Can champagnes be termed natural wines?
Professor Natty gets fizzical A new series where you can ask Professor Natty (neither a professor nor well-dressed) any wine-related question you care to, and he will attempt to give…
Thoughts about…Writing Tasting Notes
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose,—words in their best order; poetry,—the best words in their best order. Samuel…
Doug Decants: Wines of 2024
Doug's Top 10 11 I have got a little list of personal wines of the year. It is a diary of drinking, naturally, but also about my feelings and attitudes…
Revising a natural wine manifesto
“For as we would wish that a painter who is to draw a beautiful face, in which there is yet some imperfection, should neither wholly leave out, nor yet too…