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Category Archives: Wine
Jurable or Merely Fashionable?
When I first visited Jura in the 1980s only a few UK wine professionals seemed to have been there, and only one or two were extolling the virtues of the wines, principally the Vin Jaunes, from this attractive region. This … Continue reading
Posted in Jura, Wine, Wine Tastings
Tagged André & Mireille Tissot, Arbois, Bénédicte Tissot, De Toute Beauté Nature, Domaine A&M Tissot, Emmanuel Houillon, Ganevat Vin Jaune, J-F Ganevat, Jacques Puffeney, Jura Wine, Pierre Overnoy, Ploussard, Poulsard, Pupillin, Quality Chop House, Savagnin, Stephane Tissot, Vin de Paille, Vin Jaune, Wink Lorch Jura Wine book
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Natural Resistance
Being a little beyond my youth now, I grew up in a world without home computing and without mobile phones. I also grew up in a world without organic wine. That’s not quite true. Plenty of producers avoided chemical applications … Continue reading
Posted in Italian Wine, Natural Wine, Piemonte, Wine, Wine and Health
Tagged Cascina degli Ulivi, Emanuel Giboulot, Flavescence Dorée, Isabelle Legeron's Natural Wine, Jonathan Nossiter, Monty Waldin, Natural Resistance, Natural Wine, Organic Wine, Pesticides, Stefano Bellotti, Synthetic Vine Treatments, Thibault Liger-Belair
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Sicily’s Eastern Promise
I fell in love with Sicily a long time ago, not as you might imagine by visiting the island, but after reading a book. John Julius Norwich’s “The Normans in Sicily” is the story of how the Norman House of … Continue reading
Posted in Italian Wine, Sicily, Wine
Tagged Anna Martens, Arianna Occhipinti, Benanti, Carricante, Cerasuolo di Vittoria, COS, Etna, Faro, Frank Cornelissen, Frappato, Girolamo Russo, Nerello Mascalese, Palari, Palmento, Passopisciaro, Pietradolce, Robert Camuto, Salvo Foti, Sicilian Wine, Sicily, Terre Nere, Vino di Anna
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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
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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
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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
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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 Wine, Sparkling Wine
Tagged Altesse, Bugey, Bugey-Cerdon, Cécile Balivet, Franck Peillot, Maison Angelot, Méthode Ancestrale, Mondeuse, Montagnieu, Vincent Balivet
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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
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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
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David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 