Champagne Esterlin, an over-performing coop making superb wines
Website: https://www.champagne-esterlin.com/en/house/ Champagne Esterlin is a small co-operative based in Epernay. They began in 1948 when three families from Mancy
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The impressive wines of Wolfgang Seher, Weinviertel, Austria
Website: https://www.weingutseher.at/ Based in Platt, in the Weinviertel region, Weingut Wolfgang Seher has 18 hectares of vines in two villages.
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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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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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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: planning for the future, looking at new coffee varieties
Just as grapevines are sensitive to the climate, coffee varieties only thrive within narrow climatic bounds. And with climate change,
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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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Exploring speciality coffee and its parallels with fine wine: a visit to Fazenda Mió in Brazil to catch the harvest
There are many parallels between speciality coffee and wine, and that’s one of the reasons I was really excited about
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Six wines from UK independent wine merchant Tanners
Website: https://www.tanners-wines.co.uk/ Tanners is a highly competent independent merchant chain, who also do quite a bit of regional wholesale. These
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