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: 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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Video: visiting an agroforestry coffee plantation in Brazil, the 15 hectare Sombra experiment that’s a collaboration between Fazenda Mió and Volcano Coffee Works in the UK
Coffee is often grown as a monocrop. Here, at Fazenda Mió in Brazil I’m visiting a 15 hectare agroforestry experiment,
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Highlights: Sandridge Barton East Field Pinot Noir Early 2025 Devon, England
Another cracking lighter-style red from the UK! Sandridge Barton East Field Pinot Noir Early 2025 Devon, England11.2% alcohol. 100% Pinot
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Highlights: Flint Vineyard Pinot Noir Precoce 2025 England
Website: https://flintvineyard.com/products/pinot-noir-precoce-2025 So nice to see wines like this coming from the UK. I love what Flint, who are based
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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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Highlights: Soalheiro Nature Pur Terroir Alvarinho 2022 Portugal
Really impressed by this fizz from Soalheiro in Vinho Verde. Soalheiro Nature Pur Terroir Alvarinho 2022 Vinho Espumante IG Minho,
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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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Restaurants: celebrating 10 years of the Barbary, Neal’s Yard, with its countertop-only dining spanning southern Europe to north Africa
Website: https://www.thebarbary.co.uk/neals-yard Great meal last night at The Barbary, Neal’s Yard (London). It’s one of two locations for this amazing
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