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Category Archives: Wine
Return to the Vaults Part 3 – Winemakers Club and Gergovie Wines
By splitting my article on the March 2017 Vaults Tasting into four parts, I hope I’m making it more manageable. If you really want to skip anything, it makes it easier, but to do so would be a mistake. I … Continue reading
Posted in Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged Aleks Klinec Ortodox, Domaine des Hauts Baigneux, Domaine des Marnes Blanches, Domaine Julien Mayer, Domaine Julien Meyer, Gergovie Wines, Hegyi-Kalo Eger, Hegyi-Kalo Kekfrankos, Hegyikalo, Jerome Jouret Ardèche, Karim Vionnet, Kiralyudvar Furmint, Klinec Medana 1 Classe 2006, La Grande Ourse, La Grange de L'Oncle Charles, La Vigne du Perron Bugey, Le Petit Domaine de Gimios, Marie Lavaysse, Muller-Thurgau, Nicolas Grosbois, Ostheim, Oszkar Maurer Serbia, Pascal Chalon Cotes du Rhone, Patrick Meyer, Petite Ourse, Philippe Mesnier, Pierre Lavaysse, Serbian Wine, Sittweg, Stefan Vetter Franken, Vaults Tasting, Vergé L'Ecart, Vergé Viré Macon, Winemakers Club
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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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Rolling Back More Swiss Wines
I am lucky to have friends in Geneva who appreciate wine, and whenever I’m there, they ply me all kinds of Swiss wines. Rather than internationally known superstar wines (the finest Swiss wines are only a little less expensive in … Continue reading
Posted in Swiss Wine, Wine
Tagged Bianco di Merlot Ticino, Cave de Genève, Caves Orsat Fendant, Dalai Lama Vineyard, Domaine Châbles Montreux, Domaine des Lolliets, Domaine du Centaure Dardagny, Escalier de la Dame, Humagne Rouge Yves Granges, Martial Neyroud, Petite Arvine Cédric Flaction, Sherpa Rouge, Swiss Gamay, Swiss Wine, Vins des Chevaliers, White Merlot, Zürcher Clevner
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David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 