English Wine at the Real Wine Fair: Davenport Vineyards
Will Davenport of Davenport Vineyards will once again be at the Real Wine Fair this year 7-8th May 2017, pouring a selection of still and sparkling wines. He’s been making…
Back to basics, or what makes wine the way it is
In the beginning… Is potential. This comprises a particular location and a sympathetic culture. That culture will include the greater wine environment, the history of farming, the gastronomy of the…
Three Restaurants = Six Wine Bars
International pop-ups! Sunday May 7th Celebrating The Real Wine Fair! #realwinefair In their own words… Paris meets Battersea: Le Verre Volé at Soif Who stole the glass at Le Verre…
Not the last word by any means on the natural wine kerfuffle
This article is inspired, if that’s the right word, by a proliferation of silly pieces about natural wines recently. Like the mythical London buses, these broadsides tend to come in…
Keeping it Real (Wine) with Co-Organiser Doug Wregg
We are proud to say that Doug Wregg, our sales and marketing director was named no. 28 in this year's ‘Harpers' Hot 100: Celebrating the most influential people in the…
Doug Decants: Limoux and Oregon (as you do), plus Natural Resistance and Farewell to Patricia!
New Wines -a-coming-around-the-corner Gilles Azam, Domaine Les Hautes-Terres – delicious Limoux Chardonnay and a Crémant made from Chenin, Mauzac and Chardonnay called Josephine. Organic wines from beautifully farmed organic vineyards.…
Oregon, not forgotten: A report on the Wines of Oregon Tasting
...at One Great George Street. Up the sweep of the grand staircase into the cathedral-like Great Hall, beneath the unfeasibly huge pineal chandelier and underneath the stern gaze of bushy-faced…
Beware Natural Wines
It is a truth universally acknowledged: there is no such thing as natural wine. This is because it is self-evident that nature does not make the wine, but man does.…
Words to the Wine: Part Two
More twinkling English dialect words that might invigorate the tedious repetitions and formulations of wine-tasting descriptions. I’m not saying that they are remotely appropriate or that you have to use…
Chatting with: Christian Tschida
Winemaker, farmer, vigneron – how do you see your role? Is there an Austrian word or expression that captures the work that you do? Way more farmer than winemaker. I…