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Most recent entries
Phwoarr wines at FUOR
A round up of newbies and slightly oldbies
Low Ugh-ahol wines
Survey cobblers
Jose Miguel Viu writes
The lovely Kate Thal destresses with some nice wines at Green & Blue
Stranger than fiction
A bevy of wines on form
Phwoarr wines at FUOR
The wines were singing like a nest of canaries…
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…
Low Ugh-ahol wines
What won’t they think of next?
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.
Jose Miguel Viu writes
In the aftermath of the earthquake…
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…
Stranger than fiction
Le vrai con…
A bevy of wines on form
Variety is the spice of life…
Gilbourg and Foufoune - lovely Chenin and lively Syrah
I’ve been sticking to a diet of natural wines…
Monsieur Le Sauvage finds some nice surprises lurking at the shallow end
Inexpensive and definitely cheerful…
Crumbling wine columns
The Observer puts its brain on hold with a daft editorial decision…
Alvas Bianco - another amber nectar
The seven white grape wonder of the world (or Sardinia at least)…
Pivoine by Herve Villemade. Because you’re worth it
Climb into this Cot with alacrity…
Wine Intelligence melts our minds with their China syndrome
Stating the obvious semillon-sauvignon…
Shining Chenin part umpteen and sundry lovelies
Regardless of root or fruit these little numbers were rootin’ tootin’…
Gallo, gallo, gallo, what’s all this then?
Pee No More from the Languedoc…
Call that a Pergola….. this is a Pergola!!
A snowy postcard from Campania.....
Oh and some pergola vines.
“Pressing matters” for Olivier C
The Cousin clan wish you grape expectations for 2010
Old wine news
What will those archaeologists dig up next?
Who needs wine when you’ve got labels?
I read it on the grape vine…
Dead Pinot Grigio and Faugeres bears
Where there is muck there’s dross, but then your faith can be restored…
Hildalgo sherries and food by Fiona Beckett
Panevino - natural goodness
Nostalgic over nuraghi? Drink some Panevino…
Packing in the Sardinian grapes
Grape detectives - prick up thine ears…
Of wines that keep going and a tasting amongst the dreaming spires
Nice quads!
Tim’s Hildalgo tasting notes
It’s largely “sherry amour"…
Crozes-Hermitage, Dard et Ribo
Crozes are red…
The wines are singing in 2010
These are the scores that are fit to print.
South Pack and Australian Terroirism - Tim give the lowdown
Out of tiny acorns funky wine movements doth grow…
A tricky time for NZ wines
The Wine Detective (Sarah Ahmed) sleuths out some excellent Riesling
Mas Hauvette reviewed by Jamie Goode
Do not fret, it’s not a crisis
But this wine has Brettanomyces
Thierry Puzelat’s fantastic Romorantin
So good I may have to frame my tongue…
Puzelat’s Le Rouge et Mis
The less fashionable Pinot…
So long 2009
Bigger, badder and better…
Bouquets and Brickbats for 2009
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…
Rootin’ day in Tootin’
A fabulous array of wines, but the gods of biodynamie were in mischevious mood…
Doug’s Top Ten Wines of 2009
The highlights of a year’s carousing…
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)…
What is truth in wine? said jesting Pilate
Kramer vs orthodoxy…
Massa Vecchia Bianco - a fan pays tribute…
Seditiously delicious…
Jamie reviews Podere Le Boncie Chianti Classico
Sanguine about Sangiovese…
A delicious dinner with Kate and Jude
Of friendship, a feast of curry, sublime wine - the best antidote to mediocrity…
Grandes Jorasses - A chip off the old (Mont Blanc) glacier
Belluard makes a belting Roussette de Savoie…
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…
More self-referential blogging about blogging
Yer damned if you do and yer damned if you don’t…
Clos Fantine Faugeres - natural goodness
Nowt taken out - a heck of a lot in there…
Round up of recent arrivals
Stay tuned for more newbies…
Framingham Noble Riesling ‘Ere We Come?
Just dessert wines…
Touvien, Cantina di Barro
This wine wants to be your friend…
The art of tasting
Most people can’t taste… discuss
The rise of neo-prohibitionism
Bad social science leads to crass short-termism…
New Releases Tasting - Part One
Contented wines at The Contented Vine…
Blithering tweetertwits
Let’s not forget the scribblative and babblative arts…
Cute Savvy and perky Pinot
Un petit de Bourgeois…
Tasting and postponing judgement
Not starting as you mean to drink on…
Consultancy - A Curate’s Egg
The good, the bad and the otherwise…
Barbera Trinchero 2003
Back in the groove…
Tea’s up with the Rare Tea Company
News of the brews…
Autumn blues…greens, reds, and browns
Let’s get Keatsian…
Satellites and terroir
Space bunkum?
Sunshine in a bowl - chicken and chorizo stew with Roussillon red
Guess what’s knocking around in my fridge?
Better Red from Med
Taste the terroir in these three bold reds…
Eric Asimov tells it like it is
You can be your own judge and jura…
Abouriou Elian da Ros
Let the funk begin…
More about restaurant wine lists
It was the best of wine lists, it was the worst of wine lists…
Birthday drinks
Every one a bullseye.
The need for greed
Foster’s – The Australian for Whine…
News that’s fit to print?
You’d better believe it.
Briseau’s Long Vines
Yes, of course, that’s exactly what it tastes like!
Good food, good wine, good company at The Ledbury
It is as good as it sounds…
Think pink bubbly Gamay
Another vin du soif…
Smell this!
Reduction in wine? Not all it’s cracked down to be…
Sylvain Martinez: Shining Chenin - part umpteen
Anj-who?
You are a critic; I have good taste. Discuss.
Ramble on…
Hi-Lo alcohol
Getting it right in the vineyard is better than any number of spinning cones…
Latest tasting notes
Yes - it was a flower day.
Wine Empire Building
Bigger is… bigger…
Natural Wines Revisited - Not The Last Word
Wild thing(s)
You make my heart sing
Of Jurancon, Madeleines and Memories
Don’t say Proustian. Oh you did… too late then.
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Curry favourite
Chenin with Channa Dhal? P’rhaps…
Random thoughts on blogging and science
DW unclogs his blogs, opens his wardrobe and takes out some haranguers…
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
Causality for Minerality
Suck those stones and see…
Ruminations on Blackpool Promenade
Some gross generalisations…
Pirates ahoy
A week in wine
Live a little, liver lot…
The Twittering Classes - Les Caves Gets Techno
The rockers get modern…
Pi-not thanks!
And the best Pinot Noir, according to the Decanter trophy awards, is from…
Emilio explains the difference between Albarino and Savagnin
So there you have it…
The stories behind the headlines
You couldn’t make it up…
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)
Paul rediscovers a lost wine
It’s full of Gasconicity!
Return to terroir
Yes, all you naysayers, it exists…
Take five (wines) with Kate and Jude in Queen’s Park
Feeling savvy… a day with friends, food and mainly Chenin....
Teran-osaurus Rex!
Zidarich bloody red tastes bloody good…
The truth is out there somewhere
It’s happening all around us…
Derain-Derain
A natural red Burgundy…
Cot and spicy
Some venison, Nahm-style, and some trustworthy Malbec…
The Silly Season - Some News Stories You May Have Missed
Every word is true up to a point, Lord Copper…