Grape vines in the wild: what they looked like before domestication
I’m fascinated by wild vines. We are so used to seeing vines growing neatly in rows in vineyards that sometimes
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Wine Science
Organic spraying: a quick case study
While I was in the Dobbin vineyard in Niagara, Canada, a tractor went by with a spray recovery system. I
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Catching up with Plaimont, the super-cooperative focusing on recovering lost grape varieties in France’s southwest
Website: https://www.plaimont.com/en/ Plaimont have a thing about looking for disappeared (or nearly disappeared) grapes, and this tasting was a great
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Spigamonti, a new old grape in Valpolicella with distinctive features
Back in 2009 I did a tasting of some recovered grape varieties in Valpolicella. This is a region dominated by
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Video and gallery: Festival del Potatare, the Simonit & Sirch pruning festival 2024
I’m just back from the Festival del Potatare, the second edition of the pruning festival organized by industry leading pruning
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Bad news from the Okanagan and other regions in BC, Canada: no grapes to be harvested in 2024
Some bad news from the Okanagan Valley in Canada, the country’s second largest wine region. This is a region that
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My science CV
After reading a recent book review that questioned my scientific credentials (I don’t think they were aware of the first
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Are pesticide levels in wine something we should be concerned about?
Advocacy group Pesticide Action Network UK (PAN UK) do some good work. We need independent bodies that campaign for food
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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 New Viticulture is now out, and I think it’s my best yet, with a video explaining the contents
Today I have launched my new book! I mentioned in Regenerative Viticulture that this was on the way: I said
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