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The Christmas Popup You Mustn’t Miss (Basket Press Wines on Hackney Road)
I don’t know if you are like me but I love browsing. Record shops, book shops and yes, wine shops. I find it remarkably difficult to enter one of these establishments and to leave without a purchase. But aside from … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Christmas and Wine, Czech Wine, Hungarian Wine, Natural Wine, Slovakian Wine, Slovenian Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Shops
Tagged Basket Press Wines Popup Shop, Central European Wine, Czech Cider, Czech Wine, December Wine Popup, Jiri Majerik, Max Sein Franken, Reka-Koncz Hungary, Slovakian Wine, Wine Christmas Popup, Wine on Hackney Road, Zainab Majerikova
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Recent Wines September 2020 (Part 1) #the glouthatbindsus
The usual format again, we have here eight wines consumed, in fact relished, at home during the first part of September. Actually, one of these is a cider (Czech), so seven actual wines (ha!), which came from Alsace, Arbois, Alto-Piemonte, … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Cider, Natural Wine, Wine
Tagged #theglouthatbindsus, Aléas Bottes Rouge, Alsace Wine, Annamária Réka, Australian Wine, Austrian Wine, Beck-Hartweg Dambach-la-Ville, Carema Classico, Catalonian Sparkling Wine, Clos Lentiscus, Clos Lentiscus Reserva Familia, Czech Cider, Dave Geyer, Domaine des Bottes Rouge Arbois, Geyer Seaside Cabernet Franc, Geyer Wine, Hungarian Wine, Jean-Baptiste Menigoz, Jura Wine, Kekfrankos Hungary, Produttori Nebbiolo di Carema, Rakete Jutta Ambrositsch, Réka-Koncz A Change of Heart Red Wine, Recent Wines September 2020 (pt 1), Red Gemischter Satz, Sparkling Sumoll Blanc de Noirs, Utopia Cider Czechia, Vienna Wine
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Isolation Inspiration Part 2: A Glass With…More Moravia
We’ve had Zoom and we’ve had Crowdcast, but by far the most popular form of wine communication during the lockdown is the Instagram broadcast. Some are just random with no scheduled time or content, whilst other originators are trying to keep to a schedule or … Continue reading
Posted in Cider, Czech Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies
Tagged A Glass With... series, Alexandre Fraguin on Moravia, André Grape Variety, Basket Press Wines, Cabernet Moravia, Czech Cider, Czech Wines, Isolation Inspiration Part 2, Isolation Wine Broadcasts, Jaroslav Osicka, Moravian Wines, Osička PAN, Utopia Cider, Wine Education on the Web, Wine on the Internet, Zdenek Vykoukal
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Basket Press Wines at Plateau, Brighton (March 2020)
Oh how different the world seemed a couple of weeks ago. Basket Press Wines, the importer of primarily Czech wines, was down in Brighton to show some new wines and vintages to the staff of Plateau and Ten Green Bottles, … Continue reading
Posted in biodynamic wine, Cider, Czech Wine, Hungarian Wine, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged Annamária Réka, Basket Press Wines, Blauer Portugieser, Czech Cider, Czech Wine, Dva Duby, Hungarian Wine, Jaroslav Osicka, Királyleányka Grape Variety, Krasna Hora, Milerka, Modry Portugal, Ota Sevcik, Petr Korab, Réba-Koncz Hungary, Utopia Ciders, Vox in Excelsio 2017
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David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 