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Recent Wines December 2024 (Part 1) #theglouthatbindsus
Does anyone actually remember December 2024? With the new year now upon us, 1st December, when I drank the first wine here, seems a very long time ago. That wine was a supermarket Refosco from the Veneto. Here in Part … Continue reading
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Newcomer Wines at Montrose, Edinburgh (3 July ’24)
I have yet to dine at Timberyard’s new outpost in Edinburgh, Montrose, doubtless the cause being all our house moving escapades, but I did get to visit on Wednesday for a tasting with Peter Honegger from Newcomer Wines. I’ve known … Continue reading
Posted in Alsace, Artisan Wines, Austria, Austrian Wine, Beaujolais, biodynamic wine, Burgundy, Hungarian Wine, Languedoc-Roussillon, Loire, Natural Wine, Wachau, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged Agly Valley, Andrew and Emma Nielsen, Austrian Wine, Domaine Rieffel Pinot Noir Nature, Du Grappin Côte de Brouilly, Edinburgh Wine Tasting, Foradori, Franz Weninger Soprón, Hungarian Wine, Kékfrankos from Sopron Hungary, Le Grappin Hautes Côtes de Beaune, Loire Wine, Lucas Rieffel Mittelbergheim, Manzoni Grape Variety, Matassa Cuvée Marguerite, Muscadet de Sèvre et Maine, Natural Wine, Newcomer Wines at Montrose, Nikolaihof Grüner Veltliner, Nikolaihof Wachau, Northeast Italian Wine, Orthogneiss Domaine L'Ecu, Roussillon Wine, Trentino Alto-Adige Wine, Weninger Steiner 2017
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Real Wine Fair 2024 (Part 1)
Some readers might have wondered why I’ve been silent since my last article on 24 April. After a decorating blitz on our new home we finally moved in (after exactly a year of building work). Then our son came to … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Austrian Wine, Natural Wine, North American Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Festivals, Wine Tastings
Tagged Austrian Wine, Burgenland Wine, Carter Vineyard Pinot Noir, Ci Confonde Vermont Petnat, Durant Vineyard Chardonnay, Fleurine Wine and Cider Blend, Found Love La Garagista, Gora Bijela 2018, Gora Plava 2018/19, Kelley Fox Oregon, Koppitsch Abendrot, Koppitsch Aeon Weiss, Koppitsch Happy Anniversary Red Wine, Koppitsch Petnat, La Garagista Vermont, Les Caves de Pyrene, Luka Zeichmann Burgenland, Mirabai Pinot Noir, Native Love La Garagista, Nerthus 2021, Oregon Wine, Real Wine Fair 2024, Ujca Hendrik Red Wine, Vermont Wine, Weingut Koppitsch Burgenland, Whe Life Gives You Lemons
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Recent Wines January 2024 (Part 1) #theglouthatbindsus
We have a dozen wines from January, divided into two equal parts. Here in Part 1 there are wines from Austria’s Burgenland, NE Italy, Alsace, Eastern Switzerland, a new wine and a new producer to all of us from Czech … Continue reading
Posted in Alsace, Artisan Wines, Austrian Wine, Czech Wine, German Wine, Italian Wine, Mosel, Natural Wine, Neusiedlersee, Swiss Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies
Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Alsace Natural Wine, Alsace Wine, Austrian Wine, Bechtel Blauburgunder 2018, Bechtel Weine Blauburgunder 2018, Czech Natural Wine, Domaine Durrmann Andlau, Friuli Colli Orientali DOC, Gernot and Heike Heinrich Gols, Gols Burgenland Natural Wine, Heinrich Graue Freyheit 2020, Matthias Bechtel Eglisau Zürich, Mira Nestarecová Cabernet Franc 2022, Moravian Wine, Natural Wine, Natural Wine Dry Gewurztraminer, Neusiedlersee, Recent Wines January 2024 (Pt 1), Refosco, Rita and Rudolf Trossen Mosel, Schieferstern Purus 2016, Specogna Refosco 2019 Friuli, Swiss Wine, Trossen Schieferstern Purus 2016, Velké Bilovice Wine Village, Wine from NE Italy, Yann Durrmann Andlau, Zegwur Cuvée Nature 2022 Durrmann
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Recent Wines July 2023 (Part 2) #theglouthatbindsus
July has been a month for hoovering up a few wines I’ve written about before, so again there are only five wines to tell you about in Part 2. I should explain that I don’t see myself as a wine … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Beaujolais, Czech Wine, Georgian Wine, Natural Wine, Neusiedlersee, Wine, Wine Agencies
Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Alex and Maria Koppitsch, Austrian Wine, Balagny Fleurie En Remont 2019, Beaujolais, Burgenland, Corsican Rosé, Czech Wine, Fleurie, Georgian Wine, Julie Balagny, Kakheti Orange Wine, Koppitsch Neusiedl am See, Koppitsch Petnat Pretty Nuts 2021, Korab Carbonic for All, Natural Wine, Nika Winery Ma Fille 2019, Petr Korab Moravia, Qvevri Wine, Recent Wines July 2023 Pt2, Rkatsitelli and Mtsvane blend, Sciaccarellu Corsica, Waitrose Loved & Found Wines
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Recent Wines July 2023 (Part 1) #theglouthatbindsus
We begin the first selection from the wines we drank at home in July with a new (to me) wine from a favourite producer in Hungary. Next up, a classic Bugey-Cerdon, then a classic Saar wine but from the region’s … Continue reading
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Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Alsace Wine, André Durrmann Andlau, Annamária Réka-Koncz Hungary, Austrian Wine, Bugey Wine, Bugey-Cerdon, Burgenland Wine, Catherine & Patrick Bottex Bugey, Durrmann Rosé Nature 2021, German Wine, Hofgut Falkenstein Saar, Hungarian Wine, Joiseph Piroska 2021, Luka Zeichmann Joiseph, Niedermenniger Herrenberg "Onkel Peter" 2020, Recent Wines July 2023 (Pt 1), Reka-Koncz Disorder #4 2021, Saar Wine, Yann Durrmann Andlau
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Koppitsch (Producer Profile)
Looking back, it was at Raw Wine in 2017 when I first met Alex and Maria Koppitsch. Their wines were lovely, and equally as important, to me at least, so were its makers. I found it inconceivable that they didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Austrian Wine, biodynamic wine, Natural Wine, Neusiedlersee, Wine, Wine Agencies
Tagged A Quite Soft Light 2019 Koppitsch, Abendrot 2021, Alex and Maria Koppitsch, Alex Koppitsch Winemaker, Austrian Natural Wine, Austrian Petnat, Austrian Wine, Homok, Koppitsch Burgenland, Koppitsch Rét, Koppitsch Rosza, Neusiedl am See, Neusiedlersee, Perspective Wines, Roland Wines, Touch 2021
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David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 