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Terroir -- Typicity Terroir - I refer you to my monograph etc. etc. One of my favourite quotes from Trollope is the pithy aphorism: “Land is about the only thing that…

One of the oldest family-owned wineries in Chile, De Martino will be celebrating its 80th birthday in 2014. To mark this milestone they will be holding a special event on…

Supporting growers who respect the environment, who seek alternatives to chemicals, who exalt terroir and expression of fruit, who cherish the culture and particularity of their regions and uphold local…

A famous wine writer will announce with due solemnity that natural wine is an irrelevance, a busted flush, a little fad that no-one will talk about or be interested in…

*Let’s stop putting wine on a pedestal. *Let’s avoid using words like icon and iconic. Not only are they clichés, but they have come to mean unaffordable (and highly sought…

...a year of many highlights. A massive thanks to our customers, those have kept faith in us and supported us in the last twelve months. And thanks to all who…

Manny: This is a farmyard of wine... Bernard: It's like looking into the eye of a duck... Manny: And sucking all the fluid from its beak. What is life in…

--There is a trend to highlight countries that have been making wine for several millennia and branding them “interesting new wine territories”, for the simple reason that a few key…

 Table Wine - Terraces Table Wine – Traditionally, a wine that could drink you under the table, but now a badge of honour in every country where the grower/winemaker would…

Les Caves de Pyrène has been down on the funny farms looking for crazy juice. The expression same-old, same-old simply does not figure in our lexicon as we sleuth out…

Spraying – Vineyard managers who expostulate with contempt when they see a biodynamic farmed, their spittle is said to burn the very leaves off the canopy. Spumante – The inevitable…

It’s back! Time’s winged chariot has released its handbrake and once again we are hurtling towards the festival of wine, food and antic merriment known as The Real Wine Fair.…