The Point of Points: Part 3
The Nature of Wine Tasting Many dozens of books have fully explored the mechanics of taste, its fixities and definites, and there are numerous systems to codify or judge these.…
Fighting Wines: a Q&A
Q & A on Les Cavesâ âFighting Winesâ Tasting Everywhere I hear the sound of marching, charging feet, boy Cause summers here and the time is right for fighting in…
The Point of Points: Part 2 (Oxy-morons and Mountain dew)
Phile under Pinot Iâm sure Pinotâs musky quality directly stimulates the part of the brain that processes sensuality yet I've had more unfulfilling encounters with this grape than I care…
The Point of Points: Part 1
 Of pointyheads, pulse-quickeners & phoeno-types Compare this, rank that, analyse to the nth degree â the more you reduce wine to numbers the less you understand it. A scientist is…
The Truth about Terroir
Terroir, of course, a term used - and occasionally abused - in the wine world, and not just by the French, refers to wines that exhibit the character of the…
Wine au Naturel: a podcast interview with Jelena Bressan
--by Christina Pickard Jelena and Fulvio Bressanare some of Friuli's (in the northeast of Italy) finest winemakers. Champions of rare native grape varieties like Pignol, Schioppettino, and Verduzzo Friolano, Bressan's…
Orange-boom and the irresistible rise of skin contact wines
Every year winemakers get one crack at making the best wine they can. Some want to make the truest wine they can (more on this anon and anon). Throughout the…
Of Good Fairs, The Real Story, and Georgian Wine Culture
If I may rehash my chirpy cockney praise for natural wine fairs: A bit of natural wine, from the organic vine More than good, itâs fine â itâs out of…
Decanting the Real Wine Fair 2013
-by organiser Doug Wregg The dust has settled, the broken glass swept up, the spittoons dismantled for another year, the lights switched off and aching limbs and slightly sore heads…
Reality Bites
What is genius in wine? I think we can apply Schopenhauerâs observation: âGenius is its own reward. It serves no useful purpose; it bears no profit. It is as music,…