Talking about wine and health
I am not an expert (to put it mildly) about whether the systemic use of chemicals in vineyards and the cocktail of allowable additives used to stabilise wines is injurious…
I am not an expert (to put it mildly) about whether the systemic use of chemicals in vineyards and the cocktail of allowable additives used to stabilise wines is injurious…
One of the things that I like doing on holiday is to bring a bottle of wine down to the beach when the sun is setting, half fill a glass…
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Denogent family, originally from Fuissé, started the winegrowing business. Andrée Robert, née Denogent, grandmother of Antoine and Nicolas, owned 5 hectares of…
We roll blinking into September with a pair of trade tastings. The first is in London called (Do You) Remember the 23rd of September? The title is a nod and…
Andrea Occhipinti fell in love with the vineyards of Gradoli while he was at the Agrarian University of Tuscia, so much so that they became the subject of his…
The other day I was given a wine blind and asked to guess what it was. I wasn’t getting anything. It was neutral with a short finish and all I…
The other day, at a nameless restaurant in a nameless place, three colleagues and I drank a large number of nameless conventionally-made “classic” wines. When I say drank, I mean…
With torrential rain throughout the last couple of months, it is only fair that we report on a flood of new and recent arrivals. These are but a small proportion…
I have had a huge soft spot for Jurançon since I first encountered a dry version of the wine in a restaurant in Marylebone in the early 1990s. Our company…
Certain grape varieties, like football teams, engender strong supportive feelings in individuals. Perhaps, they enjoy an exalted reputation as a noble variety and accrue a mythology around themselves. We hear…