Doug Decants: Georgas Retsina, Greece
Buy me brandy, A snifter of wine. Who am I kidding? I'll drink turpentine. Barney Gumble, 'A Boozehound Named Barney', The Simpson's (a parody of 'Feed The Birds' from The…
Unicorn Wines: Part Three
Unicornucopia! There are wines which are so rare because to make them requires nature to smile on the vineyard, or for the vigneron to feel that the quality of the…
Of Cult and Icon Wines
Petrus – What is the wine about? Imagine a cathedral lit with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently placed, intensely there,…
Unicorn Wines: Part Two
Unicornucopia! There are wines which are so rare because to make them requires nature to smile on the vineyard, or for the vigneron to feel that the quality of the…
Doug decants: The Wines of Antonino Caravaglio
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher things within us. -Novalis The history of artisanal winemaking in the Aeolian Islands off the…
The Natural Wine Idioticon
A is for additives such as acidification. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it and if it is broke if the fault of the way the wine is made in…
A Pocketful of Natural Wines near Rye
This is a follow up to the recent Q & A with Ben Walgate of Tillingham (which is the name of Ben’s nascent wine project in East Sussex). Outside of…
Nouveau Nouveau: Christina Rasmussen
Bojo Nouveau is vieux chapeau, n’est-ce pas? By no means! Christina Rasmussen describes how we are falling in love with a new style of new juice. Christina works as wine…
Doug decants: The Wines of Didier Barral (Faugères)
I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. –Henry David Thoreau This Renaissance man, naturalist, and biodynamic…
Unicorn Wines: Part One
Unicornucopia! There are wines which are so rare because to make them requires nature to smile on the vineyard, or for the vigneron to feel that the quality of the…
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