Highlights: Champagne Bruno Paillard Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut 2013 France
Champagne Bruno Paillard Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut 2013 FranceFrom the Grand Cru villages of Oger and Mesnil-sur-Oger. Disgorged in
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Tasting the Winemag and Prescient Best of Category South African Wines
Websites: https://winemag.co.za/ and https://www.prescient.co.za/ This was a really interesting lunch, hosted at High Timber, to showcase the Winemag and Prescient
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Holass, exciting wines from the border of Austria and Hungary
Website: https://holass.com/ Imre Halász and Ellie Bauwens are the couple behind Holass. It’s a virtual winery, in the sense that
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Highlights: four Ports to consider for the festive season
I love Port, and I kind of wish (for the sake of the Port producers) that it wasn’t such a
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Ventoux, making fresh wines in the Southern Rhône
Mont Ventoux is well known to cycle fans around the world as being a key (and rather brutal) stage in
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Meeting Mr Chenin: the wines of Ken Forrester, who has helped make South African Chenin Blanc famous
I’m sitting with Ken Forrester outside his tasting room on a sunny November afternoon, looking across one of his vineyards
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Highlights: Brooks Wines Ara Riesling 2021, Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA
One of the many highlights of the Brooks Wines portfolio, Ara was one of the first Rieslings founder/winemaker Jimi Brooks
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Highlights: two from 2022 in Marlborough, Cloudy Bay and Yealands
It’s compare and contrast from two Sauvignon Blancs from Marlborough – new releases from the 2022 vintage. One priced at
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The wines of Graeme and Julie Bott (Domaine GJ Bott): what happens when a Kiwi comes to the Northern Rhône and finds love and a vocation
Website: https://www.domaine-gjbott.fr/en/ Graeme Bott is a Kiwi and he married Julie, who’s French and was born in the northern Rhône.
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Domaine Bousquet: how a winemaker swapped his French winery for an Argentine one, and then his Kuwait-born Iraqi son-in law grew it to be the country’s leading organic winery
Website: https://domainebousquet.com/en/ This week I met with Labid al Ameri (pictured above), co-owner of Domaine Bousquet, in London to hear
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