Three nice rosés: Boutari, Delaunay, Foncalieu
It’s rosé season, and here are three attractive, well priced examples, including a nice one from Greece. Boutari Dianthos Xinomavro
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Videos: Robots in the vineyard, new technology applied
Viticulture is expensive, and a lot of the cost is paying people to do quite boring, repetitive work. Of course,
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Highlights: two from low intervention English producer Matt Gregory
Website: https://mattgregorywines.co.uk/ Matt Gregory makes wines from a single 3 hectare vineyard in Leicestershire (UK), a county not normally associated
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Highlights: Champagne Gosset Cuvée Dosage Zéro
Website: https://www.champagne-gosset.com/en/our-champagne-wines/cuvee-zero-dosage/ This is a new cuvée from Gosset. The wine is based on the 2013 vintage and was bottled
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Brent Marris, Emma Marris and The Ned, tasting wines from one of Marlborough’s (NZ) emerging dynasties
The Marris dynasty are an important part of Marlborough’s past, present, and surely future. John Marris was the land agent
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Brunia, an exciting cool-climate wine project from South Africa’s Walker Bay
Website: https://www.bruniawines.co.za/ This is an exciting project owned by the Sander family, and it’s in a relatively unknown winegrowing region
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Cantina Antonioli are making lovely natural wines in the foothills of the Apennine mountain range in Italy’s Umbria
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cantinaantonioli/?hl=en Giulia and Giorgio Antonioli came to wine as a second career: she was an archaeologist and he was
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La Biancara di Angiolino e Alessandro Maule: meet one of Italy’s most celebrated natural wine producers
Website: https://www.angiolinomaule.com/en-home Angiolino Maule is a leading figure in the Italian natural wine scene. He and his wife Rosamaria began
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Vallado: impressive Douro wines, including some great value options
I first visited Quinta do Vallado back in 2002, and I’ve been back a few times since. The quinta and
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Hector’s: a small but perfectly formed wine bar with a great list
Website: https://hectorslondon.co.uk/ I can’t believe this was my first visit to Hector’s. It’s a brilliant wine bar located in De
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