Soul Juice – Patrick Sullivan Wine, Yarra Valley
A guest post by Daniel Honan aka The Wine Idealist “It may have changed, but a winemaking degree is an absolute waste of time,” says Patrick Sullivan, “if you want…
Pretty in Pink: Part 1 (The Frenchies)
We’ve probably endured enough whimsical articles about “la vie en rosé” and how we should be “tickled pink” by surprisingly drinkable rosé wines, but that’s not going to stop this…
Moonwalking at The London Wine Sessions
Looking at the wine world from afar with a considerable lack of gravity… A peripatetic journey around the wine world or, if you prefer, rumbling in the wine jungle, alighting…
A world without the Aussie wine show: Part Two
--Christina Pickard Continued from Part One Another aspect of the wine show that gets rarely gets mentioned but is all-too-often an elephant in the room, is bullying. I suspect so…
A world without the Aussie wine show: Part One
--Christina Pickard Moving from the UK to Australia, after having grown up in the United States, is hardly a culture shock. The language is mostly the same, the food is…
The New List Approacheth! (The second half)
Buying wine is as much about refreshment and renewal as plugging theoretical gaps in wine portfolios, the principle being that you should & would drink the wines yourself. Consequently, we…
Our new list is imminent
So what are the new wines that are fit to make it into print? Part One – French Polishing Up SW France ~ Languedoc~ Roussillon Nicolas Carmarans - Maximus…
French wine stupidity: A guest post by Alice Feiring
In an effort to encourage more outside voices on our blog, we have asked several prominent wine writers and natural wine supporters to contribute their words to our pages. We…
Real Wine & Fearless Asymmetry
It’s nice to abandon logic (to be an uncritic, as it were) and the habit of mind that would “murder to dissect” (to quote Wordsworth) wine and to go with…
The Real Alternative Wine Glossary: X, Y, Z
Xarel.lo to Xylotypographic Xarel-lo! – How you should greet a top class Cava. X-cess - as in “Give me excess of it, that surfeiting, /The appetite may sicken, and so…