Phwoarr wines at FUOR

The wines were singing like a nest of canaries…

Posted by Virginie on 11-Mar-2010. Click here to read the full article

A round up of newbies and slightly oldbies

The English have an expression: Ta-ta for now. At Les Caves we say Buy-buy for now

Posted by Doug on 07-Mar-2010. Click here to read the full article

Low Ugh-ahol wines

What won’t they think of next?

Posted by Doug on 06-Mar-2010. Click here to read the full article

Survey cobblers

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?  (Steven Wright). If you had a million surveys on the same subject you would see space curve in on itself.

Posted by Doug on 04-Mar-2010. Click here to read the full article

Jose Miguel Viu writes

In the aftermath of the earthquake…

Posted by Doug on 03-Mar-2010. Click here to read the full article

The lovely Kate Thal destresses with some nice wines at Green & Blue

Kate, Jude and the Green & Blue crew come to Terroirs for a tasting and some deserved lunchtime R & R…

Posted by Doug on 03-Mar-2010. Click here to read the full article

Stranger than fiction

Le vrai con…

Posted by Doug on 02-Mar-2010. Click here to read the full article

A bevy of wines on form

Variety is the spice of life…

Posted by Doug on 27-Feb-2010. Click here to read the full article

Gilbourg and Foufoune - lovely Chenin and lively Syrah

I’ve been sticking to a diet of natural wines…

Posted by Doug on 27-Feb-2010. Click here to read the full article

Monsieur Le Sauvage finds some nice surprises lurking at the shallow end

Inexpensive and definitely cheerful…

Posted by Doug on 25-Feb-2010. Click here to read the full article

Crumbling wine columns

The Observer puts its brain on hold with a daft editorial decision…

Posted by Doug on 24-Feb-2010. Click here to read the full article

Alvas Bianco - another amber nectar

The seven white grape wonder of the world (or Sardinia at least)…

Posted by Doug on 23-Feb-2010. Click here to read the full article

Pivoine by Herve Villemade. Because you’re worth it

Climb into this Cot with alacrity…

Posted by Doug on 22-Feb-2010. Click here to read the full article

Wine Intelligence melts our minds with their China syndrome

Stating the obvious semillon-sauvignon…

Posted by Doug on 20-Feb-2010. Click here to read the full article

Shining Chenin part umpteen and sundry lovelies

Regardless of root or fruit these little numbers were rootin’ tootin’…

Posted by Doug on 19-Feb-2010. Click here to read the full article

Gallo, gallo, gallo, what’s all this then?

Pee No More from the Languedoc…

Posted by Doug on 20-Feb-2010. Click here to read the full article

Call that a Pergola….. this is a Pergola!!

A snowy postcard from Campania.....

Oh and some pergola vines.

Posted by Paul on 18-Feb-2010. Click here to read the full article

“Pressing matters” for Olivier C

The Cousin clan wish you grape expectations for 2010

Posted by Paul on 18-Feb-2010. Click here to read the full article

Old wine news

What will those archaeologists dig up next?

Posted by Doug on 23-Feb-2010. Click here to read the full article

Who needs wine when you’ve got labels?

I read it on the grape vine…

Posted by Doug on 16-Feb-2010. Click here to read the full article

Dead Pinot Grigio and Faugeres bears

Where there is muck there’s dross, but then your faith can be restored…

Posted by Doug on 12-Feb-2010. Click here to read the full article

Hildalgo sherries and food by Fiona Beckett

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The conversion goes on…

Posted by Doug on 16-Feb-2010. Click here to read the full article

Panevino - natural goodness

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Nostalgic over nuraghi? Drink some Panevino…

Posted by Doug on 16-Feb-2010. Click here to read the full article

Packing in the Sardinian grapes

Grape detectives - prick up thine ears…

Posted by Doug on 08-Feb-2010. Click here to read the full article

Of wines that keep going and a tasting amongst the dreaming spires

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Nice quads!

Posted by Doug on 16-Feb-2010. Click here to read the full article

Tim’s Hildalgo tasting notes

It’s largely “sherry amour"…

Posted by Doug on 01-Feb-2010. Click here to read the full article

Crozes-Hermitage, Dard et Ribo

Crozes are red…

Posted by Doug on 22-Feb-2010. Click here to read the full article

The wines are singing in 2010

These are the scores that are fit to print.

