Diary of a UK Wine Harvest: Woodfine Wine, Part 2
November / Harvest All of the wines and ciders are now a'slumber: in barrel, steel tank, plastic and glass. They are settling out and stabilising post-fermentation. Some appear to…
November / Harvest All of the wines and ciders are now a'slumber: in barrel, steel tank, plastic and glass. They are settling out and stabilising post-fermentation. Some appear to…
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 -…
We caught up with Ben Walgate at Tillingham, in East Sussex, and discussed how the 2022 harvest has gone as well as more generally how things are going at Peasmarsh.…
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…
When the Kioutsoukis family migrated from East Romylia in the early 1900’s, a region at the Black Sea coast well known for its wine to Greece, they carried with them…
A bottle of wine amounts to the framing of countless choices. It does not even have to be a bottle – a key keg, a pouch or a can may…
Making the delta an alpha The region which we now refer to as the Costières de NĂ®mes boasts a viticultural history going back several centuries BCE when the Greeks were…
A tale of heat and drought Maison Cazottes As you probably know, this year was particularly hot and dry. From January to October we had a total of 384 mm…
“Real Pagne” Nestled in Damery, just a few kilometres from Épernay, Maison Maurice Choppin has been working the unique terroirs of the Marne Valley for more than seven generations.…
Sparkling new adventures in “Corpinnat-shire” Bufadors (the name “Bufadors” refers to the Puig dels Bufadors, the hills of the Black Mountain of CadaquĂ©s), is a new label created by Ton…