The Real Alternative Wine Glossary: B
Bandwagon to Burgundy Bandwagon - ‘If you see a bandwagon, it’s too late’ said Sir James Goldsmith. Unfortunately, too many bandwagons rumble on flattening everything in their path. The frenzied…
The Real Alternative Wine Glossary: A
Behind the winespeak If you really want to know your Alsace from your Elbling here is a sideways squint at the real meaning beneath the language of wine… ABC -…
The Ethos of Taste
A Guest Post by Arnold Waldstein Arnold is a marketing and business strategist, blogger, wine geek and New Yorker. He has been drinking, thinking and writing about Natural Wines every…
Revving up the Revolution: Part Two
A little bit of Jekyll, a little bit of Hyde – Rory Gallagher I can’t second guess the intention of an amorphous group of critics and commentators any more than they…
Dancing Angels and the Joy of Wine
Rather than spending their lives defending nomenclature, delving into semantic nuances and untangling gossamer philosophical niceties, natural wine drinkers – copains & copines alike - drink wine. Which seems the…
Revving up the Revolution: Part One
When I first became interested in wine I was instructed to taste in a certain way, to break wine down into its constituent parts and to assess analytically (and dismissively).…
We’ve got a not-so-little-list
“The list is the origin of culture. It’s part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order.”…
Thoughts on Tasting and Tasters
Looking at the glass-twitchers, sniffers and slurpers at a recent Les Caves de Pyrene tasting made me think that tasting is as much about mood as anything. The more generic…
So you don’t like natural wines – help is at hand!
A guest post by Jamie Goode Jamie Goode is a London-based wine writer who is currently wine columnist with UK national newspaper The Sunday Express. He contributes regularly to a range of…
Austria and Oregon: random thoughts on recent buying trips. Part 2
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but is particularly indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less…