A £12 Wine You Can Age For Two Decades
Grapes for Amarone drying on traditional bamboo trays After visiting Valpolicella last month, I was going to write about the current...
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Nov 2, 2016
Give Muscadet Some Love: five wines to try
Post updated with more recommendations and more about the crus communaux on 11 November 2016 Muscadet has been having a tough time of it...
Oct 29, 2016
Is co-fermentation the new black for Port?
Co-fermenting – fermenting different grape varieties together happened by default in the past It was a while since I’d been in the Douro...
Oct 16, 2016
A Corker of an Afternoon: checking into the recorking clinic
Caught in the act: me snapping the documentary cameraman from National Geographic photographing my three bottles of Grange just before we...
Oct 7, 2016
The Next Big Thing...
This is the sort of piece I normally write at the close of the year, but I have more than enough material and deserving wines to mention...
Apr 19, 2016
Penfolds Grange and Special Bins: a unique vertical tasting in Paris
Hosted by the Australian Ambassador to France at "an intimate dinner", it was billed as "the first ever monumental vertical tasting of...
Apr 5, 2016
Iconic, historic... it must be Penfolds Grange and a Rewards of Patience tasting
Penfolds' fifth Rewards of Patience was a remarkable, unrepeatable tasting over four days in September 2003. It included the complete set...
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