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Category Archives: Wine
Meeting António Maçanita
There was a buzz being created around the Azores even before Sarah Ahmed wrote a revealing article in Decanter last summer, and that buzz has without doubt been created largely by one man, António Maçanita, the founder (with Paulo Machado) … Continue reading
Posted in Azores, Portuguese wine, UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Volcanic Wines, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged A Proibida, António Maçanita, Arinto dos Açores, Azores, Azores Wine Company, Hybrid Vines Wines, Isabella Grape Variety, Pico Island, Pico Wines, Red Squirrel Wines, Terrantez do Pico, Tinto Vulcanico, Verdelho Pico DO, Vitis Labrusca, Volcanic Wines
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London Wine Fair 2018 Part 2 – Drinks Britannia and the Trading Floor
In Part 1 of my review of the 2018 London Wine Fair I concentrated on the small importers in the Esoterica area, where you could find perhaps the real excitement of the event. If you haven’t already read Part 1, you can catch … Continue reading
Posted in English Wine, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Festivals, Wine Merchants
Tagged Abbazia di Novacella, Astrum Wines, Bolney Estate, Craft Cider, Drinks Britannia, London Wine Fair 2018, Natural Cider, Natural Cyder, Nyetimber, Nyetimber Tillington 2013, Praepositus wines, Starvecrow Cider, Tavignano
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London Wine Fair 2018 Part 1 – Esoterica
It’s that time of year when the London Wine Fair comes to London’s Olympia. For anyone who has never been, it’s an enormous three day event, boasting 14,000 wines from 40 countries. The vast “trading floor” has many gems among the diaspora … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Czech Wine, Natural Wine, Swiss Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Festivals, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged 266 Wines, Alpine Wines, Basket Press Wines, Czech Wine, Eclectic Wines, Greek Wine, H2Vin, Indigo Wine, London Wine Fair 2018, Maltby & Greek, Modal Wines, Red Squirrel Wine, Southern Wine Roads, Swiss Wines, The Knotted Vine
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Canada House
Canada House, not a dance music sub-genre, although a few readers might not be too surprised if I went off on a different subject, but the venue yesterday for the Taste Canada 2018 event, organised wonderfully well by Westbury Communications. It featured thirty-seven … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Tastings
Tagged Annapolis Valley Nova Scotia, British Columbia Wine, Canadian Icewine, Canadian Wine, CheckMate Artisanal Winery, Domaine Neige Québec, Gaspereau Valley Nova Scotia, Haywire wines, Hidden Bench Estate Winery, Ice Cider, Ice Cidre, Icewine, Inniskillin Wines, LaStella Winery, Le Vieux Pin Okanagan, Lightfoot & Wolfville Vineyards, Liquidity Wines, Luckett Vineyards, Martin's Lane winery, Megalomaniac Wines, Mission Hill, Niagara Peninsula, Norman Hardie Winery, Nova Scotia Wine, Okanagan Crush Pad, Okanagan Valley, Ontario Wine, Painted Rock Estate, Pillitteri Estate Winery, Poplar Grove Okanagan, Prince Edward County VQA, Severine Pinte, Taste of Canada 2018, Tidal Bay Nova Scotia
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Vegan Wine…What?
Yes, Vegan Wine. As my family is vegan, I eat a largely plant-based diet, although the fundamentalists among them are still horrified that I am prone to lapses when out at wine functions, or in desperate need of cheap chocolate. … Continue reading
Bursting Bubbles – Robert Walters, and Some Thoughts on the Grower Champagne Philosophy
You will recall that I made Champagne by Peter Liem my wine book of last year. That expertly written book which puts terroir at its heart was the outstanding work on wine, in my view, in the whole of 2017. Bursting Bubbles by Australian author Robert Walters follows a similar … Continue reading
Posted in Champagne, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine Books, Wine Writing
Tagged Anselme Selosse, Bursting Bubbles, Cedric Bouchard, Champagne, Champagne Books, Champagne Grower, Champagne Philosophy, Champagne Terroir, Grower Champagne, Jerome Prevost, Peter Liem Champagne, Robert Walters, Wine writing
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David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 