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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Champagne Perrier Jouët have implemented regenerative viticulture in half of their vineyard area, and they are already seeing differences in the base wines
Jamie Goode travels to Champagne to visit the vineyards of Perrier-Jouët. Five years ago they began trialling regenerative approaches and
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Highlights: Klein Constantia Vin de Constance 2023 South Africa
This is the latest vintage of one of the world’s great sweet wines. It’s the Vin de Constance from Klein
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Excursions off the Riesling trail: what else can the Finger Lakes do?
This was a seminar at the FLXcursion event that I’ve just come back from. The goal was to explore the
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Weingut Frank, one of the stars of Austria’s Weinviertel region
Website: https://www.weingutfrank.at/englishhome Frank is a family winery that’s been going since 1724. They’re currently farming 23 hectares of vines, and
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The wines of Weingut Kurz, Weinviertel, Austria
Website: https://www.weingutkurz.at/ Eric Kurz (pictured above) is the third generation in this family winery, and makes 80% white wines and 20%
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A trio of impressive Pet Nats from UK winery Westwell
Westwell are nailing Pet Nat. Everyone makes one, and sometimes they are accidentally good. But to do it well consistently
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Tenerife winery Altos de Trevejos starts a new phase with Borja Pérez as winemaker
Website: https://www.altosdetrevejos.com/ We crossed from the north, via the Teide national part, to the south of Tenerife. Here you can
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At Osmote, Ben Riccardi is making some of the Finger Lakes’ best wines, and is shining a light on modern hybrids as well as vinifera varieties
Website: https://www.osmotewine.com/ Ben Riccardi (pictured above) is doing some special things at Osmote. On my first visit to the Finger
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