Yearly Archives: 2013

Gaillac to Gyropalette Gaillac - One of the first vinicultural centres of ancient Gaul with strong traditions and a spread of traditional grapes. Red wines, whites, vins jaunes, slightly sparkling, off…

By Maddie Bryett Carso is a small DOC situated in Friuli bordering Slovenia, in the far North East of Italy. It takes its name from the hilly plateau of calcareous…

Fake - Furmint That’s enough effing and blinding, Ms Austen -Pride and Extreme Prejudice Fake 1 - The latest example of passing off fraudulent wine to a Californian company was…

Earthy to Extraction Earthy - refers to a wine displaying characteristics which are less obviously fruit-driven and more to do with flavours of the soil. Wines from the South West…

A bev(v)y of wines that are hot to trot… 2012 Musikanto, Rafa Bernabe, Alicante Musikanto! If music be the food of love play on- but this wine needs no food.…

Dame to Dung Dame - “The last time that I trusted a dame was in Paris in 1940. She was going out to get a bottle of wine. Two hours…

“All Life is a Dispute Over Taste and Tasting” (Friedrich Nietzsche) When the words wine and industry appear together in a sentence, portentousness and navel-gazing are always in the vicinity. However, junk and science is one of my…

Bandwagon to Burgundy Bandwagon - ‘If you see a bandwagon, it’s too late’ said Sir James Goldsmith. Unfortunately, too many bandwagons rumble on flattening everything in their path. The frenzied…

Behind the winespeak If you really want to know your Alsace from your Elbling here is a sideways squint at the real meaning beneath the language of wine… ABC -…