Previous Posts
Top Posts & Pages
- Tourist Jura - A Brief Guide to Arbois and Beyond
- Recent Wines February 2026 (Part 2) #theglouthatbindsus
- The Great German Pinot Noir Tasting
- One Thousand Vines by Pascaline Lepeltier (book review)
- Clay Wine Fair 2026 (Part 1)
- New Wine Leaders 1 - Christina Rasmussen
- Noble Rot Book - Wine From Another Galaxy (Review)
- Timberyard Spring Tasting 2025 Part 3 - Element Wines, David Morris/Mountain People Wines and more
- Clay Wine Fair 2025 (Part 2)
- Peter Hall - Breaky Bottom (1943 - 2025)
Category Archives: Wine
Oddities #10
Yesterday’s Oddities Lunch at Rochelle Canteen was a landmark of sorts, our tenth in a line of exciting events which take place every two months. Over those months we’ve drunk around 150 bottles of so-called oddities, ranging from wines some … Continue reading
Posted in Oddities lunches, Wine, Wine Tastings
Tagged Bali Wine, Castell d'Encus, Clos Clare, Combe Trousseau, Deiss, Domaine des Marnes Blanches, Don Chisciotte, Dry Erbaluce, Fenestra Lodi Port, Forcallà, Golan Heights Winery, Graubunden Wine, Grisons Wine, Hatten Wines Tunjung, Jan Domenic Luzi, Marionnet Provinage, Meinklang Konkret, Namibia Wine, Neuras Shiraz, Oddities, Passopisciaro 2008, Potesta, Raboso, Rafael Cambra, Rochelle Canteen, Sprecher Von Bernegg, Stolpman Vineyards, Uniqato Rubin Bulgaria, Vinochisti E3, Yarden, Zampaglione
5 Comments
Sweaty Gym Shoes on Hot Tarmac
The Tasting Note as a form of wine critique is not new. It was around long before Michael Broadbent first published his detailed observations. He reputedly has over 90,000 of them in his famous notebooks. But Broadbent certainly established this concise … Continue reading
Posted in Wine, Wine Writing
Tagged Future of Wine Writing, Tasting Note, Tasting Terms, Wine Blog, Wine Tasting, Wine writing
3 Comments
Video Killed the Radio Star
The New Year is a good time to reflect, a good time for manifestos too. At the back end of 2015 there seemed to be a lot of talk on two topics. First, we saw some negativity towards wine bloggers … Continue reading
Posted in Wine, Wine Writing
Tagged Wine Blogging, Wine Blogs, Wine Consumers, Wine on Social Media, Wine on the Internet, Wine writing
1 Comment
Bugey Wonderland
I remember a very long time ago playing a game when travelling around France. It involved trying wines which back then had almost never made their way over to the UK. Entraygues-et-du-Fel, Crépy, Irouléguy, Ripaille, Saint-Pourçain or Aprémont, for example. … Continue reading
Posted in Sparkling Wine, Wine
Tagged Altesse, Bugey, Bugey-Cerdon, Cécile Balivet, Franck Peillot, Maison Angelot, Méthode Ancestrale, Mondeuse, Montagnieu, Vincent Balivet
8 Comments
Chop Chop – Post Haisma/Le Grappin Lunch
Nine winoholics, or at least that’s how one sometimes feels in failing to follow the “Dry January” dictat, had a table booked at Quality Chop House on Farringdon Road for a post-Vinoteca tasting lunch (it is work, you know). As … Continue reading
Posted in Dining, Fine Wine, Wine, Wine and Food
Tagged Agrapart 7 Crus, Castel d'Encus, Hudelot-Baillet, J-P Brun Cote Rotie, Lanson Noble Cuvee, Le Cupole, Leitz Rudesheimer Berg Roseneck, Mullineux Straw Wine, Musar 1996, Quality Chop House, Riverby Noble Riesling, Trinoro, Vina Real 1975, Zind-Humbrecht Clos Hauserer
Leave a comment
Off to See the Wizards of Oz(gundy)
It’s that time of year again, and despite telling you in my last post that I wasn’t going to join the wall to wall wallpaper of 2014 Burgundy Primeurs Week, you know that when it comes to the annual Vinoteca … Continue reading
And Now For Something…
I rarely write about the wines I drink at home, but this week social media has been awash with one thing, Burgundy en primeur. Well, that’s not entirely true. Those lucky wine writers big enough to be invited to the … Continue reading
Posted in Austrian Wine, Jura, Natural Wine, Wiener Gemischter Satz, Wieninger, Wine, Wine Tastings
Tagged Arbois, Arbois Pinot Noir, Christoph Edelbauer, Domaine des Bodines, Domaine Ratapoil, Etna Rosso, France Gonzalvez, Jura, Maximin Grünhauser Sekt, Nußberg, Nussberg, Raphael Monnier, Romeo del Castello, Steve Slatcher, Time Flows, Vignaioli Contra Soarda, Wiener Gemischter Satz, Wieninger, Winenous, Zweigelt
Leave a comment
New Glasses – Should’ve Gone to Spec Savers
You’d have thought that the readers of the Daily Telegraph were as au fait as anyone with the appropriate stemware for Champagne. In an article on 27 December written by Camilla Turner, the author recommended flutes over the bad old coupe. That … Continue reading
Posted in Wine, Wine and Food, Wine Glasses, Wine Science
Tagged Beer Anorak Beer Glass, Beer Glasses, Camilla Turner Article, Champagne Coupe, Champagne Flute, Champagne Glasses, Champagne Tulip, Champagne with food, Daniel Primack, Gérard Liger-Belair, Riedel, Wine Glasses, Winerackd, Zalto, Zalto Universal
7 Comments
Happy New 2016!
This is the time when Bloggers habitually look back on the highlights of the year just gone, perhaps sprinkle a few resolutions, and above all single out the best of their festive drinking. I’ve had a very odd festive season … Continue reading
Bringing Sparkle to Christmas
The chances are that if you are reading this Blog you read a fair bit about wine, and if you do you have probably read something in the past few weeks about English sparkling wine. You may even have drunk … Continue reading
David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 