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Most recent entries
The Newsletters
The Gospel according to St Doug
The Discerning Drinker
My Big, Fat, Natural Day Out
Jamie Goode at The Natural Wine Fair
Decanter World Wine Awards
Turkish Delight
The March Newsletter
The Newsletters
Please find herewith a small archive of this year’s newsletters (downloadable in PDF format)
The Gospel according to St Doug
After months of toil and reserach the new ‘Bible’ has finally been published
The Discerning Drinker
Andrew Neather in The Evening Standard
My Big, Fat, Natural Day Out
Christina Pickard gives her take on the Fair
Jamie Goode at The Natural Wine Fair
The Wine Anorak gets tasting at Borough Market
Decanter World Wine Awards
A whole raft of Caves de Pyrene wines pick up medals
Turkish Delight
“We want the finest wines known to humanity” - Withnail & I
The March Newsletter
In all its glory
Robert Giorgione finds fizzical fulPhillyment
Robert Giorgione explains champagne and visits historic Philipponnat.
Natural Wine masterclass at Vagabond Wines
On behalf of the good and the great....
February newsletter the second
News from the home front…
Les Caves de Pyrene - January Newsletter 2nd Edition
New Zealand gets Burgundered
On your marks, get set, taste!
Ripping Chenin
January 2011 newsletter
New wines, predictions and natural wine argumental…
Lifting the Bain
Puissant Pouilly…
Jamie on Gatti Lorenzo Raboso
December newsletter
Rank good Chardonnay from Ganevat
I give this peroration 88 points…
Small but beautiful tasting
Natural Chablis, more weirdness from Jura, Anna on Etna and a good-natured Dolcetto…
Gravelly voice Bojo shows his mojo
Naturally musical........
Autumnal wines
Salvo Foti’s Vinajancu
Les Caves November Newsletter
All the news that’s fit to drink…
Emily’s Pop Up Restaurant
Emily O’Hare talks about the pop-up restaurant she is involved with…
Dario’s Island Adventure
Mr Poddana visits the wilds of Sardinia
Les Caves denizens on parole
Beware of the pyscho-lists!
Good food, good wine, great company
You are cordially invited…
Simon Woods on all things bright and natural
Everything you needed to know about natural wine and were afraid to drink…
Tam Tam by Edouard Laffitte
Hidalgo at Chez Bruce
Our very own Doug Wregg is caught on camera singing the praises of these wonderful wines.
(Footage is courtesy of Robert Giorgione)
A new Matassa white and Donati’s funday best
Seriously fun and delightfully serious wines…
Patrick Rols and helpers
Two wines from Philippe Bornard
Including an amazing late-harvest Savagnin
More delicious wines
Improving an already high batting average…
Natural wine - argumental
On blogs and in wine articles everywhere a profound illogic reigns (a Vulcan writes)…
Pointing the way with top-notch wines
The guilty pleasure of scoring…
Selection of wines in prime form
I’m sticking to my diet of delicious natural wine…
We double-decant the stories beneath the headlines
You could honestly make it up…
Left-field Aveyron lovelies and a pair of prime Vernaccias
They stoop to Conques in the Aveyron whilst Elisabetta puts the natch into Vernaccia…
Two natural wine manifestos for the price of one
To the critics we say: Cut the carp (sic)
Big bad tastings
Off limits for the on-trade…
John’s 2010 vintage update from Gravillas
Lookin’ good…
Wine, wine and more wine at Terroirs
I remember clearly - nothing…
A great, great Hermitage from Dard et Ribo
Some incredible northern Rhone exposure…
Ganevat’s superb wines in all their glory
Hidalgo Sherry Lunch at Chez Bruce
The second in our Sherry and food matching lunches
Great Unexpecations - L’Inattendu delivers the goodies
“Gris is good” - a gordon gecko hiding under the stones in the vineyard…
The first wave of new arrivals
Meta-Muscadet
Hello, bivalves, everywhere… And a crackerjack red Macon…
State of the Wine Nation Musings
The Good, The Bad and Ugly again…
A beauty of bevvies
Sometimes we taste good wines at our sales meetings....
International Whine Challenge Awards
In an alternate universe somewhere at the end of Park Lane a strange event happened…
Recently tasted - much appreciated
Mad Men may be good, but it ain’t a patch on this old Mad-iran…
Diverse book reviews
Catching up on holiday reading. These are edited book reviews (reminds me of when I was school and one had to describe the book for 99% of the review and tack on a comment such as - “this is why I liked it!")
Jasnieres and Montlouis - the Chenin ring of confidence
Two Chenins with classy chassis…
Fram-a-lam-a-ding-a-ling
Good Framingham vibes…
Thoughts on note taking and wine writing
A trip to Sokol Blosser in Oregon
Oregon accumulator - with apologies to Hawkwind.
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…
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…
Prosecco sur lie Gatti
A joyous fizz to stimulate some purple prose(cco)…
Happy Hebridean hols
Harris - paradise refrigerated…
Natural wine listing at Terroirs for Observer Food Monthly
Another batch of natch…
Reds can be the new roses
Freshen up those ruby-reds…
Nosh and slosh at Terroirs
A sextet of vinous pearls…
Bubbling over - a full fizzical examination
Champagne versus Pet Nat. Which is better? There’s only one way to find out. FIGHT!!!!
La Luce is on the loose
Fourth time lucky and then patience (and faith) is rewarded…
Yummy-scrummy Mauzac Noir from Plageoles
Take one obscure grape variety…
Rebranding French wine
Bog standard mentality…
Definitive Italian Tasting
Green, amber and the odd red wines… and some real stormers…
Chateau Butlins
Camp culture…
More news headlines
In vino veritas…
New luxury hotel opens in Rioja - The Eagles pen a song
With apologies…
Beaujolais-palooza!
Laughing all the way to the Barranco
Obscure maybe, but this Spanish natural vin jaune tastealike certainly reaches the heights…
Definiton of natural wine
Put these grapevine clippings in your pipe and smoke it…
Actual new stories
You couldn’t make it up - could you?
More natural meanderings…
Some thoughts in no particular order…
The Mousseux is on the loose
Pinky is perky…
Boundary between spring and summer
I kick off the Chateau Boundary wine club…
I Vigneri by Salvo Foti
High on a volcano was a lonely goatherd…
Cauzon Blanco
An exceptional white Granada white…
A beautiful red from Granada
Well above the plain in Spain. An altitude wine with attitude…
Summer List 2010 - reasons to be cheerful
More is… more
A Saint-Chinian with excellent chi
Nom de chinian!
Mullineux wines - Swartland beauts
A Rhone-like white and a fabulous straw wine…
Two gems from curry night chez moi - Dard Crozes & Buisson Pouilleux
Nineteen, twenty - our glasses were quickly empty…
Kaiton from Pliger and Montevertine
Plu-perfection!
Irouleguy Blanc Hegoxuri - Basqueing in Glory
The wine that had everything - and a bit extra - on the day…
Luna toons
Grape art…
Supermarket sweeping discounts - deal or no deal?
The nature of the game…
Tim Atkin reviews some natural wines in the Times
Wines with a high yum factor…
Fizz-ling into nothingness
Too natural to stay within the confines of the bottle…
Notching up the naturals - Highlights of Real Wine 2010
Some thoughts about natural wines and a few highlights from Real Wine 2010…
Time to fill one’s drinking boots
Returning to the fray after an absence....
Italian wines at the Decanter Tasting - Part Due
More news of good, bad and plug-ugly wines…
A mixed day of Italians at Decanter tasting
Phew - I survived.
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
Highly illuminating surveys - Part 23
Ze Brits - zey know nothing about nothing…