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Category Archives: Wine
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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The Petnat Phenomenon – A Gateway to a Different Path
Back in January I wrote about Grower Champagne and what a phenomenon that seems to have become, and I’ve been looking for an opportunity to write about what I see as a complimentary sparkling wine style ever since. There is … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Natural Wine, Petnat, Sparkling Wine, Wine
Tagged Ancre Hill Triomphe, Balivet Bugey-Cerdon, Bodines Red Bulles, Bottle Fermented Wine Styles, Jan Mathias Klein Pandamonium, Jean Maupertuis Pink Bulles, Koppitsch Pretty Nats, L'Octavin Betty Bulles, La Garagista Grace & Favour Vermont, Méthode Ancestrale, Méthode Rurale, Moussamousettes, Papa Panda's Rising, Patrice Beguet Plouss Mousse, Pétillant Naturel, Petnats, Petr Koráb The Milkman, Réka Koncz Pretty Cold, Rennersistas In A Hell Mood, Sparkling Wine, The Hermit Ram Ancestral Müller Thurgau, Tillingham Wines PN, Tim Wildman Heavy Petting
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Recent Wines March 2021 (Part 2) #theglouthatbindsus
For Part 2 of March’s most interesting wines (I used to say “drunk at home”, but let’s face it, where else am I going to be drinking wine at the moment?) we start off with a little-known (in the UK, … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Natural Wine, Wine
Tagged "FRNC" Brash Higgins, Alsace Skin Contact Blend, Australian Cabernet Franc, Bourgoggne Aligoté L'Aligator, Brad Hickey, Brash Higgins Cabernet Franc, Brash Higgins McLaren Vale, Closerie des Moussis Arsac, Closerie des Moussis Haut-Médoc, Cul de Brey Domaine de la Tournelle, Czech Wine, Domaine de la Tournelle Arbois, Domaine des Queues Rouges Burgundy, Emmanuelle Milan, Equipo Navazos, Evelyne & Pascal Clairet, Isabelle Vantey, Jean-Yves Vantey Sampigny-lès-Maranges, Jura Red Blend, Jura Wine, La Bota de Florpower 99, Laurence Alias & Pascale Choime Winemakers, Lukas Van Loggerenberg Winemaker, Lukes van Loggerenberg "Breton", Mathieu Deiss, Moravian Wine, Natural Wine Bordeaux, Palomino Fino Table Wine, Petr Koráb Moravia, Recent Wines March 2021 (Pt 2), South African Cabernet Franc, South African Wine, The Milkman Petnat Petr Koráb, Un Instant Sur Terre, Vignoble du Rêveur Bennwihr
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Recent Wines March 2021 (Part 1) #theglouthatbindsus
I’m writing this as Easter approaches for us in our part of the world, and a quarter of the year has almost gone…and where? Of all the deprivations of this Lockdown situation, being unable to travel to see family, both … Continue reading
Posted in Alsace, Artisan Wines, Austrian Wine, Hungarian Wine, Jura, Natural Wine, Rhone, Swiss Wine, Wiener Gemischter Satz, Wine
Tagged Alsace Riesling, Ancre Hill Monmouth Wales, Ancre Hill Sparkling Rosé, André Ostertag, Annamária Réka-Koncz Hungary, Arthur Ostertag, Bechtel Weine Eglisau, Côte-Rôtie 2004 Stéphane Ogier, Crémant du Jura Pignier, Deutschschweiz, Domaine Ostertag Epfig, Domaine Pignier Montaigu Jura, Domaine Stéphane Ogier Ampuis, Federweiss, Jutta Ambrositsch Glockenturm 2016, Jutta Ambrositsch Vienna, Mathias Bechtel, Muenchberg Grand Cru, Mukenthal Grinzinger Gemischter Satz, Quite 2018 Veronica Ortega, Réka-Koncz A Change of Heart Red Wine, Recent Wines March 2021 (Pt1), Veronica Ortega Mencia Bierzo, Veronica Ortega Valtuille de Abajo, Welsh Sparkling Wine, Welsh Wine, Wines of Eastern Hungary
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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
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
Field Blends and Gemischter Satz – Why Should we Get to Know Them?
Gemischter Satz, a wine that brings joy to my soul. Back in 2016 the UK wine trade magazine The Drinks Business asked whether Gemischter Satz will be the next big thing. Well, it hasn’t quite worked out that way but … Continue reading
Posted in Alsace, Artisan Wines, Austrian Wine, Vienna, Viticulture, Wiener Gemischter Satz, Wieninger, Wine, Wine Travel
Tagged Bisamberg, Deiss Alsace, Field Blends, Fritz Wieninger, Gemischter Satz, Jutta Ambrositsch, Nussberg, Sievering, Wiener Gemischter Satz, Wine and Culture - Vienna
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Recent Wines February 2021 (Part 2) #theglouthatbindsus
February Part 2 begins with the entry level Champagne from a now established star Grower before heading to a part of the Loire, Cheverny, I’ve not now been to for too long. We have another wein from Max Sein, a … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Natural Wine, Wine
Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Benoît Badoz Poligny Jura, Champagne Bérêche Brut Réserve, Cheverny, Fine New Zealand Pinot Noir, Grundstein Blauer Portugieser, Hervé Villemade Cheverny Rouge, Hiro Kusuda, IGT Alpi Retiche, Julia Nather & Josef Schenter, Kusuda Martinborough Pinot Noir 2011, Kusuda New Zealand, Mamete Prevostini Valtellina, Max Sein Les Autochtones, Max Sein Wein Franken, Nebbiolo Botonero Mamete Prevostini, Nibiru Kamptal, Pinot Gamay Blend Loire, Recent Wines February 2021 (Pt 2), Vin Jaune Benoît Badoz 2005
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Recent Wines February 2021 (Part 1) #theglouthatbindsus
February yields just fourteen wines. Partly, I guess, as it’s a shorter month and partly because we drank some wines I wrote about in early winter. We will still go for two parts, seven wines in each. In Part One … Continue reading
Posted in Austrian Wine, Burgundy, Italian Wine, Natural Wine, Neusiedlersee, Piemonte, Savoie Wine, Spanish Wine, Wine
Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, "68" Cascina Tavijn, Bourgogne Chitry, Burgenland, Côtillon des Dames 2015, Clare Valley South Australia, De Moor, Fredi Torres and Mark Lecha, Gut Oggau Joschuari 2011, Jean-Yves Péron Conflans, Jeffrey Grosset, Nadia Verrua, Piemonte, Priorat, Priorat Classic 2018 Lectores Vini, Recent Wines February 2021 (Pt 1), Renner Intergalactic, Rennersistas, Savoie, Springvale Riesling 2010, Watervale Riesling, Weingut Renner Gols
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David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 