Spotlight on: The Don & Kindeli Wines, New Zealand
Alex Craighead and Josefina Venturino are establishing a reputation in the natural wine world. They have settled in Upper Moutere in Nelson and make wines that are bottled under two…
The Long Read: I Taste Red
Tasting is viewed – scientifically – as the reflexive response to various stimuli. It is both a mechanistic and cognitive activity. I am primarily interested in the translation of mere…
Coming Soon: New Season Little Pomona
Cider and perry is seasonal, don’t you know… and we are emerging into summer. Here are a few newbies to whet your appetites and wet your whistles, some of them…
The sense of natural
When people ask me to define natural wine, I have this abiding image of myself taking a hammer and trying to nail jelly to a wall. Definitions are always beset…
Spotlight on: Domaine Arretxea
Michel Riouspeyrous is a native Basque. He met his Alsatian future wife Thérèse while on a charity mission to Africa. On their return to France, they got married and decided…
Orange Wines & Tasting in 3-D
If amber wines were music, they would be as live performances, fuzzy, rough-edged and unpredictable. Their tactility means that you can touch them at the same time as they touch…
Sustain & Sustainability
I was one of the guests at a brilliantly-organised Zoom presentation arranged by The Pig at Harlyn Bay. The presentation itself centred around ideas of sustainability and organic farming, developing…
An appreciation of Dominique Belluard
It is with enormous sadness that we have learned that Dominique Belluard of Domaine Belluard has passed away. We would like to remember him as the brilliant vigneron he was,…
Spotlight on: Mas Foulaquier
Pierre Jéquier was an architect, but his passion for wine and the desire to work close to nature led him to the life of the vigneron. After a lot of…
Farewell, Terroirs! (2008 – 2021)
A personal reminiscence It has been officially announced that Terroirs, born in 2008 at the height of the recession in William IV Street WC2, is to close its doors and…
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