Bad Moon Rising
I’m not sure which day on the Marie Thun calendar the treatise Expectation or Sensorial Reality? An Empirical Investigation of the Biodynamic Calendar for Wine Drinkers…,by Wendy V. Parr, Dominique…
Fashionable debunking and the over-appliance of science
Ignoramus et ignorabimus 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…
The Thin Veneer of Civility: Non-Wine Thoughts for 2017
--by Doug Wregg We are puppets, Man in his pride, and Beauty fair in her flower; Do we move ourselves, or are moved by an unseen hand at a game…
Christmas Wines!
The perfect wines to crack open this holiday season:BUBBLES Val Frison Lalore Blanc de Blancs, Champagne Because you’re special: Lalore is Val Frison’s pure Chardonnay from the Aube – its…
2016 in a grape pip
Brief remembrance of wine times past… It was the worst of times, it was the best of wines. The biggest ever Real Wine Fair took place in April 2016, 160…
Real Reasons To Be Cheerful – 2017
We’ve all had more than enough of 2016, so let’s look forward to next year and celebrate the impending return of the Real Wine Fair in May 2017. This event…
Nuggetorials #4: The GROSS profit margin
It is truth universally acknowledged but rarely articulated in the trade that a systematic one-size-fits-all % increase is grossly unfair and penalises adventurous drinking. Not only it is counter-intuitive as…
Doug Decants: Italy (Valtellina, Dolomites, Lazio) & Spain (Asturias, Calatayud, Rioja) + more!
As the crazy people of the UK were voting to row away from our continental cousin, we were scouring their vineyards for more goodies. At least if we are going…
Nuggetorials #3: Restaurant reviews and Cooking with sulphur
Restaurant Reviews and the curious case of the missing wine: One might imagine that food and wine were mutually inclusive when describing an experience in a restaurant. If you were…
Nuggetorials #2: Food and wine rules – Not OK
An example of early food and wine matching advice from a wine merchant in (the caves of) Lascaux: Bison with white wine, Mastodon with red wine. --Oberon Kant’s Big Book…
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