Book review: One Thousand Vines: a new way to understand wine, by Pascaline Lepeltier
One Thousand Vines: a new way to understand winePascaline LepeltierMitchell Beazley, London, 2024 I first met Pascaline Lepeltier in 2014
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Domaine du Gringet, taking over the reins of Domaine Belluard, making remarkable Savoie wines
I tasted these wines with Miguel Sarzies, who’s part owner, vigneron and winemaker at Domaine du Gringet, a remarkable producer
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Andrew Caillard and The Australian Ark, perhaps the best wine book ever written!
Website: https://australianark.com Andrew Caillard’s ‘The Australian Ark’ is one of the most amazing wine books ever written. I caught up
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Alcohol, health, the social licence of drinking and neo-prohibitionism – an important topic for the wine trade to engage with
How much can you drink without damaging your health? Is there a safe level of drinking? Are government guidelines on
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Tasting interesting wines in Stockholm, generating word cloud tasting notes with an expert group
I recently did a seminar in for wine folk in Stockholm – at Vinkällan, the Scanadnavian Wine Academy – which
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Bordeaux 2022: tasting the wines from this much-hyped vintage now they are in bottle
Each year I look forward to tasting the most recently bottled vintage of Bordeaux. These wines will have been shown
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Soil Therapy: a new star making distinctive terroir-focused wines from Alsace
Website: https://www.facebook.com/soiltherapywine/ Thomas Larmoyer was supposed to be in town to present his wines but his passport had expired. But
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Who would want to be a restaurant reviewer? Why it is a horrible gig
Some people think that being a restaurant reviewer for a well recognized publication must be a great job. You get
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In the Russian River Valley, Sonoma, California (10) Kanzler Vineyards
Website: https://kanzlervineyards.com/ Kanzler is a relatively new boutique winery in the Sebastopol Hills of the Russian River Valley, run by
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Bowled over by the single origin 2015 wines from Champagne Philipponnat
Website: https://www.philipponnat.com/ Over lunch at the excellent Clove Club, I caught up with Charles Philipponnat and a small band of
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