More Wine Epiphany-ettes
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…
Doug Decants: Sato Riesling LâAtypique, Central Otago
Sato Wines was established by Yoshiaki Sato, and his wife, Kyoko Sato, as a small project in 2009. Kyoko and Yoshi met in 1998 at a Japanese bank, where they…
Clay all your love on me
Reign of terracotta In 2015, we organised a tasting called Feats of Clay and invited several growers to come over to London and pour wines that had been made in…
The Alternative Perspective: A New Series
An introduction to a series of short articles The phrase âdemotic ragâ entered my head the other morning. I wasnât fully aware. Caffeine has yet to trigger consciousness. Donât…
Nuggetorials 6: Nutshelling Natty Wine Issues
More random thoughts about wine This is, of course, a subject for a longer blog. A group of Cavistes were discussing the future of natural wine, and how our customers…
Focus On: Clos Henri, Marlborough
French savoir-faire in Marlborough When Jean-Marie and the late RĂ©mi Bourgeois inherited the Henri Bourgeois estate, the brothers were inspired to explore the possibilities offered by international wine regions. Their…
Natural vs. Conventional Wine: A Plea for Balance
By guest blogger Laura Milnes A few years ago, my brother-in-law became an orthodox Christian. Overnight, he was foisting prayer at every family meal and proselytizing why "his God is the…
Wine assessment and the Quality of Colour
I have been in more than one cab (but not at the same time), and when asked what I did for a living, explained truthfully that I was involved…
The Alternative Perspective (I): Correctness Versus Deliciousness
Statement: Whereas the vast majority of wines that are sold are technically correct as far as a faults-analysis panel might determine, they are also pretty boring to drink. With…
Doug Decants: Mersel Wine, Lebanon
âELEVATE!â One of the seminal moments in Dr Who history occurred in the imaginatively-titled 2005 episode Dalek when (spoiler alert!) the metallic pepper pot with the loo-plunger extension faced its greatest…