2014 Wish List
*Let’s stop putting wine on a pedestal. *Let’s avoid using words like icon and iconic. Not only are they clichĂ©s, but they have come to mean unaffordable (and highly sought…
*Let’s stop putting wine on a pedestal. *Let’s avoid using words like icon and iconic. Not only are they clichĂ©s, but they have come to mean unaffordable (and highly sought…
...a year of many highlights. A massive thanks to our customers, those have kept faith in us and supported us in the last twelve months. And thanks to all who…
Manny: This is a farmyard of wine... Bernard: It's like looking into the eye of a duck... Manny: And sucking all the fluid from its beak. What is life in…
--There is a trend to highlight countries that have been making wine for several millennia and branding them “interesting new wine territories”, for the simple reason that a few key…
 Table Wine - Terraces Table Wine – Traditionally, a wine that could drink you under the table, but now a badge of honour in every country where the grower/winemaker would…
Les Caves de Pyrène has been down on the funny farms looking for crazy juice. The expression same-old, same-old simply does not figure in our lexicon as we sleuth out…
Spraying--Syrah Spraying – Vineyard managers who expostulate with contempt when they see a biodynamic farmed, their spittle is said to burn the very leaves off the canopy. Spumante – The…
It’s back! Time’s winged chariot has released its handbrake and once again we are hurtling towards the festival of wine, food and antic merriment known as The Real Wine Fair.…
 Saar - Spoonerisms Saar – Amazingly adjacent to Ruwer in this wine glossary. A tribute to significant tributaries that mosey on to the Mosel. Sack – A drink consumed by…
Les Caves de Pyrène Piemonte Portfolio Tasting @ Dalla Terra Nebarcettos (and others) Piemonte is a region that bequeaths regal expectations, the result of a proud tradition of vine-growing and…