Thoughts on tasting and tasters
Looking at the glass-twitchers, sniffers and slurpers at our recent Loire shindig made me think that tasting is as much about mood as anything. The more generic the tasting the…
Natural Dos & Donāts…Or how to live in harmony with people who like drinking natural wines
1)Ā Stop caricaturing the arguments. We hear of natural wine movements and pr campaigns, avid proponents and spokespeople. Who are these shadowy people who are influencing our lives? I think we…
Natural Reason
--by Doug Wregg Beware counter-counter culturalism. It disappears with alacrity up its own fundament. Take an argument that doesnāt exist and create a false thesis; use the counter argument to…
Chatting wine with…Arnold Schwarzenegger
So, Arnie, would you please describe the ideal Arnold Schwarzenegger wine? I like my wines to be like my muscles Ā - rippling with power and authority. I like to say…
Variety is the spice of Loire: Notes on our recent tasting
Loire Tasting at Delfina āRun the whole gamut of Gamay from the Auvergne to the Atlantic, tripping the Loire fantastique...ā The tasting journey begins in the west of the west…
Zeroing in on zero sulphur
Hereās the science bit... Sulphur ye the little wines and forbid them to be sold otherwise, for of such is the kingdom of homogeneity. And it is easier for a…
A revolutionary wine survey about wine surveys: our trends
A revolutionary wine survey about wine surveys has once again exposed the vast chasm in our knowledge about the drinking habits of Joe and Joanna public and thereby pointed out…
Cava Cava Chameleon
Ā RECAREDO ROCKS! When someone asks me whether we list a cava it is usually a not-so coded demand for something light, effervescent and cheap. Especially cheap. The idea that cava…
Beware Vins Natures!
--by Panda Jerk-Show It is a truth universally acknowledged there is no such thing as natural wine. This is because it is self-evident that nature does not make the wine,…
A guest post by Alice Feiring
Alice Feiring is one of the leading voices of natural wine in the US. She has written two excellent books on the subject, blogs about it regularly, and has recently…