Diary of a UK Wine Harvest: Woodfine Wine, Part 2
November / Harvest All of the wines and ciders are now a'slumber: in barrel, steel tank, plastic and glass. They are settling out and stabilising post-fermentation. Some appear to…
Natural Wine Word Cloud
If I were to create a woolly word wine cloud to encompass the language I use when talking and writing about wine – and natural wine, in particular -…
Diary of a UK Wine Harvest: Ben Walgate
We caught up with Ben Walgate at Tillingham, in East Sussex, and discussed how the 2022 harvest has gone as well as more generally how things are going at Peasmarsh.…
On drunkenness… or dronkenesse
When the word drunkenness comes into conversation it has various associations. In my mind’s eye I think of the great Hogarth “Gin Lane” sketch of debauchery and unconsciousness. Or the…
Doug Decants: Keramos by Kamara
When the Kioutsoukis family migrated from East Romylia in the early 1900’s, a region at the Black Sea coast well known for its wine to Greece, they carried with them…
Musings on Wine Tastings, Storytelling through an Oregonian lens
A bottle of wine amounts to the framing of countless choices. It does not even have to be a bottle – a key keg, a pouch or a can may…
What’s the deal with Costières de Nîmes?
Making the delta an alpha The region which we now refer to as the Costières de Nîmes boasts a viticultural history going back several centuries BCE when the Greeks were…