Why doesn’t Les Caves de Pyrene carry major brands?
Once upon a time I wrote a short piece for a magazine deploring the banality of corporate jargon in the wine trade. Terms like upsegmentation, channel management, wine margin optimisers,…
Wines of Georgia Tasting in London
This week saw the inaugural Wines of Georgia tasting in London organised by Sarah Abbott of Swirl Wine Group. The Georgian ambassador wrote an introduction for the catalogue explaining the…
Doug Decants: Champers, Sherry, Gramenon and more!
Champagne Pierre Gerbais Grains de Celles Rosé Champagne Pierre Gerbais is a fourth generation domaine in the Aube. It is spearheaded today by the youthful Aurélien Gerbais, a winemaker who…
The Strange Affair of the Missing Wine Mention
Plus a critical case of natural wine vapours... --Doug Wregg Note: these are the opinions of Doug Wregg and do not reflect those of Les Caves de Pyrene as a company. Every…
June is Grower Champagne Month!
Our friends at The Good Wine Shop, in partnership with Les Caves de Pyrene and several other top notch distributors and retailers (as well the excellent Bottled Films), are spearheading…
What the bubbles is Pet Nat?
A Pet Nat (short for pétillant naturel) is a sparkling wine from a single vintage that undergoes a single fermentation. The wine ferments with its own yeast in tank or…
What is orange wine?
Orange is a colour in the wine spectrum. The colour denotes that grapes (which we may normally associate with white wines) have been macerated on their skins – as if…
Real Thanks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=OY6hTsfQF9k The Real Wine Fair 2017 Highlights. Video by Bottled Films. The Real Wine Fair is always a gigantic collaborative effort. As well as a big heart, it requires a…
Taste Slovenia
Towards the end of 2016, our Sir Wregg traipsed across Slovenia tasting the bounty of its most artisan of growers. Fast forwarded to present day we have wines from two…
Georgia on my… palate
Mandili Mtsvane Mandili is a project of Marina Kurtanidze (who is married to Iago Bitarishvili) and Tea Melanashvili. Both women wanted to make a wine that was both Georgian in…
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