Kamptal Journey: Part 2 – M & A Arndorfer
Growing up in the vineyards and cellar of his parents’ estate in Strass, Martin Arndorfer comes from a long line of winemakers. Anna Steininger is the daughter of one of…
Kamptal Journey: Part One – Intro & tasting with Matthias Warnung
Welcome to Kamptal, the northernmost of three important virtually contiguous wine regions in Niederösterreich (and the largest in surface area and production), the others being Kremstal and Wachau. There is…
New Wines: France
La Nouvelle et La Belle With the brouhaha surrounding our new Spanish & Italian interlopers confidently twirling their moustachioes you would be forgiven to speculate that we had forgotten about…
‘Outliers’ – The Australian Wine Paradigm Shift
This post first appeared on The Wine Idealist blog. View the original HERE. A few years ago the vigneron-group Natural Selection Theory (NST), comprising three growers, submitted a wine called NST Project Egg…
New Wines!
The Gain in Spain is mainly in the mountains Despite the flowers peeking through the earth, spring hasn’t even officially sprung yet we are hearing the first cheep-cheep (and less…
Ugly Wine Words: Part Two
Reposted from July 2014 Read Part One HERE PEEP JARGON Consultants of swing? Bespoke Service, or “service” as it should be called, is offered by consultants to differentiate their efforts…
Ugly Wine Words: Part One
Reposted from July 2014 Vinonsense We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon. --William Zinsser Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of…
South African Mini Wine Odyssey – Part Two
Day Two Gentle advice for those who talk about natural wine This much I know: always give a talk whilst suffering from mild jet lag, the equivalent state of gentle…
Chatting with Sebastian De Martino
1. What attracted you to Itata initially - had you ever tasted wines from this region? What attracted us was its history (quite unknown and mysterious even), the southern location (high…
Itata and the roots of Chilean wine
I am indebted to the De Martino family for their research into this fascinating region of Chile. It is fair to say that they rediscovered its potential as part of…
South African Mini Wine Odyssey – Part One
Craig Hawkins & Testalonga As the aircraft sashays towards Cape Town you get a glimpse of the muscular beauty of this slice of Africa. The city itself is expanding confidently,…
The Point of Points: Part 3
The Nature of Wine Tasting Many dozens of books have fully explored the mechanics of taste, its fixities and definites, and there are numerous systems to codify or judge these.…
The Point of Points: Part 2
Phile under Pinot I’m sure Pinot’s musky quality directly stimulates the part of the brain that processes sensuality yet I’ve had more unfulfilling encounters with this grape than I care…
The Point of Points: Part 1
Originally posted April 2013 Of pointyheads, pulse-quickeners & phoeno-types Compare this, rank that, analyse to the nth degree – the more you reduce wine to numbers the less you understand…
Notes From The Undersoil (or How to Enjoy Wine)
“I had that Bertrand Russell in the back of my cab once. So I asked him, “Well, Mr Russell, what’s it all about?” And do you know – he couldn’t…
The World According To Grape
“I am a possibilist. I believe that humanity is master of its own fate… Before we can change direction, we have to question many of the assumptions underlying our current…
The Future’s Bright, The Future’s Artisan
At the beginning of each year I don an oenomancer’s spangly pointed hat, decant a colfondo Prosecco, examine the true lies of its wiggly wine sediment, sniff the prevailing wine…
Wine au Naturel podcast: an audio interview with Anna Martens
Ever wondered who the Anna is behind 'Vino di Anna', a label which, despite tiny quantities, has made its way onto the shelves and menus of many of the world's…
Returning Georgians and Lesser-Spotted Schuellers
Georgia –back to the future again As a country Georgia has been in our hearts and minds for several years. And you can't discuss Georgian wines without putting them into…
Old Australians and New Austrians
Retreat, Australians Fair In October 2014 we were delighted to welcome three of our Australian growers – Anton von Klopper, Tom Shobbrook and Pat Sullivan – who embarked on two…
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