Rowing Forward: Tasting Natural Wine vs. Conventional Wine
This is a short addendum to the piece "Why Rowing Back is Not an Option", written earlier this year, which expresses how the growth of natural wine has revitalised the…
Meet The Contenders For Wines of 2024
It may be flaming June, but it is not bloody flaming. By the time this blog emerges (unlike the sun), it will probably be soggy July. Thatâs me tempting the…
A Q&A with Heidi Nam Knudsen of A Thousand Decisions
Heidi has been a close friend of Les Caves de Pyrene and The Real Wine Fair (as well as other small progressive natural wine merchants) for several years. She was…
Doug Decants ~ Walgate Wines, Rye, East Sussex
Walgate Wines (a.k.a. Ben Walgate) are committed to producing some of the finest wines in England. Ben is making good on this ambitious pledge. A slow and respectful winemaking process…
Read All About It: Amazing feedback for the Real Wine Fair 2024
We were overwhelmed with positive feedback of the Real Wine Fair, which took place on 28-29th April 2024 at Tobacco Dock in London. Here is just a small sampling of…
Real Thanks for the Real Wine Fair 2024
It takes a village to raise a fair 2024 saw the ninth iteration of the Real Wine Fair and the eighth edition to take place at Tobacco Dock in Wapping.…
Real Wine Fair 2024 FAQs
How to get the most out of the Real Wine Fair Here are most of the practical questions you might need an answer for (see FAQ) - with a few…
In Pod We Trust: Three Recent podcast appearances
Many years ago I was invited onto a Radio 4 programme whose rationale was to explore the ways we might improve our knowledge and understanding of those things in…
Orange Wines: An Affordable Squeeze
You have your Gravner, And your Radikon. And your Princic. And your Muster. And the Tscheppe brothers. And Zorjan. Amber wines aged with patience first on skins and then in…
First En Primeur Pet Nat to be Released
Les Caves de Pyrene are delighted to announce an en primeur offer for the 2023 vintage of Lost in a Field âFrolicâ pĂ©t-nat â not just a first for pĂ©t-nat,…