Restaurants: Sabor, London
Back in the saddle, a post-lockdown restaurant experience. Last Tuesday I lunched at Sabor in Heddon Street, just off lower
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Author: jamiegoode
VeriVin: using spectroscopy for non-destructive testing of wine
Website: https://www.verivin.com/ Dr Cecilia Muldoon is a wine-loving physicist whose invention, a device for the non-invasive identification of the contents
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The wines of Hidden Spring, Sussex, England
Website: https://www.hiddenspring.co.uk/ In 2014 Dr David McNally and Chris Phipps bought a 23 acre campsite in Horam, East Sussex, and
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German champions: the multiple faces of Riesling
This was a tasting of six Riesling wines from members of the VDP – a private German winery association founded
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Highlights: Gaja Ca’Marcanda Promis 2017 Toscana, Italy
Gaja Ca’Marcanda Promis 2017 Toscana, Italy14% alcohol. This is from Gaja’s Tuscan estate in the Maremma, which they bought in
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Château Cavalier: rosés from Provence
Website: https://www.chateau-cavalier.com/en/ This is a property owned by Castel at the foot of the Massif des Maures in the heart
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Billaud-Simon, one of the top Chablis domaines, now owned by Faiveley
I’m a great fan of the wines of Chablis, one of the few monocepage regions focusing on just Chardonnay from
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Highlights: François Saint-Lô Les Fontennelles 2016 Saumur, Loire
I visited François Saint-Lô on my Loire Valley trip with the Grape Witches a couple of years ago. He’s a
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Highlights: Montgomery Rondo 2018 Wales
In celebration of Welsh wine week, I opened this, from Montgomery in Powys. Rondo is an interesting cool-climate PIWI (the
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Highlights: Champagne Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame 2008
This is a remarkable wine. It has 92% Pinot Noir, but it has the freshness and focus of a really
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