The Stirrings of a UK Wine Culture
Are you curious to know if there a disjunction between London and the rest of the UK in terms of wine taste? Although I am mainly interested in regional attitudes…
Wines of The Sea – The Life of Brine
Wine lists are organised by price, by country/region, by grape variety and in the broadest sense, by style or flavour profile. But when one thinks that wines come from particular…
Doug decants: Judith Beck Welschriesling Bambule!
The Beck winery is a family estate in Gols, in northern Burgenland near lake Neusiedl. Traditionally, there were small mixed farms in the area, but they always grew vines as…
New Arrivals: From Oregon to Croatia, Marlborough to Burgenland!
Oregon trailers Ovum’s Off The Grid Riesling has just rejoined our supply to power your electrifying Riesling needs. Since I Fell For You Gewurz is the latest Traminer to fall…
Ficheing for information
We want information, information, information --The Prisoner There is no substitute for standing in a vineyard and shaking the clay from the soles of your shoes. To share the same…
Doug decants: Franz Weninger Vom Kalk, Burgenland Austria
Just as each wine grower is a unique individual, so too are their vineyards. Franz Weninger insists on expressing the different soil types found throughout Burgenland and uses Blaufrankisch as…
The wine in Strine stays mainly off the plain
The reverse convict boat from Australia docked recently with some convincing grog from our alternative and alliterative artisans. Pat Sullivan has sent us one of his indeterminate gluggers: Jumpin Juice, a…
Dare To Be Different
Original grapes, traditional styles, quirky stories, oddities, curiosities, accidents and a fanatical urge to push the envelope. Mauvais Temps, Nicolas Carmarans, Aveyron A last chance to try the native Negret…
What’s (not) in your wine?
It is symptomatic of the world we live in that we obsess about the niceties of labelling rather than talk about the quality of the contents of a bottle of…
Doug Decants: Vale da Capucha Arinto
The Marques family and their estate, Vale da Capucha, represent the viticultural renaissance that the Lisboa DO has experienced over the last decade. Having grown fruit for bulk wine production…
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