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Les Caves de Pyrene are delighted to announce an en primeur offer for the 2023 vintage of Lost in a Field “Frolic” pét-nat – not just a first for pét-nat,…

Our Sir Wregg is on the Interpreting Wine podcast talking about the Real Wine Fair 2024 (April 28-29th): its origins (and indeed Doug's and Les Caves de Pyrene's origins) as…

  I have been in more than one cab (but not at the same time), and when asked what I did for a living, explained truthfully that I was involved…

Tuscan can do Agricola I Forestieri was born in 2019 as two friends and colleagues decided to embark on their own winemaking journey together. Dario Marinari cut his teeth working…

Written by Barney Wilczak, Distiller & Owner of Capreolus Distillery in England's Cotswolds   As I write, a spiralling thread of liquid runs from the still before me. Inside the…

The wines of Savoie and Jura are often lumped together as issuing from a kind of agglomerated sub-Alpine region. In reality, they are very different in so many ways –…

Bernard Plageoles took the reins, to continue the work of his father Robert, an outspoken advocate for natural wines with a centuries old approach to winemaking. Robert Plageoles had researched…

The new appeal of orange wines The other week Susie and Peter Barrie were kind enough to interview me for their excellent podcast, Wine Blast, the pithy subjection under discussion…

As I am writing this we have just finished draining and pressing our last bunches from the 2023 Harvest.  Both our Red and Pink Pet Nats are in bottle and…

Having stuck a thousand blogs (mille tonnerres) in my back pocket – I am never going to let you forget that stat - it’s time to poke the first verbal…