Yearly Archives: 2023

This was perhaps not a vintage year for stellar wines, although that might be as much that I was suffering from jaded palate syndrome. The list below features a couple…

PX marks the spot Founded in 1729, Alvear is not only the oldest winery in Montilla, but in all Andalucia. The family-owned company has been around for almost three centuries,…

The Real Wine Fair will be returning for its 8th edition to London’s historic Tobacco Dock in 2024! The dates will be Sunday 28th (public and trade) and Monday 29th…

Wine tasting is traditionally broken down into three sensory disciplines: appearance, aroma or smell, and taste. However objective we may claim to be in our assessments, these are our perceptions…

Your money for your lupins The Boomtown Rats sang: “I don’t like Mondeuse”, but what did they know about Savoie’s great red grape? In Wine Grapes, by Jancis Robinson, Julia Harding,…

Continued from Part One... Of natural wine origins and movers-and-shakers Literature is riddled with examples of the unreliable narrator from Nelly in Wuthering Heights, Pi Patel in Life of Pi,…

The 1000th Blog (give or take) and doing it our way For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself then he has naught Not to say…

It takes a village to raise a child. It takes a friendly wine community to support a small wine company, especially through its first uncertain steps on a new path,…

It takes a village to raise a child. It takes a friendly wine community to support a small wine company, especially through its first uncertain steps on a new path,…

Muscadet Excelsior 2020 & Berceau des Fees 2022 This has not been a stellar year for wine epiphanies. The epiphany can be a whiplash crack of realisation and self-realisation, or…