Chapter Two: The Reign of Terroir: Part Three
Continued from Chapter Two, Part Two. Read Chapter Two Part One, and Chapter One Parts One, Two and Three here. Terroir and the good, the bad and the ugly grapes In the way that humans like…
Chapter Two: The Reign of Terroir: Part Two
Continued from Chapter Two, Part One. Read Chapter One Parts One, Two and Three here. Digression Concerning the Art & Nature of wine transformation Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. --Thomas Huxley The…
Chapter Two: The Reign of Terroir: Part One
Read Chapter One Parts One, Two and Three. My agent narrowed his eyes and bit down on the end of an unfeasibly large cheroot. “Look, kid. You’re meant to be…
The Autobiography of Les Caves de Pyrene. Chapter One, Part Three: We’re all mad here
Read Parts One and Two... Madiran We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad. --The Cheshire Cat, Alice in Wonderland O tannin bomb, o tannin bomb. There lurks a Tannat-ridden…
Doug Decants: Tokaji Aszu 5 Puttonyos
Aszu were with that slow furmint! The undisputed king of Hungarian vineyards, Mount Tokaj is located to the north of the country, 200 km east of Budapest. This legendary location…
The Autobiography of Les Caves de Pyrene. Chapter One Part Two: Mining our South West Origins
Read Part One HERE. [The three musketeers and D’Artagnan are escaping from the Cardinal’s men in his own coach] Porthos: Champagne? Athos: We’re in the middle of a chase, Porthos.…
Is Natural Wine Moral?
We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach. - Bertrand Russell My innate…
The Autobiography of Les Caves de Pyrene. Chapter One: Roots, Lees, Oak and The Blood of the Soil
Free fighters, free lovers, free spend- ers – The Cadets of Gascoyne the de- fenders Of old homes, old names and old splen- dors. --Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac I’m remembering…
Decanting our recent “Restyling Wine” tasting: Part Two
From Old Vines to Decanter by way of Pet Bubbles Read Part One HERE. Old vines denoted wines that have seventy-plus years on the clock. Venerable the vines may…
Doug Decants: The Wines of Le Domaine Plageoles
Tradition is not a return to an obsolete past, but rather the permanence of its origins through time --Frederik Tristan Since 1805, seven generations of the Plageoles family have carried…
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