Doug Decants: Burgenland & Oregon
Focus on:Â The very good burghers of Burgenland - Andert-Wein PM? Pull the Andert one. They call it Puligny-Montrachet, or PM for short, we call it wine of grape variety of…
The New Eagles Have Landed: Part Two – California
Welcome to our Hotel California, not a palatial guest house, more of a rusty lean-to out back. The philosophy of the growers that we deal with might best be summarised…
The New Eagles Have Landed: Part One – Oregon
In my buyerâs backpack I carry a compass which points to magnetic craziness. The wines donât have to be madly, badly DJ Funkosaurus in the wilderness. They can be beautiful…
Words To The Wine
âI begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.â ~ Virginia Woolf Plundering the pornucopia of…
Doug Decants: Valtellina, a Trio of West Aussies, and Sherry
NEW WINES Les Chiavs de Pyrene have moved into Valtellina Balgera is a boutique winery located in Chiuro, one of the wine growing villages of Valtellina area, in the region…
Artisans of Oz: a round up
And so to the land of Bansky murals, and enough hipsters and bearded baristas to make AA Gill expel the plums moulded to his mouth and break out in hives.…
Drinking Wine, Not Ideology
Simon Woolfâs piece on natural wine in Meininger caused another minor kerfuffle in a carafe in the oenosphere. These articles are always timely in that even though they are written with…
Tasting No-Notes
I stopped writing tasting notes years ago â 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
Itâs not just dog eat dog. Itâs dog doesnât return other dogâs phone calls. (Woody Allen) Morals? Canât afford them guvânor. (Alfred Doolittle, Pygmalion â George Bernard Shaw) Those are…
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