Doug Decants: Le Mat du Raisin, Cascina degli Ulivi, Piemonte
Ilaria Romano (nĂ©e Bellotti) has taken over the running of this estate and the wines are as brilliant and energetic as ever. The white wines stood out at this yearâs…
Ilaria Romano (nĂ©e Bellotti) has taken over the running of this estate and the wines are as brilliant and energetic as ever. The white wines stood out at this yearâs…
Yeah strawberries⊠not the cheese Pinot Noir? Hardest game in the world, as Archie from The Fast Show might have opined. Or opinoted. Pinot Noir, the eternal seductress, that most…
Christmas comes but once a year, but with shipping delays, US wines seem to arrive every other year. On a wing and a prayer rather than a ship. Rarer than…
Pass the Marcie-yak Marcillac, on the Aveyron river just north west of Rodez, is linked historically to the Abbey of Conques and is the only appellation in the Aveyron…
If 2020 was the strangest of all possible worlds, then 2021 was the worst of times. As if that annus horribilis hadnât left a foul enough taste in the…
Organics is now more than a mere buzzword and a marketing hook, it is truly founded on the idea that quality is paramount, and that the better the farming (be…
A wine to knock you on your Chasselas! After half a lifetime abroad, Davide Bentivegna decided to return to his roots. Originally from the hills outside of Catania, he began…
Emotion recollected in tranquillity is like a fine vintage wine. As Wordsworth didnât say. The Real Wine Fair, vintage 2019, was a special event. All editions of the fair…
Phil Barnet, Phil B, is hanging up his metaphorical corkscrew after sixteen years of stout yeoman service with the Caves-sters. It is a fact universally acknowledged that the character of…
It is difficult to date the exact moment that a natural wine culture was born in this country. Although when I hear the word âcultureâ I release the safety corks…