Return of The Obligatory Summer Rosé Article!
Not another rosé article! No, not another rose article – by this or any other name - to out-frivol the pink drink. Time, wethinks, to put some perspective into the…
100 Great Natural Wines: Alsace
This is a series profiling the producers on our list who make natural wines. Within this series I will be highlighting some of the extraordinary and rare bottles and vintages…
Extraction and the Winemaker
Less is more except when the opposite is the case Extracting sunbeams from cucumbers may be beyond their capabilities, but some oenologists seem to have the alchemical inclination to squeeze…
The Unalternative Wine Glossary: C
Here is a lexicon of definitions of key wine words. The definitions are not intended to be scientifically objective and, in many cases, will be somewhat simplistic. Some will describe…
Decanting: Aphros Phaunus Pet Nat Rosé
Friendly meta-fizzical Tis the season to be petty and to live la vie en rosé. We’re in northern Portugal and with Vasco Croft at his project called Aphros. Born with…
100 Great Natural Wines: Southern Rhône, Provence & Corsica
This is a series profiling the producers on our list who make natural wines. Within this series I will be highlighting some of the extraordinary and rare bottles and vintages…
Love and Wine in the Time of Coronavirus: Part 1
March I always start writing projects way after the event. So, here am I sitting on the sofa, thirty pages into Bleak House and determined not to skip a page,…
Decanting: Andrea Occhipinti’s Alter Alea & Alea Rosa Rosato
Occhipintis are like buses. You wait for one and then three come along at once. Giusto (COS) and Arianna are well-established favourites amongst us and the natural wine cognoscenti. Andrea…
The Unalternative Wine Glossary: B
Here is a lexicon of definitions of key wine words. The definitions are not intended to be scientifically objective and, in many cases, will be somewhat simplistic. Some will describe…
Spring and Early Summer Arrivals: France
What’s been and gone and what’s still to come You can lock down a nation (Dominic Cummings excepted), but you can’t prevent a goodly amount of wine from breaking and…