Decanting: The wines of El Pinto
New thrillers from Parrilla El Pinto is a collaboration between Les Caves de Pyrene and Hacienda La Parrilla. The idea behind this project is to create excellent value wines from…
New thrillers from Parrilla El Pinto is a collaboration between Les Caves de Pyrene and Hacienda La Parrilla. The idea behind this project is to create excellent value wines from…
Jean Maupertuis tends 3.8 hectares of vines in the commune of Saint-Georges-sur-Allier and La Roche Noir in Auvergne. He works principally with a local version of Gamay referred to as âGamay…
Barking oddities and their relations This is our music, we love it loud -Kiss, Crazy Crazy Nights There was a time when natty wine was in its nappies (historically-speaking), so…
V-d-re is a new wine from Celler Credo, another lucid expression of Xarel-lo from Sant SadurnĂ dâAnoia in the Alt Penedès, a passion project from Antoni Mata Casanovas, second generation…
In the 1990âs, Philippe Meyer and Sophie Kumpf, both from long-established Alsatian winemaking families, married, and founded a new winemaking estate âKumpf et Meyerâ with its winery situated in the…
No Control, the Domaine of punk rock natural vigneron Vincent Marie, is located in Auvergneâs Volvic, a terroir characterised by an amazing range of soils of ancient and more recent…
The Dietrich family has farmed land in Alsace since 1600 mostly in the village of Scherwiller but also in an adjacent village. Historically, the family farm was to be run…
The process of fermentation in winemaking turns the must (grape juice) into an alcoholic drink called wine. During primary fermentation, yeasts transform sugars present in the juice into ethanol and carbon dioxide. The most common yeast associated with winemaking is…
Nathalie Gaubicher, former sommelier, founded Domaine Le Briseau in 2002, with her first husband, Christian Chaussard, in Marçon, in an area encompassing Jasnières and Coteaux-du-Loir. âBriseauâ is named after a plot on…
Unicorni-copia! Look â donât touch. In fact, donât even look. In European folklore, the unicorn is often depicted as a white equine - or goat-like - animal with a long…