Jasnieres and Montlouis - the Chenin ring of confidence

Two Chenins with classy chassis…

Posted by Doug on 28-Aug-2010. Click here to read the full article

Fram-a-lam-a-ding-a-ling

Good Framingham vibes…

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

Thoughts on note taking and wine writing

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

A trip to Sokol Blosser in Oregon

Oregon accumulator - with apologies to Hawkwind.

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

Big fish eats medium size fish

Big wine companies are still vying with each other to bolt on new business by any means. At what cost identity…

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

Doffing my hattie to the Gatti red

This is the best Raboso I have ever tasted. This is the only Raboso I have ever tasted…

Posted by Doug on 13-Aug-2010. Click here to read the full article

Prosecco sur lie Gatti

A joyous fizz to stimulate some purple prose(cco)…

Posted by Doug on 10-Aug-2010. Click here to read the full article

Happy Hebridean hols

Harris - paradise refrigerated…

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

Natural wine listing at Terroirs for Observer Food Monthly

Another batch of natch…

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

Reds can be the new roses

Freshen up those ruby-reds…

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

Nosh and slosh at Terroirs

A sextet of vinous pearls…

Posted by Doug on 14-Jul-2010. Click here to read the full article

Bubbling over - a full fizzical examination

Champagne versus Pet Nat. Which is better? There’s only one way to find out. FIGHT!!!!

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

La Luce is on the loose

Fourth time lucky and then patience (and faith) is rewarded…

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

Yummy-scrummy Mauzac Noir from Plageoles

Take one obscure grape variety…

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

Rebranding French wine

Bog standard mentality…

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

Definitive Italian Tasting

Green, amber and the odd red wines… and some real stormers…

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

Chateau Butlins

Camp culture…

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

More news headlines

In vino veritas…

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

New luxury hotel opens in Rioja - The Eagles pen a song

With apologies…

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

Beaujolais-palooza!

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

Laughing all the way to the Barranco

Obscure maybe, but this Spanish natural vin jaune tastealike certainly reaches the heights…

Posted by Doug on 21-Jun-2010. Click here to read the full article

Definiton of natural wine

Put these grapevine clippings in your pipe and smoke it…

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

Actual new stories

You couldn’t make it up - could you?

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

More natural meanderings…

Some thoughts in no particular order…

Posted by Doug on 13-Jul-2010. Click here to read the full article

The Mousseux is on the loose

Pinky is perky…

Posted by Doug on 17-Jun-2010. Click here to read the full article

Boundary between spring and summer

I kick off the Chateau Boundary wine club…

Posted by Doug on 17-Jun-2010. Click here to read the full article

I Vigneri by Salvo Foti

High on a volcano was a lonely goatherd…

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

Cauzon Blanco

An exceptional white Granada white…

Posted by Doug on 11-Jun-2010. Click here to read the full article

A beautiful red from Granada

Well above the plain in Spain. An altitude wine with attitude…

Posted by Doug on 09-Jun-2010. Click here to read the full article

Summer List 2010 - reasons to be cheerful

More is… more

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

A Saint-Chinian with excellent chi

Nom de chinian!

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

Mullineux wines - Swartland beauts

A Rhone-like white and a fabulous straw wine…

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

Two gems from curry night chez moi - Dard Crozes & Buisson Pouilleux

Nineteen, twenty - our glasses were quickly empty…

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

Kaiton from Pliger and Montevertine

Plu-perfection!

Posted by Doug on 21-May-2010. Click here to read the full article

Irouleguy Blanc Hegoxuri - Basqueing in Glory

The wine that had everything - and a bit extra - on the day…

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

Luna toons

Grape art…

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

Supermarket sweeping discounts - deal or no deal?

The nature of the game…

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

Tim Atkin reviews some natural wines in the Times

Wines with a high yum factor…

Posted by Doug on 13-May-2010. Click here to read the full article

Fizz-ling into nothingness

Too natural to stay within the confines of the bottle…

Posted by Doug on 13-May-2010. Click here to read the full article

Notching up the naturals - Highlights of Real Wine 2010

Some thoughts about natural wines and a few highlights from Real Wine 2010…

Posted by Doug on 10-May-2010. Click here to read the full article

Time to fill one’s drinking boots

Returning to the fray after an absence....

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

Italian wines at the Decanter Tasting - Part Due

More news of good, bad and plug-ugly wines…

Posted by Doug on 29-Apr-2010. Click here to read the full article

A mixed day of Italians at Decanter tasting

Phew - I survived.

Posted by Doug on 28-Apr-2010. Click here to read the full article

Christina Pickard puts the ra-ra into Real Wine

What can one say except thanks for the warm-hearted comments…

Check out Christina’s web site: http://www.winewithchristina.co.uk

Posted by Doug on 26-Apr-2010. Click here to read the full article

Highly illuminating surveys - Part 23

Ze Brits - zey know nothing about nothing…

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

A Rhone with a view - Mas de Libian

These Rhones are made for drinking…

Posted by Doug on 11-Apr-2010. Click here to read the full article

Reds from tasting at Sun Inn, Dedham

A root day. Some wines were rooty, some were fruity, some were leafy and some were floral. Go figure!

Posted by Doug on 11-Apr-2010. Click here to read the full article

Tasting of white wines at Sun Inn, Dedham

The reds to follow…

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

Asda - clearing the decks with NZ Sauvignon

The price is wrong…

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

A Competition for Real Sommeliers

I am IRON man…

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

Vin de Petanque - it does what it says on the boule

Fresh, fruity and fun…

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

Combien Combier?

V good St. V....

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

Champagne at the bit - tasting acidosis

It fizzes like no-one’s bizziness, but the quality of NV Champagne is in inverse proportion to the amount of dosh spent marketing the product…

Posted by Doug on 31-Mar-2010. Click here to read the full article

Budget medicine

Same old…

Posted by Doug on 26-Mar-2010. Click here to read the full article

Andrew Hedley’s vintage update from New Zealand

Normally abnormal…

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

It’s not just who you know - it’s what you drink

This week I have been mostly drinking… good wine…

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

The South West comes to SW London

A wine dinner matching great food with its partner-in-wine....

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

Drinking well the natural way

Stick to what you like…

Posted by Doug on 17-Mar-2010. Click here to read the full article

Coteaux du Loir Patapon Domaine Le Briseau

Patapon - send in the clown…

Posted by Virginie on 15-Mar-2010. Click here to read the full article

FUOR - Sommeliers Conspicuously Absent

The On-trade was the Off-trade - and vice versa…

Posted by Virginie on 12-Mar-2010. Click here to read the full article

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 gives the lowdown

Out of tiny acorns funky wine movements doth grow…

Posted by Doug on 19-Jul-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

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