Does Does: Slovenia (Day Two): Biodynamic diversions with Zorjan
Read Doug Does: Slovenia (Day One) HERE. A Wreath of Sonnets – France Preseren (one of Slovenia’s great poets) Send but your rays their glory to renew And let me…
Chatting with: Heidi Nam Knudsen, Founder of A Thousand Decisions
Heidi Nam Knudsen is the founder of the A Thousand Decisions, a wine course focusing on natural winemaking and growing methods. She is also the Operations and Wine Director for…
Doug decants: The Ever So ‘Umble Aligote
I am greatly obliged, and I should like it of all things, I assure you; but I am far too umble. There are people enough to tread upon me in…
Doug Does: Slovenia (Day One)
Read Part one (Croatia) HERE. Day Two: As The Slo-Cro Flies As we were driving through Croatia towards Slovenia I reflected on the conundrum about why places that are not…
Wine Controversies: Fashionable debunking and the over-appliance of science…is bunk
Over the past few years we have seen numerous attempts to debunk the rationale behind concepts such as biodynamics, terroir, natural wines and minerality. The spirit of disinterested interrogation is…
Doug Does Croatia
Day One: As The Cro Flies We love a good cliché and to stereotype the wine potential of a country. When you think of Croatia you imagine the grand sweep…
Doug Decants: polOpuesto wines
The Uco valley is a semi-arid desert region in a rain shadow created by the high mass of the Andes range, which blocks the passage of westerly winds that would…
The History of Les Caves de Pyrene in 10 ½ Chapters
Introduction A couple of years ago I was in a San Francisco natural wine bar and proffered my card to pay my tab at the end of the evening. The…
Wine Controversies: Mark Ups in Restaurants? Blame the Bean Counters and the Government
Accountants and purchase managers are employed either to protect margins or ratchet up the gps. This usually entails pressing the supplier for greater discounts, trying to prevent price rises, deferring…
Wine Controversies: Wine writing about what consumers want is bunk
Each one of us is a consumer. We express our choices individually and buy we like, or what we can afford. Wine journalists - and people throughout the wine trade…
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