Highlights: Château La Négly La Brise Marine Blanc 2021 La Clape, France
Website: https://boutique.lanegly.com/en/ Nice to see this top Languedoc performing well with a bit of bottle age, and this back vintage
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Regions
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: planning for the future, looking at new coffee varieties
Just as grapevines are sensitive to the climate, coffee varieties only thrive within narrow climatic bounds. And with climate change,
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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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Exploring speciality coffee and its parallels with fine wine: a visit to Fazenda Mió in Brazil to catch the harvest
There are many parallels between speciality coffee and wine, and that’s one of the reasons I was really excited about
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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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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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