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Tag Archives: Alliance Wine
Cork & Cask Winter Wine Fair 2025, Part 3 (Alliance Sevslo and Indigo)
The third and final part of my coverage of Cork & Cask’s mammoth Winter Wine Fair 2025 covers three wine agencies/importers. Two are based in England, being Alliance Wine and Indigo Wine, and sandwiched between them one from Glasgow, namely … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Festivals, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged Alliance Wine, Antonio Maçanita Madeira, Artisans Vignerons de Naoussa Greece, Basque Wine, Bodegas Altolandon, Bodegas las Orcas Rioja Alavesa, Bodegas Ximenez-Spinola, Cork & Cask, Cork & Cask Winter Wine Fair 2025, Delaforce LBV 2018, Domaine de la Sorbière Beaujolais, Domaine Guion Bourgeuil, Eric Texier, Gaintza Txacolina Getariako, Greek Wine, Indigo Wine, Jacques Juillard Vigneron, Madeira Table Wine, Maison Crochet Lorraine, Sebastien Brunet Vouvray, Sevslo Glasgow, Spanish Wine, Wine
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Cork & Cask Summer Wine Fair 2025 (Part 2) – Uncharted, Alliance, Naughton Cider and some beer
The second part of my coverage of the Cork & Cask Summer Fair begins with a selection from Uncharted Wines. This has a focus mostly on Westwell Wines from Kent (not exclusively) because, well, they are so good! Second up, … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Cider, Artisan Wines, Beer, Champagne, Cider, English Wine, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Festivals, Wine Merchants, Wine Shops, Wine Tastings
Tagged Adrian Pike Westwell Wines, Alliance Wine, August Kesseler Daily August 2024 Rheingau, Baglio Gibellina Frappato 2023, Baglio Gibellina Sicily, Cami del Drac Lledoner Pelut VV 2024, Campervan Brewery Leith, Campervan Puffin Isles Gose, Champagne Delouvin Meunier Perpetuel, Champagne Method Cider, Champagne Paul Clouet Selection, Cork & Cask Summer Fair 2025 (Pt 2), Domaine Chatzivariti Paiko PGI Greece, Edinburgh Craft Beer, Espera Alcobaça Portugal, Espera Curtimenta 2023, Fife Cider, Futtle Brewery Bowhouse Fife, Futtle Organic Wheat Beer with Bay, Galia Durant Illustrations, German Wine, Greek Wine, Lledoner Pelut, Mosaic White Domaine Chatzivariti, Naughton Brut Vintage 2021, Naughton Cider Company, Naughton Le Clos 2020, Naughton Overture, Peter Crawford Naughton Cider, Pilot Brewery Leith, Pilot Rosé Sour, Portuguese wine, Rheingau Wine, Scottish Cider, Sicilian Wine, Terres Fideles Alliance Wine, Uncharted Wines, Vault City Blood Orange Radler, Vault City Brewery Portobello, Westwell Little Bit, Westwell Pelegrim NV, Westwell Pinot Noir 2023, Westwell Unnaturally Petulant Pink 2023, Westwell Village Chardonnay 2023, Westwell Wines Kent
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Recent Wines June 2020 (Part 2)
No diversions this time, straight into the second part of June’s “at home” selection. The first wine is another old school classic but the rest are all contemporary thrillers…to a varying degree, but they all thrill. Two from Alsace, one … Continue reading
Posted in Alsace, Artisan Wines, Czech Wine, English Wine, Natural Wine, Spanish Wine, Wine
Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Alliance Wine, Alsace Pinot Noir Jean-Pierre Rietsch, Basket Press Wines, Ben Walgate, Benevolent Neglect Counoise 2018, Californian Counoise, Canary Islands Wine, Czech Wine, Dynamic Vines, English Ortega, English Qvevri Wine, Envinate Benjé Blanco 2018, Equipo Navazos, Gut Oggau Winifred Rosé, Herr Gewürz 2019 Krasna Hora, Indigo Wines, Krasna Hora, La Bota de Florpower Manzanilla 82, Les Caves de Pyrene, Mittelbergheim Pinot Noir, Moravian Wine, Muré Riesling Vorbourg 2004, Nekter Wines, Palomino Listán Blanco, Recent Wines June 2020 (Part 2), Rosé from Burgenland, Tenerife Wine, Tillingham Wines Qvevri Artego 2017, Vintage Manzanilla, Wines Under the Bonnet
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Crafty Little Tasting
Crafty Little Tasting was the rather nice name Alliance Wine gave to a tasting of their more artisan winemakers, which took place at Carousel, on Blandford Street (London) on Tuesday. More than 170 wines were on show, and I managed to … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged Abel Mendoza Rioja, Achinos Wine, Alliance Wine, Arribes del Duero, Berthet-Bondet Jura, Bizios Nemea, Bodegas El Lagarto, Cantina Merano Lagrein, Cantine Rallo Grillo, Casal de Arman Ribeira, Cellar del Roure Catalonia, Chateau-Chalon, Clement Klur Katzenthal Alsace, Crafty Little Wine Tasting, Domaine Bliskowice Poland, Domaine de Colette, Domaine de la Couvette, Domaine de la Noblaie Chinon, Domaine des Baumards Quarts de Chaume, Drift Farm, Equipo Navazos, Florpower Bota 44, Fumin, Gulfi Sicily, I Think Manzanilla En Rama, Jean Perrier Savoie, La Crotta di Vegneron, La Tour Melas, Manzanilla Bota 71, Manzanilla Pasada 59, Mas Cal Demoura, Mount Edward Central Otago, New Greek Wines, Olim Bauda, Oller del Mas Pla de Bages, Pazo de Senorans, Picapoll Negre, Polish Wine, Raats Family MR de Compostella, Riecine Chianti, Riecine Sebastiano Passito, Ruby Luby, Santorini Assyrtiko, Stella Bella Pink Muscat, T-Oinos, There are Still Mysteries Pinot Noir, Tinos Wines, Val d'Aosta Wine, Vassaltis Santorini, Venturi Baldini Lambrusco, Year of the Rooster Rosé
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David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 