All you needed to know about Oregon: Part One – Pinot Noir and life beyond
Oregon produces quite a small amount of wine but an awful lot of noise. Which is not at all to say that the state's wine industry is overrun by brash…
Doug Decants: Award-winning Saffas, Sherry-not-Sherry, New Slovenians, Matassa, Commando G + More!
Elgin Ridge Takes Top Gold! Elgin Ridge Chaos White 2016 (98 points) wins top gold at theĀ International Organic Wine Awards! We will have our tiny allocation of this biodynamically farmed…
Oregon Tale
I have just returned from Oregon Pinot Camp. This event has been organised annually since 2000. Approximately 270 members of the wine trade from the US - plus a smaller…
Words to the Wine: Part Three
Yet MORE twinkling English dialect words that might invigorate the tedious repetitions and formulations of wine-tasting descriptions. Iām not saying that they are remotely appropriate or that you have to…
Will global warming make wines more alcoholic?
Global warming presents a vast array of challenges for the vine grower. It is not just that certain regions are becoming hotter, but that extreme weather events are becoming more…
Why doesnāt Les Caves de Pyrene carry major brands?
Once upon a time I wrote a short piece for a magazine deploring the banality of corporate jargon in the wine trade. Terms like upsegmentation, channel management, wine margin optimisers,…
Wines of Georgia Tasting in London
This week saw the inaugural Wines of Georgia tasting in London organised by Sarah Abbott of Swirl Wine Group. The Georgian ambassador wrote an introduction for the catalogue explaining the…
Doug Decants: Champers, Sherry, Gramenon and more!
Champagne Pierre Gerbais Grains de Celles RosĆ© Champagne Pierre Gerbais is a fourth generation domaine in the Aube. It is spearheaded today by the youthful AurĆ©lien Gerbais, a winemaker who…
The Strange Affair of the Missing Wine Mention
Plus a critical case of natural wine vapours... --Doug Wregg Note: these are theĀ opinionsĀ of Doug Wregg and do not reflect those of Les Caves de Pyrene as a company. Every…
June is Grower Champagne Month!
Our friends at The Good Wine Shop, in partnership with Les Caves de Pyrene and several other top notch distributors and retailers (as well the excellent Bottled Films), are spearheading…
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