100 Great Natural Wines: Jura – Part One
Previous posts from our 100 Great Natural Wines series: Intro Austria Savoie Jura ~ Part One This is a series profiling the producers on our list who make natural…
Previous posts from our 100 Great Natural Wines series: Intro Austria Savoie Jura ~ Part One This is a series profiling the producers on our list who make natural…
What’s behind a label? Quite a lot, on occasion. Some vignerons put that extra effort into the design creating a memorable brand identity. There’s often a story or a…
When we talk about the New World we don’t think about Christopher Columbus and Captain Cook and all those would-be circumnavigatory dudes looking to open trade routes new, but countries…
Previous posts from our 100 Great Natural Wines series: Intro Austria Savoie-Faire LE FEU Dominique Belluard Gringet rock The village of Ayze is a little commune in the Haute-Savoie…
Davide Bentivegna, Etnella's founder, having worked for the German company Siemens, left his position to follow his dream to make wine. He had no previous experience or inherited land, so…
A friend said a wine he tried recently was bitter and not properly fermented. Sounds like sour grapes to me. A friend of mine cooks by making up a recipe…
I met a blogger from an antique land Who said: `Two nasty unlabelled bottles of oakjuice Stand on the table. Near them, at the bar, Half sunk, a shattered visage…
Having just received a tranche of Georgian wines it seems timely to remind ourselves what makes these wines unique. Often when we talk about wine we focus – quite rightly…
What constitutes a great wine is always a subjective judgement. Each individual arrives at their own very singular list of best—or favourite—wines. It may that one transformative bottle that you…
There comes a time when you start to believe that the best bottles of wine in your life may well be behind you. This is not a morbid realisation, but…