Highlights: Barbadillo Manzanilla Pastora Pasada en Rama NV
Found this hidden in the racks: an en rama Manzanilla bottled in 2021, which would have been intended for consumption
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Regions
Single vineyard wines from Kamptal, Austria: tasting some excellent Riesling and Grüner Veltliner from top producers
The Single Vineyard Summit, held in September 2023 in Graffnegg, was a remarkable opportunity to try a broad range of
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New releases from BK Wines, a star producer in the Adelaide Hills
Website: https://bkwines.com.au/ Brendon and Kirstyn Keys are the B and K in BK Wines, and they are based in the
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Video: exploring the wines of Alsace with Lars Daniels, final day
Jamie Goode and Lars Daniels visit the Alsace wine region. This is the final day, with visits to Weinbach, Justin
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Highlights: Fractal Sequence 001 NV England
This is an interesting project. It’s a collaboration between William Lowe (who is a master of wine) and Nick Lane
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Wines from the Thracian Lowlands of Bulgaria: a study
Back in the 1980s Bulgarian Cabernet Sauvignon was a supermarket and off-licence staple. Bulgaria’s Soviet-era wine factories were turning out
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Highlights: Three from the Naramata Bench, Okanagan, Canada
Website: https://naramatabench.com/ The Okanagan Valley in Canada’s British Colombia is an important wine region. Five hours drive from Vancouver, up
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Argentina goes super-premium: the wines of Bemberg Estate with Daniel Pi
Website: https://www.bembergestatewines.com/eng/home Over recent decades Argentine wine has become well established, and extremely popular. At the more commercial level, Malbec
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New releases from Flint Vineyard, East Anglia
I’ve written about impressive East Anglian winery Flint Vineyard before here and here. They are doing some interesting things. I
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Exploring the Centre Loire (2) Domaine Bernard Fleuriet, Sancerre
Website: https://www.fleuriet-sancerre.com/ Bernard Fleuriet is one of Sancerre’s most interesting producers in the region, and we met with Matthieu Fleuriet
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