Do You Know Your Alsace From Your Elbow?
The new Alsatian’s Natural Creed stateth that farming should be biodynamic and that winemaking boundaries can - and should be – pushed to the maximum minimal. It is not just…
Podcasts galore! Orange x Natural Wine & Oregon Wine Culture
In a previous life I must have been an orange because I am forever being asked to spout on about that colour. In relation to wine! It is a topic…
Doug Decants (and cooks!): Podere Sassi Sassolini with Aubergine & Mushroom Lasagne
The farm Podere Sassi lies in a beautiful location overlooking the surrounding valleys of the southern Sabina. It’s a small biologic agricultural holding that is characterised by a pure, strong…
VINFLUENCERS: Part 1 ~ Giusto Occhipinti & Azienda Agricola COS
What draws us to wine, in an intellectual as well as emotional way, is that we are naturally fascinated by people and the places they come from and the wines…
Yet Another Orange Wine Blog
Do you remember when every other blog seemed to concern the irresistible rise of orange wines? Orange was – for a time - the only colour. It dominated discourse. I…
Not reneging on the idea of terroir
I have been flailing around about what to write about recently until I read a thread on a well-known wine educator’s page. It was a classic lemon-sucking post, pooh-poohing the…
Doug Decants: La Palazzetta, Montalcino
The 18-hectare family run winery and vineyards are situated on the south-eastern edge of the Montalcino appellation in the tiny village of Castelnuovo dell’ Abate. Flavio Fanti is a traditionalist…
Ticking Approval Boxes
As I raise the glass of wine to my lips, I am listening to a verbal picture being painted by a friend of mine of a young female vigneronne…
Introducing: The Hearach, A Single Malt from The Isle of Harris
The Hearach is the first, historic single malt whisky from the Isle of Harris, as the distilling traditions lost during the Pabbay clearances of the 1840s have been revived. Every…
Doug Decants ~ The Wines of Dominio del Urogallo
Bangers from Cangas Fran Asencio is the man behind Dominio del Urogallo, a domain of old vines, complex soils and steep slopes, in the cooler climate of an Atlantic-influenced region.…