New Hall Wine Estate: 2021 releases from this Crouch Valley (Essex, England) winery
Website: www.newhallwines.com One of England’s oldest commercial vineyards, planted in 1969 by Bill and Sheila Greenwood. That year they began
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Features
Penn Croft and Itasca Wines: an interesting Hampshire contract winery (Thorrington Mill, Wraxhall, Missing Gate) also making their own wines
Ben Smith is the winemaker at Itasca Wines, a 600 ton winery in north Hampshire. Here he makes some of
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Beyond the sea: a tasting of Rieslings influenced by bodies of water
Lakes have been important in making viticulture possible in many regions. Think of Niagara in Canada: without the lake effect
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Beaujolais adventures (2) Château de Pougelon, working with agroecology and a beautiful new winery
Website: https://descombe.com/domaines/chateau-de-pougelon Located in Saint-Etienne-des-Ouillières, Château de Pougelon is owned by the Descombe family, and is currently run by Marine
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Anderson Valley, California (5) Drew
Website: https://www.drewwines.com/ Jason Drew is based just outside the Anderson Valley, on the Mendocino Ridge, about a mile west from
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Anderson Valley, California (6) a big tasting with lots of producers
Copain Website: https://www.copainwines.com/ A boutique winery started by Wells Guthrie, I first came across them as part of the In
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Beaujolais adventures (1) the newcomers – tasting wines from new producers
Beaujolais is a dynamic region, with lots of newcomers keen to get involved. Partly this is because it’s a beautiful
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Anderson Valley, California (5) Roederer Estate
In 1982, Jean-Claude Rouzeau – the CEO of Champagne Roederer – was sent to look at the wild west of
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Anderson Valley, California (4) Maggy Hawk
Website: https://www.maggyhawk.com/ Maggy Hawk is a beautiful vineyard in the deep end of the Anderson Valley, and I tasted through
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Anderson Valley, California (3) Baxter
Website: https://www.baxterwinery.com/ One of the wineries that most impressed me on my visit to the Anderson Valley was Baxter, which
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