Highlights: Joshua Cooper Shay’s Flat Cabernet Sauvignon 2021, Pyrenees, Victoria, Australia
Joshua Cooper grew up in the vineyards with parents Alan and Nelly Cooper, and their pioneering biodynamic Cobaw Ridge winery
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New research suggests that it might be quercetin, not sulfites or biogenic amines, that are responsible for the headaches some people experience after drinking red wine
Some people suffer from headaches after drinking even a small amount of red wine. Usually for these people, the response
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The wines of Kershaw: a champion of single-site and even single-clone wines from Elgin, South Africa
Website: https://www.kershawwines.com/ Richard Kershaw is a British ex-pat and MW who has been making his own wines out of Elgin
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Highlights: two Cap Classiques from Pieter Ferreira
Pieter Ferreira is so well known for his work at Graham Beck, and for promoting the whole category of Cap
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Storm Wines: one of South Africa’s most exciting producers, based in Hemel-en-Aarde, South Africa
Website: https://www.stormwines.co.za/ Hannes Storm was the winemaker at Hamilton Russell for 13 years (with 12 vintages under his belt), so
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Élodie Balme, a new star from the Southern Rhône
Website: https://domaineelodiebalme.com/ Élodie Balme’s story is an increasingly common one in old world wine regions. Her parents had vineyards and
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The wines of Enderle & Moll from Germany’s Baden region
There’s a lot of buzz about Enderle & Moll, a project headed up by Florian Moll, focusing largely on Pinot
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A wine dinner at Brawn, London, with some lovely wines
Website: https://www.brawn.co/ I hadn’t been to Brawn, a neighbourhood restaurant on Columbia Road in Bethnal Green, for ages. So it
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Exploring the Centre Loire (3) Domaine Daniel Chotard, Sancerre
Website: https://www.chotard-sancerre.fr/en/ Chotard is in the small village of Reigny, and it was a beautiful October afternoon when we visited,
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Highlights: three vintages of the Cedro do Noval Branco
When it comes to table wines, we tend to think of the Douro as a red wine region, but it’s
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