, English Wine's Future, Grape Varieties in England and Wales, Infinite Ideas Classic Wine Library, Jacob Leadley, Plumpton College Wine Centre, Sephen Skelton MW, Skin Contact Wine in Britain, The Wines of Great Britain (book review), Tillingham Wines, Tim Phillips, Westwell Wines
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