Natural, organic, biodynamic, real wine and the people and places behind them

Doug’s picks Towards the end of the year, I always make a little list of fondly-remembered wines tasted and drunk o’er the past twelve months. It’s always a personal take,…

Rebels with a cause Since the Middle Ages, there have been records about the lieu-dit “le Tue-Boeuf” and its excellent wines which were enjoyed by the local nobility and the…

  John Bojanowski writes  It was driest and hottest and early, Vendanges 24--Tres fort squirrely Beaucoup d'grapes in our baskets We throw'd off our blue maskets Shall be back for…

Home, home again I like to be here when I can And when I come home cold and tired It's good to warm my bones beside the fire Far away…

  If I were to create a woolly word wine cloud to encompass the language I use when talking and writing about wine – and natural wine, in particular -…

When the word drunkenness comes into conversation it has various associations. In my mind’s eye I think of the great Hogarth “Gin Lane” sketch of debauchery and unconsciousness. Or the…