Dancing Angels and the Joy of Wine
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…
Revving up the Revolution: Part One
When I first became interested in wine I was instructed to taste in a certain way, to break wine down into its constituent parts and to assess analytically (and dismissively).…
We’ve got a not-so-little-list
“The list is the origin of culture. It’s part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order.”…
Thoughts on Tasting and Tasters
Looking at the glass-twitchers, sniffers and slurpers at a recent Les Caves de Pyrene tasting made me think that tasting is as much about mood as anything. The more generic…
So you don’t like natural wines – help is at hand!
A guest post by Jamie Goode Jamie Goode is a London-based wine writer who is currently wine columnist with UK national newspaper The Sunday Express. He contributes regularly to a range of…
Austria and Oregon: random thoughts on recent buying trips. Part 2
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but is particularly indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less…
Austria and Oregon: random thoughts on recent buying trips
Part One – Roots “Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.” --The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the…
A revolutionary wine survey about wine surveys: our trends
A revolutionary wine survey about wine surveys has once again exposed the vast chasm in our knowledge about the drinking habits of Joe and Joanna public and thereby pointed out…
Everything you need to know about Oregon wine…
Portland A little local colour never comes amiss, so I will describe it as blandly and monochromatically as possible. Portland lies in the Marine west coast climate region, marked by…
Oregon: Part two – the heart and soul of biodynamics
Moe Momtazi and the heart and soul of biodynamics People must learn once more to “think” the spiritual “together with” the course of nature. It is not admissible today for…