Austria and Oregon: random thoughts on recent buying trips
Part One â Roots âOur native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.â --The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the…
A revolutionary wine survey about wine surveys: our trends
A revolutionary wine survey about wine surveys has once again exposed the vast chasm in our knowledge about the drinking habits of Joe and Joanna public and thereby pointed out…
Everything you need to know about Oregon wine…
Portland A little local colour never comes amiss, so I will describe it as blandly and monochromatically as possible. Portland lies in the Marine west coast climate region, marked by…
Oregon: Part two – the heart and soul of biodynamics
Moe Momtazi and the heart and soul of biodynamics People must learn once more to âthinkâ the spiritual âtogether withâ the course of nature. It is not admissible today for…
Oregon: Part One
Kelley Fox and her beautiful wines. One of the greatest lessons I have learned about real wine is that you canât push it around. Raiding the alms-basket of words and…
AA Guimaro: El loco viticultura
You donât have to be crazy to work here â but it helps In Ribeira Sacra, the Guimaro family own 9 hectares, and control another 14 hectares leased from various…
Jean-Pierre Robinot: the wild man of LâAngevin
A guest post by Fiona Beckett Fiona is an award-winning food and drink journalist and author - or co-author - of 23 books. She writes a weekly wine column for…
Construct your own Frankenwine
Nature may be a pretty lass, but she is also pretty scruffy. Here are some delightful beauty tips brought to you by the those caring folks at the Laboratory of…
AniVile: A new marketing arm for Vin de France
A guest post by Alice Feiring. Check out her blog and subscribe to her newsletter, The Feiring Line! Note: we recommend having a read of this article first, to put…
Of Place And Time â The Future of Australian Wine
A guest post by thewineidealist: In evolutionary biology, punctuated equilibrium theory states, âthat most species once formed will exhibit little net evolutionary change for most of their geological history, remaining in an extended state of stasis.â…