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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…
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…
Extracting sunbeams from cucumbers may be beyond their capabilities, but some oenologists seem to have the alchemical inclination to squeeze base gold out of simple grape juice. Wanting more from…
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,…
--by Christina Pickard Earlier this year, about a three weeks into my new life in Perth, Australia, I received an invite from a winemaker with an unpronounceable name asking if…
If music be the wine of love, fill your i-pod with Pinot A vague survey proved incontrovertibly that stuff happens to you when you taste wine with different music. The…
Gaillac to Gyropalette Gaillac - One of the first vinicultural centres of ancient Gaul with strong traditions and a spread of traditional grapes. Red wines, whites, vins jaunes, slightly sparkling, off…
By Maddie Bryett Carso is a small DOC situated in Friuli bordering Slovenia, in the far North East of Italy. It takes its name from the hilly plateau of calcareous…
Fake - Furmint That’s enough effing and blinding, Ms Austen -Pride and Extreme Prejudice Fake 1 - The latest example of passing off fraudulent wine to a Californian company was…
Earthy to Extraction Earthy - refers to a wine displaying characteristics which are less obviously fruit-driven and more to do with flavours of the soil. Wines from the South West…
A bev(v)y of wines that are hot to trot… 2012 Musikanto, Rafa Bernabe, Alicante Musikanto! If music be the food of love play on- but this wine needs no food.…