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Tastes change

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  • Post published:27/01/2018
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The other day I was trying a wine called In Côt We Trust from the stable of Pierre-Olivier Bonhomme. I remember (back in the time) my first encounter with this…

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New Wine Resolutions: Refresh your palates and wine lists

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  • Post published:23/01/2018
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We're nearly a month out from the holidays, and it’s time to refresh your palates and your wine lists. Ignore dry January for try-new-wine-January (or February or March) instead because, when…

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Doug Decants: Piquentum Wines

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  • Post published:23/01/2018
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This is a tale of a son of a Frenchwoman and an Istrian father, growing native Croatian grapes and making them in an old Mussolini-era concrete water tank. Born in…

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Keep on Punching: The Rise of Testalonga Wines

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  • Post published:15/01/2018
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Our first batch of 2017s have arrived and the Testalonga wines have gone to another level. Craig Hawkins is in a good place. He and Carla are now ensconced in…

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Wine is Politics: Part Two

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  • Post published:11/01/2018
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Continued from Part One... DOC, heal thyself - globalisation versus the grower   In France and Italy the official structures (appellations, interprofessional bodies, bureaucratic involvement) have been seen to militate…

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Doug Decants: Filippi Wines

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  • Post published:08/01/2018
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Soave is normally not sophisticated. At worst it may be a sulphurous travesty and even the better examples tend to be neutrality personified with all the fruit of the thinnest…

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2017: The Year of Treading Softly

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  • Post published:05/01/2018
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A Swift Retrospective It was not the best of times, it was not nearly the worst of times, despite the fact that a sociopathic orange person was wreaking daily fresh…

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In 2018 I predict…a quiet riot

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  • Post published:02/01/2018
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There is a saying that even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day. Trends, by definition, are rootless and transient, yet wine commentators are often falling over…

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