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The Prog Nose-Ticator sniffs out some further unlikely bouquets to inhale... * 2011 Burgundy will be re-evaluated as a much better vintage than previously thought, because 2012 etc… What do…

It is customary now to don the oenomancer’s robes, look into crystal glass, sift through the skanky lees and prognosticate like you mean it. So here goes - a bevy…

The fault is in the finder Winemaking, natural or otherwise, is a series of individual choices and always will be. In the name of hating oxidation the contras would surely…

Prompted by a recent exchange on a blog Exordium: Is there a place in the purity of wine discourse for terms such as “priest” to denote the fundamental irrationalism of…

Nature may be a pretty lass, but she is also pretty scruffy. Here are some delightful beauty tips brought to you by the those caring folks at the Laboratory of…

Even if you have nothing to say, say it, advised one of my tutors at university, which reminds me of Goethe’s aphorism: “When ideas fail, words come in very handy”.…

I have done innumerable natural wine master-classes/seminars - call them what you will – over the last twelve months. It feels odd to be cast as a pontifical spokesman for…

It is a fact universally accepted that nothing is what it seems and so our list is not a simple catalogue, a digest of wines and prices, but a succession…

Obviously we would be grossly negligent as fair-minded individuals if we did not give a platform for the articulate effusions of the critics of natural wine. And so we give…

Rather than spending their lives defending nomenclature, delving into semantic nuances and untangling gossamer philosophical niceties, natural wine drinkers – copains & copines alike - drink wine. Which seems the…