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Raw London 2018 Part 1
So Raw has been and gone for another year. Raw Wine seems now to be a real community – a group of artisans who know each other, so the vibe is always friendly and buzzing. If anyone doesn’t know Raw Wine, … Continue reading
Posted in Alsace, Beaujolais, biodynamic wine, Bordeaux Wine, Jura, Natural Wine, Rhone, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Festivals, Wine Tastings
Tagged Alsace Wine, Amphora Wines, Beaujolais, Bugey, Bugey Mondeuse, Domaine de Valmengaux Bordeaux, Domaine Geschickt, Emmanuelle Milan, Eric Thill Jura, Karim Vionnet, L'Epicurieux Beaujolais, Laurent Bannwarth, Le Vignoble du Rêveur, Mathieu Deiss, Natural Wine, Philippe Viret, Raw Wine, Raw Wine London 2018, Sébastien Congretel, Stéphane Bannwarth, Sud Revermont Producers, Yves Duport Bugey
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Return to the Vaults Part 3 – Winemakers Club and Gergovie Wines
By splitting my article on the March 2017 Vaults Tasting into four parts, I hope I’m making it more manageable. If you really want to skip anything, it makes it easier, but to do so would be a mistake. I … Continue reading
Posted in Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged Aleks Klinec Ortodox, Domaine des Hauts Baigneux, Domaine des Marnes Blanches, Domaine Julien Mayer, Domaine Julien Meyer, Gergovie Wines, Hegyi-Kalo Eger, Hegyi-Kalo Kekfrankos, Hegyikalo, Jerome Jouret Ardèche, Karim Vionnet, Kiralyudvar Furmint, Klinec Medana 1 Classe 2006, La Grande Ourse, La Grange de L'Oncle Charles, La Vigne du Perron Bugey, Le Petit Domaine de Gimios, Marie Lavaysse, Muller-Thurgau, Nicolas Grosbois, Ostheim, Oszkar Maurer Serbia, Pascal Chalon Cotes du Rhone, Patrick Meyer, Petite Ourse, Philippe Mesnier, Pierre Lavaysse, Serbian Wine, Sittweg, Stefan Vetter Franken, Vaults Tasting, Vergé L'Ecart, Vergé Viré Macon, Winemakers Club
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Le Beaujolais Nouveau…Est Arrivé?
Is anyone here old enough to remember, back in the 1980s/90s, when the Beaujolais Nouveau marketing machine got into full swing? For most lovers of half-decent wine it was horrible to behold. The UK, a nation of beer drinkers, was really … Continue reading
Posted in Beaujolais, Natural Wine, Paris, Wine, Wine Festivals
Tagged Andrew Nielsen, Beaujolais, Beaujolais Nouveau, Brut de Cuve, Chateau Chambon, Domaine des Grottes, France Gonzalvez, Guy Breton, Jean Foillard, Jean-Claude Lapalu, Jean-Paul Brun, Karim Vionnet, Le Grappin, Les Papilles, Philippe Pacalat, Remi Dufaitre, Romain des Grottes, Verre Volé, Xavier Benier
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Catching up – Recent Wines
I haven’t written a roundup of “recent” wines since mid-September, so I’ve had to be fairly strict about how many I mention, and culling it down to a case-sized dozen seems reasonable. The fact that the wines below contain four … Continue reading
Posted in Austrian Wine, Jura, Natural Wine, Wiener Gemischter Satz, Wine
Tagged Arbois, Arnold Holzer, Beaujolais, Beaujolais-Villages, Brad Hickey, Brash Higgins, Burgenland, Chardonnay-Riesling, Cuvée L'Automne, Domaine de la Pinte, Domaine des Bottes Rouges, Domaine des Marnes Blanches, Domaine L'Octavin, Dora Bella Poulsard, Eschenhof Holzer, Ganevat Kopin!, Gemischter Satz, Jean-Baptiste Menigoz, Jura, Jutta Ambrositsch, Karim Vionnet, Languedoc Natural Wine, Les Caves de Pyrene, Liberty Wines, Mas Coutelou, McLaren Vale Wine, Meinklang, Meinklang Prosa, Newcomer Wines, Pinot Noir C'est Max, Red Squirrel, Riesling-Semillon, Sankt Laurent, Savagnin Empreinte, Sieveringer Ringelspiel, Solent Cellar, Tete a Claques, Tutto Wines, Vienna Wine, Vintage Roots, Wagram, Wholefoods Wine, Winemakers Club
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Jolly, Beau and New, but no Nouveau
Last night a dozen devotees slipped into the air-conditioned private room at 10 Cases in Covent Garden for a much anticipated look at some “new school” (is that s-cool?) Beaujolais, the kind of trendy stuff mostly found in those hyper-cool … Continue reading
Posted in Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Tastings
Tagged 10 Cases Restaurant, Beaujolais, Christopher Piper, Domaine du Botheland, Jean-Paul Thévenet, Julie Balagny, Julien Duport, Julien Sunier, Karim Vionnet, Laurence & Remi Dufaitre, London, New School Beaujolais, On Pète la Soif, Oreo Cheesecake
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