Decanting our recent “Restyling Wine” tasting: Part One
A Les Caves tasting with a difference Part One Restyling Wine, our 18th September autumn trade tasting, was a tasting with a slight difference, an attempt to refresh wine…
Chenin: the grape we love (Part Two – Out of South Africa)
Read Part One of our Ode to Chenin Blanc here. Craig Hawkins makes wines in Swartland. His project is called Testalonga El Bandito, wherein he makes a pair of Chenins…
Stefano Bellotti: An Appreciation
Stefano Bellotti understood farming and the language of nature at a fundamental level; He made wines that were wild, long-lived and spoke deeply of their origins. He was the spirit…
Doug decants: The Wines of Cascina Iuli
Fabrizio Iuli grew up (literally) in his mother’s restaurant and used to help out from a very early age. His grandfather had planted some Barbera in the fields behind the…
Chenin: the grape we love (Part One)
I’d give my goddam soul for a glass of Vouvray. --Jack Torrance This supremely versatile and noble Loire grape makes all styles from pétillant and sparkling through bleach-bone dry, tender,…
It was 30 years ago today…
As mentioned in virtually every piece that we write now, we are thirty years old this year! A lot of real and metaphorical vino has passed under the bridge; the…
Doug Decants: Capreolus – rare eaux de vies from the Cotswolds
When we finally discovered the house on the outskirts of Cirencester we encountered three figures up to their elbows (literally) in blackberries, arms and faces painted in crimson-purple juice. Individual…
New Arrivals: Oregon (Bow & Arrow and Kelley Fox Wines)
The United States of Loiregon More power to the Bow Scott Frank of Bow and Arrow obeys the rule of the Loire. For him it involves sourcing the right vineyards…
Sulphur ye not the little wines
Arguably not the last word on the subject To find no-sulphur wines liberating and energising is not to cast aspersions on wines that are made with an addition of sulphur.…
Restyling wine tastings: A modest proposal in anticipation of our 18th September Trade Tasting
Let’s be frank. Tastings are pretty tedious, aren’t they? You might make a discovery or two at one, or have a chance to have a chinwag with a grower at…
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