Revisiting Taste, Tasters and Tastings
Looking at the glass-twitchers, sniffers and slurpers at one of our recent shindigs made me think that tasting is as much about mood as anything. The more generic the tasting…
Thirsty for Hungary
When you are in a country for a very short period you barely have time to get your bearings let alone taste enough wine to come up with a qualified…
Doug Decants: Minimus Origin Gouges Zivo Vineyard 2016
This is Chad Stock’s second foray into Pinot Noir Blanc territory. Yes, a red grape mutated into a white with partial skin contact. Go figure! Zivo is the name of…
Les Caves at The Great Sherry Tasting
The Great Sherry Tasting returned to London this month, a chance for us to mug up on our soleras and criaderas, and plunge quizzical beaks into copitas of Palo Cortados…
Chatting with: Wine Writer Simon J Woolf
Award winning writer, natural wine expert and Decanter contributor Simon J Woolf today announced the launch of his first book Amber Revolution. Subtitled “How the world learned to love orange…
Doug decants: Forlorn Hope
2015 Gemischter Satz by Forlorn Hope We love a crazily fearless blend and this wine is the mashiest of Austro-Germanic mash-ups. Matthew Rorick writes of his Forlorn Hope project: 'The…
We’ve got a not-so-little-list
“The list is the origin of culture. It’s part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order.”…
Les Caves’s Autumn Trade Tasting!
Tuesday 3rd October, 10am-6pm at The Hellenic Centre Something new, something old, something fun to banish the wine blues Our autumn tasting is a timely dip into the wilds and werewolves…
One score and ten years in the wine business
Grizzled vets don’t have to grizzle to be accorded that status. But they have to have seen a reasonable amount of wine of all colours and all qualities flow beneath…
Don’t Pass Over These Yaks
Domaine d'Aurensan and Chateau de Leberon: Vintage Armagnacs Domaine d'Aurensan The Aurensan vineyard – a family venture run by father Bernard and his two daughters, Sophie and Caroline, spreads over…