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Jasnieres and Montlouis - the Chenin ring of confidence
Fram-a-lam-a-ding-a-ling
Thoughts on note taking and wine writing
A trip to Sokol Blosser in Oregon
Big fish eats medium size fish
Doffing my hattie to the Gatti red
Prosecco sur lie Gatti
Happy Hebridean hols
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…
A Rhone with a view - Mas de Libian
These Rhones are made for drinking…
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!
Tasting of white wines at Sun Inn, Dedham
The reds to follow…
Asda - clearing the decks with NZ Sauvignon
The price is wrong…
A Competition for Real Sommeliers
I am IRON man…
Vin de Petanque - it does what it says on the boule
Fresh, fruity and fun…
Combien Combier?
V good St. V....
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…
Budget medicine
Same old…
Andrew Hedley’s vintage update from New Zealand
Normally abnormal…
It’s not just who you know - it’s what you drink
This week I have been mostly drinking… good wine…
The South West comes to SW London
A wine dinner matching great food with its partner-in-wine....
Drinking well the natural way
Stick to what you like…
Coteaux du Loir Patapon Domaine Le Briseau
Patapon - send in the clown…
FUOR - Sommeliers Conspicuously Absent
The On-trade was the Off-trade - and vice versa…
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 gives 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…