The Real Alternative Wine Glossary: P (2nd half)
Pinotage--PX Pinotage â Someone who canât stand Pinotage (and there are many) is said to have a Pinotage allergy. Pinotage 2 â Pinot in its dotage. Pinotphilia - The strange…
Everything you ever needed to know about Chenin Blanc: Part deux
And we continue to wax lyrical about Chenin Blanc in its many guises... A versatile food wineâŚ(caution: tummy rumbles may occur) Chenin can be drunk with so many things. The…
Everything you ever needed to know about Chenin Blanc: Part Un
âIâd give my goddam soul for a glass of Vouvray.â --Jack Torrance This supremely versatile and noble Loire grape makes all styles from petillant and sparkling to bleach-bone dry, tender,…
The Real Alternative Wine Glossary: P (1st half)
Paarl - Pink, Pretty In Paarl â Comes before wines in South Africa. Pacherenc du Vic-Bilh â A quasi-masonic ritual observed in Gascon restaurants whereby you will only be able…
WIN a MAGNUM of GANEVAT!
Domaine Jean-François Ganevat - Fanfan garners more fans âTo say that his grapes are spun into gold would not be far from the truth; they are entirely otherworldly.â -Kermit Lynch…
The Real Alternative Wine Glossary: O
Oak - Oyster Oak - Iâm getting oak with plummy overtones Iâm getting screwed on alimony --Frasier Oaked (pejorative) - eye of oak newt; essence of vanillin toad. Can be…
Salts of the earth
Following on from the second part of our Terroir Series where we discussed the wine term 'minerality' (and her naysayers)... It would be interesting to correlate the impression of saltiness found…
Anti-Terroirists
Following on from part 1 of our Terroir Series, part 2 covers concept of 'minerality' in wine: âMystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.â --Julian Barnes, Flaubert's…
Terroir: Soil Associations! (Part 1)
Do you believe in terroir? Is it something to believe in? Or is it as vague and questionable as The Great Pumpkin, The Loch Ness Monster and The Moral Rectitude…