Wine Writing for Antiquity and The Humdrum Reality
From Ode to Wine – Pablo Neruda Day-coloured wine, night-coloured wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth, wine, smooth as a golden…
Drink good wine, not rocket fuel, which is not rocket science.
My modest proposal is to ask anyone who is involved in the wine trade, be they importers or retailers, sommeliers or bloggers, to take a step back from what they…
Chatting with: Matthew Rorick of Forlorn Hope Wines, California
"At Matthew Rorick Wines, we love the longshots. We love the outsiders, the lost causes, the people/projects/ideas abandoned as not having a chance in the world. Rare creatures from appellations…
Doug Decants: New wines from Arbois, South Africa, and Itata!
Recently Arrivals Nom d’Un Nom d’un Nom d’Un Chien! Playful names to play with: 2015 Straight No Chaser, Hughes Beguet Superb value Arbois blend of Chardonnay and Savagnin from Patrice…
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…
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