Yearly Archives: 2013

When I first became interested in wine I was instructed to taste in a certain way, to break wine down into its constituent parts and to assess analytically (and dismissively).…

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. ~Henry David Thoreau I've been asked by sundry, if…

I’ve argued on these pages and elsewhere that it is trite to bandy loaded terms such as “natural”, “conventional” and “movement” willy-nilly as in “natural wine movement” and to have…

The Prog Nose-Ticator sniffs out some further unlikely bouquets to inhale... * 2011 Burgundy will be re-evaluated as a much better vintage than previously thought, because 2012 etc… What do…

It is customary now to don the oenomancer’s robes, look into crystal glass, sift through the skanky lees and prognosticate like you mean it. So here goes - a bevy…

The fault is in the finder Winemaking, natural or otherwise, is a series of individual choices and always will be. In the name of hating oxidation the contras would surely…

Prompted by a recent exchange on a blog Exordium: Is there a place in the purity of wine discourse for terms such as “priest” to denote the fundamental irrationalism of…