Doug Decants: Tokaji Aszu 5 Puttonyos
Aszu were with that slow furmint! The undisputed king of Hungarian vineyards, Mount Tokaj is located to the north of the country, 200 km east of Budapest. This legendary location…
The Autobiography of Les Caves de Pyrene. Chapter One Part Two: Mining our South West Origins
Read Part One HERE. [The three musketeers and D’Artagnan are escaping from the Cardinal’s men in his own coach] Porthos: Champagne? Athos: We’re in the middle of a chase, Porthos.…
Is Natural Wine Moral?
We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach. - Bertrand Russell My innate…
The Autobiography of Les Caves de Pyrene. Chapter One: Roots, Lees, Oak and The Blood of the Soil
Free fighters, free lovers, free spend- ers – The Cadets of Gascoyne the de- fenders Of old homes, old names and old splen- dors. --Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac I’m remembering…
Decanting our recent “Restyling Wine” tasting: Part Two
From Old Vines to Decanter by way of Pet Bubbles Read Part One HERE. Old vines denoted wines that have seventy-plus years on the clock. Venerable the vines may…
Doug Decants: The Wines of Le Domaine Plageoles
Tradition is not a return to an obsolete past, but rather the permanence of its origins through time --Frederik Tristan Since 1805, seven generations of the Plageoles family have carried…
Decanting our recent “Restyling Wine” tasting: Part One
A Les Caves tasting with a difference Part One Restyling Wine, our 18th September autumn trade tasting, was a tasting with a slight difference, an attempt to refresh wine…
Chenin: the grape we love (Part Two – Out of South Africa)
Read Part One of our Ode to Chenin Blanc here. Craig Hawkins makes wines in Swartland. His project is called Testalonga El Bandito, wherein he makes a pair of Chenins…
Stefano Bellotti: An Appreciation
Stefano Bellotti understood farming and the language of nature at a fundamental level; He made wines that were wild, long-lived and spoke deeply of their origins. He was the spirit…
Doug decants: The Wines of Cascina Iuli
Fabrizio Iuli grew up (literally) in his mother’s restaurant and used to help out from a very early age. His grandfather had planted some Barbera in the fields behind the…
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