Doug decants: Judith Beck Welschriesling Bambule!
The Beck winery is a family estate in Gols, in northern Burgenland near lake Neusiedl. Traditionally, there were small mixed farms in the area, but they always grew vines as…
New Arrivals: From Oregon to Croatia, Marlborough to Burgenland!
Oregon trailers Ovum’s Off The Grid Riesling has just rejoined our supply to power your electrifying Riesling needs. Since I Fell For You Gewurz is the latest Traminer to fall…
Ficheing for information
We want information, information, information --The Prisoner There is no substitute for standing in a vineyard and shaking the clay from the soles of your shoes. To share the same…
Doug decants: Franz Weninger Vom Kalk, Burgenland Austria
Just as each wine grower is a unique individual, so too are their vineyards. Franz Weninger insists on expressing the different soil types found throughout Burgenland and uses Blaufrankisch as…
The wine in Strine stays mainly off the plain
The reverse convict boat from Australia docked recently with some convincing grog from our alternative and alliterative artisans. Pat Sullivan has sent us one of his indeterminate gluggers: Jumpin Juice, a…
Dare To Be Different
Original grapes, traditional styles, quirky stories, oddities, curiosities, accidents and a fanatical urge to push the envelope. Mauvais Temps, Nicolas Carmarans, Aveyron A last chance to try the native Negret…
What’s (not) in your wine?
It is symptomatic of the world we live in that we obsess about the niceties of labelling rather than talk about the quality of the contents of a bottle of…
Doug Decants: Vale da Capucha Arinto
The Marques family and their estate, Vale da Capucha, represent the viticultural renaissance that the Lisboa DO has experienced over the last decade. Having grown fruit for bulk wine production…
The Cavistes’s Wet January
Decanting our wines of last month * Our first soggy plump comes from the parish of Mr Board, who proffers Kolbroek Syrah Intellego as his wine dish of the day…
Tastes change
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…