Posted by Doug on 25-Jan-2010. Click here to read the full article

South Pack and Australian Terroirism - Tim give the lowdown

Out of tiny acorns funky wine movements doth grow…

Posted by Doug on 22-Jan-2010. Click here to read the full article

A tricky time for NZ wines

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Posted by Doug on 16-Feb-2010. Click here to read the full article

The Wine Detective (Sarah Ahmed) sleuths out some excellent Riesling

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Posted by Doug on 18-Jan-2010. Click here to read the full article

Mas Hauvette reviewed by Jamie Goode

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Do not fret, it’s not a crisis
But this wine has Brettanomyces

Posted by Doug on 08-Jan-2010. Click here to read the full article

Thierry Puzelat’s fantastic Romorantin

So good I may have to frame my tongue…

Posted by Doug on 07-Jan-2010. Click here to read the full article

Puzelat’s Le Rouge et Mis

The less fashionable Pinot…

Posted by Doug on 06-Jan-2010. Click here to read the full article

So long 2009

Bigger, badder and better…

Posted by Doug on 03-Jan-2010. Click here to read the full article

Bouquets and Brickbats for 2009

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…

Posted by Doug on 29-Dec-2009. Click here to read the full article

Rootin’ day in Tootin’

A fabulous array of wines, but the gods of biodynamie were in mischevious mood…

Posted by Doug on 22-Dec-2009. Click here to read the full article

Doug’s Top Ten Wines of 2009

The highlights of a year’s carousing…

Posted by Doug on 18-Dec-2009. Click here to read the full article

Fino, Fiano and Dolcetto - news of new booze

An aperitif or three then a pair of real humdingers from either end of Italy (made by the same winemaker)…

Posted by Doug on 18-Dec-2009. Click here to read the full article

What is truth in wine? said jesting Pilate

Kramer vs orthodoxy…

Posted by Doug on 15-Dec-2009. Click here to read the full article

Massa Vecchia Bianco - a fan pays tribute…

Seditiously delicious…

Posted by Doug on 10-Dec-2009. Click here to read the full article

Jamie reviews Podere Le Boncie Chianti Classico

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Sanguine about Sangiovese…

Posted by Doug on 08-Dec-2009. Click here to read the full article

A delicious dinner with Kate and Jude

Of friendship, a feast of curry, sublime wine - the best antidote to mediocrity…

Posted by Doug on 06-Dec-2009. Click here to read the full article

Grandes Jorasses - A chip off the old (Mont Blanc) glacier

Belluard makes a belting Roussette de Savoie…

Posted by Doug on 03-Dec-2009. Click here to read the full article

Customers who know the price of some things and the value of nothing

Why it is time once again to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative after a few beefs against the wine list (and wines) at Terroirs…

Posted by Doug on 03-Dec-2009. Click here to read the full article

More self-referential blogging about blogging

Yer damned if you do and yer damned if you don’t…

Posted by Doug on 03-Dec-2009. Click here to read the full article

Clos Fantine Faugeres - natural goodness

Nowt taken out - a heck of a lot in there…

Posted by Doug on 01-Dec-2009. Click here to read the full article

Round up of recent arrivals

Stay tuned for more newbies…

Posted by Doug on 06-Dec-2009. Click here to read the full article

Framingham Noble Riesling ‘Ere We Come?

Just dessert wines…

Posted by Doug on 27-Nov-2009. Click here to read the full article

Touvien, Cantina di Barro

This wine wants to be your friend…

Posted by Doug on 26-Nov-2009. Click here to read the full article

The art of tasting

Most people can’t taste… discuss

Posted by Doug on 01-Dec-2009. Click here to read the full article

The rise of neo-prohibitionism

Bad social science leads to crass short-termism…

Posted by Doug on 27-Nov-2009. Click here to read the full article

New Releases Tasting - Part One

Contented wines at The Contented Vine…

Posted by Doug on 06-Dec-2009. Click here to read the full article

Blithering tweetertwits

Let’s not forget the scribblative and babblative arts…

Posted by Doug on 12-Nov-2009. Click here to read the full article

Cute Savvy and perky Pinot

Un petit de Bourgeois…

Posted by Doug on 11-Nov-2009. Click here to read the full article

Tasting and postponing judgement

Not starting as you mean to drink on…

Posted by Doug on 06-Nov-2009. Click here to read the full article

Consultancy - A Curate’s Egg

The good, the bad and the otherwise…

Posted by Doug on 05-Nov-2009. Click here to read the full article

Barbera Trinchero 2003

Back in the groove…

Posted by Doug on 04-Nov-2009. Click here to read the full article

Tea’s up with the Rare Tea Company

News of the brews…

Posted by Doug on 02-Nov-2009. Click here to read the full article

Autumn blues…greens, reds, and browns

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Let’s get Keatsian…

Posted by Doug on 02-Nov-2009. Click here to read the full article

Satellites and terroir

Space bunkum?

Posted by Doug on 31-Oct-2009. Click here to read the full article

Sunshine in a bowl - chicken and chorizo stew with Roussillon red

Guess what’s knocking around in my fridge?

Posted by Doug on 28-Oct-2009. Click here to read the full article

Better Red from Med

Taste the terroir in these three bold reds…

Posted by Doug on 28-Oct-2009. Click here to read the full article

Eric Asimov tells it like it is

You can be your own judge and jura…

Posted by Doug on 27-Oct-2009. Click here to read the full article

Abouriou Elian da Ros

Let the funk begin…

Posted by Doug on 24-Oct-2009. Click here to read the full article

More about restaurant wine lists

It was the best of wine lists, it was the worst of wine lists…

Posted by Doug on 23-Oct-2009. Click here to read the full article

Birthday drinks

Every one a bullseye.

