Tag Archives: Stefano Bellotti

Restyling Wine – Les Caves de Pyrene at Thirty

Posted on 20/09/2018 by

Back in the 1990s I discovered a wine merchant who appeared to sell all the weird and wonderful wines I’d come to love over the previous decade. I’d just had a few trips to Aosta, and I couldn’t believe I … Continue reading →

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Real Wine Fair 2017, Part 3 – France, Spain, Portugal, Italy

Posted on 13/05/2017 by

Part 3 of my Real Wine Fair roundup for 2017 covers nine European producers, half of which may be familiar to readers, and the other half, I’m guessing, less so. Europe in general is familiar territory, of course, to lovers … Continue reading →

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The Real Deal (Part 1)

Posted on 18/04/2016 by

I was at East London’s Tobacco Dock yesterday for the Real Wine Fair. This is an event for natural and low intervention, organic and biodynamic, winemakers organised by Les Caves de Pyrene, the wine agency who were first responsible for … Continue reading →

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Natural Resistance

Posted on 17/02/2016 by

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 →

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