Tuscany Agency Tasting!
Les Caves Tuscany (and friends) Agency Tasting Where new Chiantis rub shoulders with other fresh-faced Italian arrivals. When: Monday 9th November, 11:00-17:30 Where: Vini Italiani Wine Bar & Shop, 72 Old Brompton Rd,…
Wine ahoy! Or Les Caves de Pyrene discovers America.
We’ve just discovered America (with respect to its native American population). A little late it has to be said. Certainly, after Zuan Chabotto (c.1450-99), the Venetian navigator and explorer. His…
Chatting with: Nickolai Globe, ceramic sculptor
Nickolai Globe produces individual studio ceramics, influenced directly by the environment of the Isle of Harris. His new work takes ceramics to the edge of craft, where sculpture and…
Advance Austria Fair
What’s the Austrian weather like, Ollie? It’s raining! Cats and dogs and strudel! Just returned from a week’s buying trip to Austria, a quick zip from Wachau to Styria via…
The Real Alternative Wine Glossary: I
INAO - Irrigant INAO - Interfering Nosy Aggravating Officiousness. Bless. Though sometimes INAO is INAO. Ice Wine – A vinous beverage improved immeasurably by the addition of an ice cube…
Chatting with: Craig Hawkins
Can you give us a brief potted biog? I got into wine as a result of my older brother Neil (who now lives and makes wine in Australia) whilst still…
Les Caves (Lez Kayves): A Potted History
Who is Les Caves de Pyrène No, Hu is the leader of China No – it only works as a homophone Who are you calling a homophone? No, Hu is…
Vasco Croft on the Aphros Amphora Project
Sometimes in our lives we are fortunate to make something without there having to be a reason, a single thought that leads inexorably to action. Rather, as in every…
Chatting with: Villalobos, home of the wild vineyard
Picture a vineyard... We stop by the head of a path, walk through a gate and promenade through woods of pine, eucalyptus and local trees until the woods became bushes,…
The Real Alternative Wine Glossary: H
Hammurabi - Hype Hammurabi – Ancient king of Babylonia and not an embryonic Basque grape variety Hand – positive – Hand harvested (which is selected by eye) implying an artisan,…
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