Adventures in Burgenland
Burgenland lies around 35 minutes’ drive south east of Vienna and is divided into three broad regions: Neusiedlersee, Leithaberg and Mittelburgenland. We spent most of our trip in the former…
The Accidental Death of the Wine Writer
Andrew Jefford once announced at a European blogger’s conference that the wine writer is dead. We weren’t aware that he had been ill, but as the last typewriter rolled off…
What’s in the pot at our Feats of Clay Tasting?
Nicolas Reau makes several wines including a silky sans soufre Anjou red in cement and a racy white raised in used barrels. Descente aux Amphores Blanc & Rouge is his…
Language and Wine
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even…
Feats of Clay
Real Wine Fair Events Presents… Feats of Clay Tasting * 21st April 2015 Email: pr.events@lescaves.co.uk to register The terracotta vessel has made a triumphant comeback in winemaking and we are seeing its…
Kamptal Journey: Part 3 – Alwin Jurtschitsch & Stefanie Hasselbach
Weingut Jurtschitsch is a very important winery in the Kamptal, with a rich history. The press house is from the 16th century and they have an enormous 700 year-old natural,…
Natural Resistance at The 26th Cork French Film Festival
Natural Resistance at The 26th Cork French Film Festival Jonathan Nossiter’s Mondovino, a documentary about the globalization of the wine industry was short-listed for the Palme D’Or in Cannes in…
Kamptal Journey: Part 2 – M & A Arndorfer
Growing up in the vineyards and cellar of his parents’ estate in Strass, Martin Arndorfer comes from a long line of winemakers. Anna Steininger is the daughter of one of…
Kamptal Journey: Part One – Intro & tasting with Matthias Warnung
Welcome to Kamptal, the northernmost of three important virtually contiguous wine regions in Niederösterreich (and the largest in surface area and production), the others being Kremstal and Wachau. There is…
New Wines: France
La Nouvelle et La Belle With the brouhaha surrounding our new Spanish & Italian interlopers confidently twirling their moustachioes you would be forgiven to speculate that we had forgotten about…