Hacienda el Ternero is making impressive wines from the north of Rioja
Hacienda el Ternero is a little unusual in Rioja in that it’s a single estate, making wine from its own
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Video: Spur pruning masterclass with Livio Tognon of Simonit & Sirch
Pruning grape vines is a critical role in viticulture. Vines are perennial plants and almost always, they need to be
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Authentic Wines, a collaborative natural wine project from Portugal’s Lisboa region making wines under the Favonius label
Website: https://authenticwines.pt/ Authentic Wines is the name of the winery, while Favonius is the name they give to the wines.
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Highlights: Château La Négly La Brise Marine Blanc 2021 La Clape, France
Website: https://boutique.lanegly.com/en/ Nice to see this top Languedoc performing well with a bit of bottle age, and this back vintage
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Revisiting the brilliant low-intervention wines of Espera, from Portugal’s Lisboa region
Website: https://www.esperawines.pt/en-gb Espera is a natural wine producer based in Alcobaça, in the Lisboa wine region of Portugal. Soils here are
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Exploring speciality coffee and its parallels with fine wine: regenerative farming in coffee production at the Sombra agroforestry project at Fazenda Mió in Brazil
Mió have initiated an agroforestry plot in an attempt to find truly sustainable alternatives to monocrop coffee, and at the
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Sensory assessment of coffee, with parallels to wine tasting: cupping, grading and describing, with Dr Fabiana Carvalho
Dr Fabiana Carvalho, a neuroscientist, is a researcher from the University of Campinas who also works with Mió coffee. She
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Video: visiting an agroforestry coffee plantation in Brazil, the 15 hectare Sombra experiment that’s a collaboration between Fazenda Mió and Volcano Coffee Works in the UK
Coffee is often grown as a monocrop. Here, at Fazenda Mió in Brazil I’m visiting a 15 hectare agroforestry experiment,
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Highlights: Sandridge Barton East Field Pinot Noir Early 2025 Devon, England
Another cracking lighter-style red from the UK! Sandridge Barton East Field Pinot Noir Early 2025 Devon, England11.2% alcohol. 100% Pinot
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Highlights: Flint Vineyard Pinot Noir Precoce 2025 England
Website: https://flintvineyard.com/products/pinot-noir-precoce-2025 So nice to see wines like this coming from the UK. I love what Flint, who are based
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