Andrew Hedley Gets Savvy About NZ Savvy

Of terroir and methoxypyrazines…

Lairis - The Legend of the Exploding Hedgehog

Norra lorra people know this… Liz Reid discovers what’s in a name.

You’ve Got To Love ‘Em (I Hope)

Po-faced connoisseurs may shake their heads sadly and look askance but these three wines yield funds of enjoyment…

Gluttons for Punishment

Some thoughts about tastings, tasters and the point of it all…

The Ultimate News Antidote

The curative qualities of corruption…

Judgement of Berlin

Get your icons out - it’s France vs Italy vs Chile vs California…

Of Natural Wines and Unnatural Reactions

Stuff these ideas into a cow horn, bury it in the autumn, take it out in the spring, dilute, stir them one way then the other, and spray willy-nilly into the blogosphere.

Jancis Tastes Low Sulphur Reality Chez Caves

Jancis is right. If you want to taste safe, supermarketable wines go elsewhere. If you want to be challenged, amused, amazed and occasionally perturbed, stop right here…

Real Wine Recollected In Tranquillity

The dust has settled, feeling has returned to aching limbs, and those who basically destroyed their constitutions for three days to make fraternal drinking cause with the growers, have detoxed (yeah, really). Here are some impressions of our annual trade tasting (otherwise known as Real Wine)…

Natural Wine

The lore of the natural jungle…

A Sneaky Mention from Tim Atkin in The Observer

Twenty years ago we all drank Hirondelle. Today, we are mostly drinking Frappato from COS (or some of us are)…

Real Wine 2009

A selection of images from this year’s Real Wine tasting