Sauvign-oak?
Victoria Moore's recent article in the Telegraph on oaked Sauvignon Blanc made us think that a blog post on the subject was overdue. So here're our two cents: Most commercial…
Real Pagne or Sham Pagne
Can there be such a thing as a natural champagne? Champagne is not only a region but a specific method of winemaking predicated on certain procedures. The main manipulation is…
Slovenia: The Small Country with the Big Wine Culture – Part Three
Biodynamic diversions A Wreath of Sonnets, by France Preseren (one of Slovenia’s great poets): Send but your rays their glory to renew And let me not look for dawn's light…
Slovenia: The Small Country with the Big Wine Culture – Part Two
Valter’s wine press – hot off the press. Valter Mlecnik The Mlecnik 9ha farm, situated on western end of the Vipava valley, is planted to Chardonnay, Rebula, Sauvignonasse (ex-Tocai Friulano),…
Slovenia: the small country with the big wine culture – Part One
A topographical, historico-cultural, vinological account of a swift trip to Slovenia, a small but vital country situated in southern Central Europe located at the crossroads of main European cultural and trade routes,…
Bang for Your Buck Tasting Reviewed
Our Bang for Your Buck tasting was held last week in the Music Room of some rather grand edifice on Carlton House Terrace SW1, arguably the only event in this…
Doug Decants: Burgenland & Oregon
Focus on: The very good burghers of Burgenland - Andert-Wein PM? Pull the Andert one. They call it Puligny-Montrachet, or PM for short, we call it wine of grape variety of…
The New Eagles Have Landed: Part Two – California
Welcome to our Hotel California, not a palatial guest house, more of a rusty lean-to out back. The philosophy of the growers that we deal with might best be summarised…
The New Eagles Have Landed: Part One – Oregon
In my buyer’s backpack I carry a compass which points to magnetic craziness. The wines don’t have to be madly, badly DJ Funkosaurus in the wilderness. They can be beautiful…
Words To The Wine
“I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.” ~ Virginia Woolf Plundering the pornucopia of…