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Exploring Lirac (5) Domaine des Carabiniers ‘Biodynamic Wine’

August 5, 2024June 5, 2025 jamiegoode 3090 Views Lirac

Website: https://www.biodynamicwine.bio/en/ It’s perhaps surprising to find a domaine branded as ‘biodynamic wine’. But that’s how Domaine des Carabiniers describe

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Exploring Lirac (4) Château de Bouchassy

August 5, 2024June 5, 2025 jamiegoode 2768 Views Lirac

I tasted these wines with Marie-Cécile Degoul, who returned to the family domaine two years ago after working for 15

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Exploring Lirac (3) Domaine Jean-Maxime Delorme

August 5, 2024June 5, 2025 jamiegoode 2618 Views Lirac

Domaine Jean-Maxime Delorme is a new domaine in Lirac. I tasted the wines with his wife, Anaïs Rebouleau. His family

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Exploring Lirac (2) Clos du Jas

August 5, 2024August 5, 2024 jamiegoode 3163 Views

Grégory Sergent (pictured above) is the man behind Clos du Jas. He spent 15 years as a paratrooper in the

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Exploring Lirac (1) Château Boucarut

August 5, 2024August 5, 2024 jamiegoode 3089 Views Lirac

Château Boucarut is a new producer in Lirac. Saskia and Maurice Goetschy established the domaine in Roquemure in 2017. They

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Exploring Cairanne (2) tasting with the youngsters – Serre-Blanc, Rabasse Charavin, Alary, Grands Serres and Berthet-Rayne

July 11, 2024July 12, 2024 jamiegoode 5415 Views

Tasting with the young vignerons of Cairanne Cairanne is a dynamic appellation and there are quite a few young winegrowers

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Exploring Cairanne (5) Boutinot

July 11, 2024July 11, 2024 jamiegoode 4163 Views Cairanne

Boutinot are a major UK wine importer and wholesaler, but they also own vineyards in South Africa, England and France.

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Exploring Cairanne (6) Domaine Brusset

July 11, 2024July 12, 2024 jamiegoode 3675 Views Cairanne

Website: https://www.domainebrusset.fr/en/ This domaine dates back to 1947, and was based on a small 3 hectare vineyard in Cairanne. It

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Exploring Cairanne (3) Domaine Boisson, with Bruno Boisson and a terroir tour

July 11, 2024July 12, 2024 jamiegoode 3537 Views

I took a tour of some of the Cairanne terroirs with Bruno Boisson. He explained that Cairanne has freshness with

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Exploring Cairanne (1) a large tasting of the 2022 wines

July 11, 2024July 12, 2024 jamiegoode 6258 Views Cairanne

For a long time, Cairanne was part of Côtes de Rhône Villages, but it became a cru in 2015, after

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The brilliant Douro wines of Mateus Nicolau de Almeida/Ameztoy & Almeida
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The brilliant Douro wines of Mateus Nicolau de Almeida/Ameztoy & Almeida

August 1, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://ameztoyalmeida.com/ Mateus Nicolau de Almeida is the son of the well known João Nicolau d’Almeida of Ramos Pinto fame,

Sablière: a new 0% alcohol sparkling ‘wine’ designed from first principles
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Sablière: a new 0% alcohol sparkling ‘wine’ designed from first principles

July 31, 2026July 31, 2026 jamiegoode
The wines of Zacharioudakis, Crete
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The wines of Zacharioudakis, Crete

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Reynolds Wine Growers: top wines from the cooler north of Portugal’s Alentejo

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