Posted by Doug on 19-Oct-2009. Click here to read the full article

The need for greed

Foster’s – The Australian for Whine…

Posted by Doug on 18-Oct-2009. Click here to read the full article

News that’s fit to print?

You’d better believe it.

Posted by Doug on 16-Oct-2009. Click here to read the full article

Briseau’s Long Vines

Yes, of course, that’s exactly what it tastes like!

Posted by Doug on 16-Oct-2009. Click here to read the full article

Good food, good wine, good company at The Ledbury

It is as good as it sounds…

Posted by Doug on 16-Oct-2009. Click here to read the full article

Think pink bubbly Gamay

Another vin du soif…

Posted by Doug on 14-Oct-2009. Click here to read the full article

Smell this!

Reduction in wine? Not all it’s cracked down to be…

Posted by Doug on 11-Oct-2009. Click here to read the full article

Sylvain Martinez: Shining Chenin - part umpteen

Anj-who?

Posted by Doug on 11-Oct-2009. Click here to read the full article

You are a critic; I have good taste. Discuss.

Ramble on…

Posted by Doug on 11-Oct-2009. Click here to read the full article

Hi-Lo alcohol

Getting it right in the vineyard is better than any number of spinning cones…

Posted by Doug on 04-Oct-2009. Click here to read the full article

Latest tasting notes

Yes - it was a flower day.

Posted by Doug on 03-Oct-2009. Click here to read the full article

Wine Empire Building

Bigger is… bigger…

Posted by Doug on 30-Sep-2009. Click here to read the full article

Natural Wines Revisited - Not The Last Word

Wild thing(s)
You make my heart sing

Posted by Doug on 27-Sep-2009. Click here to read the full article

Of Jurancon, Madeleines and Memories

Don’t say Proustian. Oh you did… too late then.

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Posted by Doug on 20-Sep-2009. Click here to read the full article

Curry favourite

Chenin with Channa Dhal?  P’rhaps…

Posted by Doug on 20-Sep-2009. Click here to read the full article

Random thoughts on blogging and science

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DW unclogs his blogs, opens his wardrobe and takes out some haranguers…

Posted by Doug on 26-Sep-2009. Click here to read the full article

Tim goes South

Mr Wildman takes a posse to the South of France to fatten them up for winter. Stopping at Clos de Gravillas, Ollieux Romanis, Mas de Daumas Gassac and Domaine d’Aupilhac

Posted by Paul on 25-Sep-2009. Click here to read the full article

Causality for Minerality

Suck those stones and see…

Posted by Doug on 16-Sep-2009. Click here to read the full article

Ruminations on Blackpool Promenade

Some gross generalisations…

Posted by Doug on 16-Sep-2009. Click here to read the full article

Pirates ahoy

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Posted by Doug on 14-Sep-2009. Click here to read the full article

A week in wine

Live a little, liver lot…

Posted by Doug on 13-Sep-2009. Click here to read the full article

The Twittering Classes - Les Caves Gets Techno

The rockers get modern…

Posted by Doug on 16-Sep-2009. Click here to read the full article

Pi-not thanks!

And the best Pinot Noir, according to the Decanter trophy awards, is from…

Posted by Doug on 10-Sep-2009. Click here to read the full article

Emilio explains the difference between Albarino and Savagnin

So there you have it…

Posted by Doug on 10-Sep-2009. Click here to read the full article

The stories behind the headlines

You couldn’t make it up…

Posted by Doug on 06-Sep-2009. Click here to read the full article

CdP at the International Wine Challenge

And the winner is…

2009 Specialist Merchant of the Year - Regional France
2009 Specialist Merchant of the Year - Loire
2009 Regional Merchant of the Year - South East England
2009 Specialist Merchant of the Year - Italy (Commended)
2009 Wine List of the Year (Commended)
2009 On-Trade Merchant of the Year (Commended)

Posted by Doug on 07-Sep-2009. Click here to read the full article

Paul rediscovers a lost wine

It’s full of Gasconicity!

Posted by Doug on 04-Sep-2009. Click here to read the full article

Return to terroir

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Yes, all you naysayers, it exists…

Posted by Doug on 07-Sep-2009. Click here to read the full article

Take five (wines) with Kate and Jude in Queen’s Park

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Feeling savvy… a day with friends, food and mainly Chenin....

Posted by Doug on 03-Sep-2009. Click here to read the full article

Teran-osaurus Rex!

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Zidarich bloody red tastes bloody good…

Posted by Doug on 03-Sep-2009. Click here to read the full article

The truth is out there somewhere

It’s happening all around us…

Posted by Doug on 27-Aug-2009. Click here to read the full article

Derain-Derain

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A natural red Burgundy…

Posted by Doug on 27-Aug-2009. Click here to read the full article

Cot and spicy

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Some venison, Nahm-style, and some trustworthy Malbec…

Posted by Doug on 03-Sep-2009. Click here to read the full article

The Silly Season - Some News Stories You May Have Missed

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Every word is true up to a point, Lord Copper…

Posted by Doug on 30-Aug-2009. Click here to read the full article

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