Orange vs Skin Contact
Orange is a hottest-coolest colour in the wine spectrum. The colour denotes that grapes (which we might normally associate with white wines) have been macerated on their skins – as…
Doug Decants: The Wines of Clos du Tue-Boeuf
Rebels with a cause Since the Middle Ages, there have been records about the lieu-dit “le Tue-Boeuf” and its excellent wines which were enjoyed by the local nobility and the…
Vintage Report 2022: Clos du Gravillas
John Bojanowski writes It was driest and hottest and early, Vendanges 24--Tres fort squirrely Beaucoup d'grapes in our baskets We throw'd off our blue maskets Shall be back for…
An appreciation of Comando G
Home, home again I like to be here when I can And when I come home cold and tired It's good to warm my bones beside the fire Far away…
Vintage Report: Te Whare Ra, Marlborough New Zealand
Anna Flowerday writes… Over the spring of 2021 we experienced great conditions over flowering which led to moderate crops and a nice, even set which always bodes well for very…
Diary of a UK Wine Harvest: Woodfine Wine, Part 2
November / Harvest All of the wines and ciders are now a'slumber: in barrel, steel tank, plastic and glass. They are settling out and stabilising post-fermentation. Some appear to…
Natural Wine Word Cloud
If I were to create a woolly word wine cloud to encompass the language I use when talking and writing about wine – and natural wine, in particular -…
Diary of a UK Wine Harvest: Ben Walgate
We caught up with Ben Walgate at Tillingham, in East Sussex, and discussed how the 2022 harvest has gone as well as more generally how things are going at Peasmarsh.…
On drunkenness… or dronkenesse
When the word drunkenness comes into conversation it has various associations. In my mind’s eye I think of the great Hogarth “Gin Lane” sketch of debauchery and unconsciousness. Or the…
Doug Decants: Keramos by Kamara
When the Kioutsoukis family migrated from East Romylia in the early 1900’s, a region at the Black Sea coast well known for its wine to Greece, they carried with them…
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