Wines of the Year: Part Two
Will and Doug uncork some of their vinous highlights of 2019. (Read Part One of our Wines of the Year HERE.) Will: Although my views about best-of-year picks tend to…
Doug Decants: Cascina Iuli’s La Rina (Piedmont, Italy)
Fabrizio Iuli grew up in a restaurant family. For over 60 years, the Iuli family served award-winning Piedmontese cuisine in their guest house/hotel, but it was the local demand for…
What goes on when we taste wine?
There are moments when you drink a wine that become hand-wringing, bell-ringing events; transcendent moments that palpitate the nerve-endings and lodge in your memory cortex forever. When we post about…
Guest Post: On the Abracadabra of Bottling by Hannah Fuellenkemper
--Hannah Fuellenkemper I know that wine is about transformation, but no one warned me about the transformative power of packaging, and how in seconds it could change what had been…
Doug Decants: Recent Orange Additions: Part 1 – France
Although times they-are-a-changing and French vignerons and vigneronnes are cottoning on to making skin-contact wines, there was a time when you would have to search hard to find an amber-hued…
Wines of the Year (so far) – Part One
Doug & Elliott pore over some of their favourites... In an ongoing series, we (Les Cavistes) decant the wines that rocked our respective boats and rolled our barrels in the…
A Humble Alternative to the Top Fifty Vineyards in the World – Part Two.
Read Part One here. A recent report (voted by “experts”) listed the Top Fifty Vineyards in the World. It seemed more about companies with edifice complexes, than anything to do…
Georgian Wine Times Have Returned!
Georgian wines, that is, wines from the Republic of Georgia, have certainly been capturing the hearts and minds of the UK trade over the past few years. For seekers of…