Bang for Buck Whites
What is bang-for-buck wine? The Bang …happens when a wine that favourably impacts your senses. It does not have to be obvious or powerful, the proverbial 2 x4 to the…
Swerving wines
We’re getting used to wines being other than what they should be. Cue a woad-spattered Mel Gibson screaming “freedom!” at the top of his lungs. Vin de France has…
Doug Decants: Between the Season Wines
'Tween seasons (summer & autumn) bottles End of summer sounds so final. Like the end of childhood. I always associate September with going back after hols like “the whining school-boy,…
Of Tasting and Tastings
Why are you not tasting what I am tasting? (I ask silently) Why are you making undue allowances for a wine that is plainly not interesting? To me! Every rhetorical…
Doug Decants: Tsaousi from Sclavos, Greece
Sclavos Tsausi, Cephalonia, Greece The Sclavos family traces its roots back for centuries in Cephalonia. A branch of the family emigrated in 1700 to the Black Sea port of Odessa…
The “dirty” Italian half dozen
A magnificent six ride again Italy was known as Enotria Tellus, the land of vines. Metternich said that Italy was “a geographical expression.” From the Alpine valleys of Valle…