Doug Decants: California, Jurancon, Georgia + more!
Vale da Capucha Branco: Composed of 92% Fernão Pires (which is not a cross of Fernando Torres and Robert Pires) and 8% Arinto, hails from Atlantic country in Lisboa, a…
The Real Alternative Wine Glossary: M (Part One)
Macabeo - Myths Macabeo – The Scottish grape. Maceration – Describes the process of drinking wine from lunch through to dinner without a break. Sardonic maceration is when drinking leads…
The Real Wine Fair: Welcome to Flavour Country
Every wine event has its own unique feeling, one animated by the energy of those exhibiting feeding off the moods of those coming to taste. The wines are the further…
Doug’s Decants
Keep your eyes on the wines: 2014 Vin de France, Melonix, Jo Landron This is Melon ++. Melon as in Muscadet. But with a natural malolactic and no sulphur added.…
Small is beautiful…and occasionally annoying
Smart-Allocation Wines “Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.” Thomas Carlyle When demand starts to exceed supply in any walk of life the value…
Chatting with: Sylvie Augereau
Sylvie Augereau is one of France's most prolific wine writers and is a passionate spokesperson for natural wine. Sylvie is the founder of La Dive Bouteille, heralded as the world's largest annual natural wine…
Aussie Awesomesauce
Throw another turkey on the barbie, pin back thy lugs ye figjams and mollydookers cos we’re stoked to announce some serious new true blue grog as we swiftly decant our…
I predict a quiet riot: Forecasting 2016
There is a saying that even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day. Trends, by definition, are rootless and transient, yet wine commentators are often falling over…
Out with the old: Les Caves de P’s 2015
Viennese Swirl In with the Austrians. We began the year with a tasting focusing on some new Austrian agencies being the Styrian wines of Andreas Tscheppe, Sepp Muster and Franz…
The Real Alternative Wine Glossary: L
Label – Luxury Cuvée Label - Never judge a label by its wine. Labels – Did you know that the text on all wine back labels is written by the…
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