2023 Vintage Report: Elisa Guerin, Moulin-à-Vent
We will bring vintage reports as and when producers find time to give us their perspectives. Suffice to say, that it is a mixed picture with some unique difficulties. In…
Diary of a Wine Week: From sober October to guilty wine pleasures
Monday Today, I read about for the first time something called “Sober October.” Puts head in hands and drops it. Smack forehead emoji. I haven’t worked in the wine trade…
Focus on: New wines from I Vigneri
When one thinks of I Vigneri, one thinks of Etna and Salvo Foti. I Vigneri is a project dedicated to Sicilian, and more specifically, Etnean heritage, in terms of reviving…
Doug decants ~ Di Gino Integrale Bianco, Fattoria San Lorenzo, Marche
Mag-nifico! I know what you’re thinking. Did he pour six glasses or only five, but in the excitement I kinda lost track myself. This being a 1.5 litre magnum of…
Red Wines of the Loire – The Atlantic to the Anjou-Saumur Border
When one thinks of red wines from the Loire, one probably imagines fruit-freighted wines, soft and juicy numbers. The real story, however, is a wee bit more complicated than that.…
Cara Sur Wines: Looking Forward by Looking Back
There are three levels (so to speak) of wines from Cara Sur, a collaborative project between Sebastián Zuccardi and Marcela Manini teaming up with Nuria Año Gargiulo and Pancho Burgallo,…
What’s new, Puddytat?
News of imminent arrivals The vitality of a wine portfolio depends on its constant renewal. This does not mean that it needs to increase in size, but rather than it…
Doug decants: Domaine Jeandaugé, Southwest France
Natural Star Wines – Gers Gers Bins In 2012, his family estate in Courresan in Gers, southwest France was under conventional farming methods. Then Sébastien Fezas stopped the use…
Cara Sur, Caro Mio
Rusticity refined from Argentina Cara Sur was formed in 2011 as a partnership between two couples inspired to revive ancestral vines and produce wines from traditional Argentine varietals. Sebastián Zuccardi and…
Taste Epiphanies and the Mechanics of Tasting
Discursions and digressions I know an epiphany when I experience one. They are not like buses. They don’t run to a schedule (maybe they are like London buses, then!). If…