Yearly Archives: 2013

...a year of many highlights. A massive thanks to our customers, those have kept faith in us and supported us in the last twelve months. And thanks to all who…

Manny: This is a farmyard of wine... Bernard: It's like looking into the eye of a duck... Manny: And sucking all the fluid from its beak. What is life in…

--There is a trend to highlight countries that have been making wine for several millennia and branding them “interesting new wine territories”, for the simple reason that a few key…

 Table Wine - Terraces Table Wine – Traditionally, a wine that could drink you under the table, but now a badge of honour in every country where the grower/winemaker would…

Les Caves de Pyrène has been down on the funny farms looking for crazy juice. The expression same-old, same-old simply does not figure in our lexicon as we sleuth out…

Spraying--Syrah Spraying – Vineyard managers who expostulate with contempt when they see a biodynamic farmed, their spittle is said to burn the very leaves off the canopy. Spumante – The…

It’s back! Time’s winged chariot has released its handbrake and once again we are hurtling towards the festival of wine, food and antic merriment known as The Real Wine Fair.…

Les Caves de Pyrène Piemonte Portfolio Tasting @ Dalla Terra Nebarcettos (and others) Piemonte is a region that bequeaths regal expectations, the result of a proud tradition of vine-growing and…

Riojas--Ruwer Riojas – People who are feeling a surfeit of Tempanillo are said to be “off their Riojas.” Riparia – Those growers in the States who gravitate to Vitis Vinifera…