Vintage Report 2022: Clos du Gravillas
John Bojanowski writes It was driest and hottest and early, Vendanges 24--Tres fort squirrely Beaucoup d'grapes in our baskets We throw'd off our blue maskets Shall be back for…
John Bojanowski writes It was driest and hottest and early, Vendanges 24--Tres fort squirrely Beaucoup d'grapes in our baskets We throw'd off our blue maskets Shall be back for…
Home, home again I like to be here when I can And when I come home cold and tired It's good to warm my bones beside the fire Far away…
Anna Flowerday writes… Over the spring of 2021 we experienced great conditions over flowering which led to moderate crops and a nice, even set which always bodes well for very…
November / Harvest All of the wines and ciders are now a'slumber: in barrel, steel tank, plastic and glass. They are settling out and stabilising post-fermentation. Some appear to…
If I were to create a woolly word wine cloud to encompass the language I use when talking and writing about wine – and natural wine, in particular -…
We caught up with Ben Walgate at Tillingham, in East Sussex, and discussed how the 2022 harvest has gone as well as more generally how things are going at Peasmarsh.…
When the word drunkenness comes into conversation it has various associations. In my mind’s eye I think of the great Hogarth “Gin Lane” sketch of debauchery and unconsciousness. Or the…
When the Kioutsoukis family migrated from East Romylia in the early 1900’s, a region at the Black Sea coast well known for its wine to Greece, they carried with them…
A bottle of wine amounts to the framing of countless choices. It does not even have to be a bottle – a key keg, a pouch or a can may…
Making the delta an alpha The region which we now refer to as the Costières de Nîmes boasts a viticultural history going back several centuries BCE when the Greeks were…