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Something BAD (sic), something new, and something a bit older (Ed- that’s feeble) Marto Wein is the project of Marto Otto Wörner and Alanna Lagamba who make natural wine in…

  When the song of the terroir drowns out the background noise Five years ago, I tasted a new addition to the Zidarich portfolio. I was already deeply enamoured with…

The time for wine is a feeling akin to switching off one’s phone (or sloughing off one’s work persona), marking a point in the day when one’s behaviour for a…

Puglian all one’s talents I Parieti was founded in 2019 by Matteo Santoiemma on his family farm in the Murge between Bari, Taranto and Matera. Matteo personally takes care of…

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…

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…

  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…

'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,…

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…

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…