Real Reasons To Be Cheerful – 2017
We’ve all had more than enough of 2016, so let’s look forward to next year and celebrate the impending return of the Real Wine Fair in May 2017. This event…
Nuggetorials #4: The GROSS profit margin
It is truth universally acknowledged but rarely articulated in the trade that a systematic one-size-fits-all % increase is grossly unfair and penalises adventurous drinking. Not only it is counter-intuitive as…
Doug Decants: Italy (Valtellina, Dolomites, Lazio) & Spain (Asturias, Calatayud, Rioja) + more!
As the crazy people of the UK were voting to row away from our continental cousin, we were scouring their vineyards for more goodies. At least if we are going…
Nuggetorials #3: Restaurant reviews and Cooking with sulphur
Restaurant Reviews and the curious case of the missing wine: One might imagine that food and wine were mutually inclusive when describing an experience in a restaurant. If you were…
Nuggetorials #2: Food and wine rules – Not OK
An example of early food and wine matching advice from a wine merchant in (the caves of) Lascaux: Bison with white wine, Mastodon with red wine. --Oberon Kant’s Big Book…
Intimations of Wine Immortality: A Fantastic Five of Rare Wine Beasts
There are wines which are so rare because to make them requires nature to smile on the vineyard and for the vigneron still to feel that the quality of the…
Nuggetorials #1: The banality of wine language
Could the language of wine commerce be any more banal? No, it really couldn’t. From “gatekeepers” through “channel management” to “segmentation” and all those other banal buzzwords bombinating in the…
Doug Decants: Austrian Pet Nats, Stellar Burgundy, and Amphora
New arrivals: Fuchs und Hase Pet Nats in Three Volumes Tis the season to be petty and natty. Weingut Fuchs und Hase (Fox and Hare) is a joint project…
Sauvign-oak?
Victoria Moore's recent article in the Telegraph on oaked Sauvignon Blanc made us think that a blog post on the subject was overdue. So here're our two cents:Â Most commercial…
Real Pagne or Sham Pagne
Can there be such a thing as a natural champagne? Champagne is not only a region but a specific method of winemaking predicated on certain procedures. The main manipulation is…
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