Tasting No-Notes
I stopped writing tasting notes years ago – not sure whether it was out of laziness or ennui, or whether it suddenly simply seemed trite to reduce a wine to…
When the Wine Tastes You
What are the most important factors that affect the way you taste wine? Is it the inherent quality of the wine itself and its potential to communicate itself lucidly? Do…
Wine and The Golden Rule of Business
It’s not just dog eat dog. It’s dog doesn’t return other dog’s phone calls. (Woody Allen) Morals? Can’t afford them guv’nor. (Alfred Doolittle, Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw) Those are…
A Treading of Grapes
For all our friends in the northern hemisphere who are gathering grapes in vineyards or toiling in their cellars… The Vine – ‘Cometh the full grape cluster on the vine.…
Upcoming Tastings: September/October 2016
Sherry Amour – Trade tasting Date: Monday 12th September 2016 Time: 10.30am - 5.00pm Venue: OXO2, Bargehouse Street, London, SE1 9PH Catch up with Les Cavistes on table 17 where…
Coming soon…Another Occhipinti – no, Andrea Occhipinti
This estate is based on the slopes surrounding the Volcanic lake of Bolsena; the region is part of Maremma (called “Tuscia” in Lazio), about 15 minutes’ drive from the Tuscan…
Six September Recommendations
September, officially the beginning of autumn… Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver …
More Natural Nomenclature
Non-Definitive Definitions Natural wine, as I may have previously written ad nauseam, is a relative term, embracing a wide variety of criteria. Nevertheless we might broadly agree on those specific…
Var Var Voom: Meeting Jean-Christophe Comor of Les Terres Promises, Provence
Provence is without doubt a spectacularly beautiful region of France speckled with myriad vineyards. Yet, as regional French specialists, we have always struggled to discover captivating terroir-driven wines outside the…
The Vermont Vintner: 32 hours with America’s most unlikely winemaker
-by Christina Pickard Note: a version of this piece originally appeared on Food & Wine. “Most of my stories start with this notion, ‘I never imagined...,’ or ‘Twenty years ago, I never…
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