Highlights: Domaine Bonnigal-Bodet Chenin ‘Le Clocher’ 2018 Touraine Amboise, Loire
Domaine Bonnigal-Bodet is Jean Baptiste Bonnigal and Stéphane Bodet, who jointly took over Bonnigal’s fourth-generation family domaine in Amboise together
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Wine just tastes of wine: on objects and perception, part 1
How do we perceive wine? How do we make sense of the world around us? Is there such a thing
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Highlights:Familia Nin-Ortiz Selma de Nin Finca La Sinia 2016 Vi de Tabula, Spain
Nin-Ortiz is Ester Nin (viticulturist for Daphne Glorian’s Clos Erasmus) and Carles Ortiz (grape grower), who met and merged there
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A Rueda study: exploring this important Spanish white wine region
Rueda is unusual in Spain for being a white wine region. It’s also unusual in that it’s almost, but not
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Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay (2) six more top wines tasted
A few days ago I reported on six of the twelve Chardonnays (and Ring added her notes, after tasting through
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Christmas wines 2020
Some wines tasted over the holiday period, with an emphasis on sweet and Bordeaux. Champagne Ruinart Blanc de Blancs Non
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Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay (1) six top wines tasted
January 6, 2021 – I received the same wines as Goode, a few weeks later, and thought it would be
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Highlights: Champagne Robert Moncuit Blanc de Blancs Le Mesnil Sur Oger Grand Cru 2012
Moncuit farm without herbicides and pesticides, and are organic but not certified. The base wine for this vintage 2012 is
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PORT.CLUB by Churchill’s
Port.Club is a new membership retail platform by the Port House Churchill’s. For a drink that has laboured under a
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The triune brain, and thinking of a triune wine tasting approach
In our heads, we have a remarkable organ. The brain. It’s mushy and jelly-like, and it weighs around 1.4 kilograms.
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