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,…
Interpreting Wine podcast episode on the Real Wine Fair, featuring Doug Wregg
Our Sir Wregg is on the Interpreting Wine podcast talking about the Real Wine Fair 2024 (April 28-29th): its origins (and indeed Doug's and Les Caves de Pyrene's origins) as…
Is there a typical British palate?
I have been in more than one cab (but not at the same time), and when asked what I did for a living, explained truthfully that I was involved…
Doug Decants ~ The Wines of Agricola I Forestieri
Tuscan can do Agricola I Forestieri was born in 2019 as two friends and colleagues decided to embark on their own winemaking journey together. Dario Marinari cut his teeth working…
Capreolus Distillery, Cotswolds: Guest Post from Owner/Distiller Barney Wilczak
Written by Barney Wilczak, Distiller & Owner of Capreolus Distillery in England's Cotswolds As I write, a spiralling thread of liquid runs from the still before me. Inside the…
Savoy ahoy-hoy!
The wines of Savoie and Jura are often lumped together as issuing from a kind of agglomerated sub-Alpine region. In reality, they are very different in so many ways â…