Exploring Japanese Wine (7) visiting Kawachi Wine Company, Osaka
Kawachi Wine Company is based in Habikino City, on the border of Osaka and Nara prefectures. The vineyard grows grapes
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Bourgogne (Burgundy) 2022: a surprising and beautiful vintage
Each year in January, the UK wine trade has a Bourgogne week. Except, we still call it Burgundy week. The
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The wines of Cayuse revisited: stunning wines from Walla Walla
I caught up with Christoph Baron of Cayuse at the 2023 TexSom conference to taste through some of his wines.
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In Niagara, Canada (12) Southbrook Vineyards
Website: https://www.southbrook.com/ The Redelmeier family have been farmers in Ontario since the 1940s. Current proprietor Bill Redelmeier proved to be
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The remarkable wines of Werlitsch, Styria, Austria
Website: http://www.werlitsch.com/ Ewald and Brigitte Tscheppe (above) are the couple behind one of Austria’s most interesting wine projects: the Werlitsch
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Why should we care about the age of the vine that made our wine?
Man’s history with the vine predates the written word. Old vines map man’s passage to the new world and our
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Beaujolais adventures (7) Clos du Mez, Fleurie
Website: https://www.closdemez.com/ Marie-Élodie Zighera-Confuron (hence MEZ, with Confuron her added-on married name) is on a mission to make great, ageworthy
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The wines of Bosman, Wellington and Hemel-en-Aarde, South Africa
Website: https://bosmanwines.com/ Wellington-based producer Bosman have quietly become one of the most interesting of all South African producers. They don’t
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Chianti Classico deep dive (4) San Felice
Website: https://www.sanfelice.com/en San Felice is another wine estate with a lot of properties. These in the past were accommodation for
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Most Memorable Champagnes of 2023
Though Champagne sales fell in 2023 (The Comité Champagne [CIVC] predicted sales of 314 million bottles vs 326 million sold
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