Poças: a Portuguese Port house now making some exceptional Douro table wines
Website: https://pocas.pt/en/# One Douro estate that has been taking my eye of late is Poças. They are a family owned
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Weingut Thörle: Impressive new wave German wines from this Rheinhessen estate
Website: www.thorle-wein.de Thörle is a family domaine based in Saulheim in the Rheinhessen, and since 2006 it has been run
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Celebrating Cabernet Sauvignon: tasting 10 benchmarks from around the wine world blind
Since 1982, Western Australian winery Cape Mentelle has held an International Cabernet Tasting at the winery. Founder David Hohnen began
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Dourthe Parcellaires: a new concept from this Bordeaux firm
This is a new series of limited edition bottlings that Dourthe have released to challenge the Bordeaux concept of blending.
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Tasting the Winemag and Prescient Best of Category South African Wines
Websites: https://winemag.co.za/ and https://www.prescient.co.za/ This was a really interesting lunch, hosted at High Timber, to showcase the Winemag and Prescient
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Highlights: four Ports to consider for the festive season
I love Port, and I kind of wish (for the sake of the Port producers) that it wasn’t such a
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Ventoux, making fresh wines in the Southern Rhône
Mont Ventoux is well known to cycle fans around the world as being a key (and rather brutal) stage in
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Meeting Mr Chenin: the wines of Ken Forrester, who has helped make South African Chenin Blanc famous
I’m sitting with Ken Forrester outside his tasting room on a sunny November afternoon, looking across one of his vineyards
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Bringing up a wine: the art of élevage in winemaking
Wine is a product of fermentation. Yeasts eat the sugar in the grapes and from this produce alcohol. They also
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Wines on the edge, imperfectly perfect – a seminar and tasting looking at wine faults
A few weeks ago I visited California, presenting a seminar titled Wines on the Edge in Los Angeles and San
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