Highlights: Heinrich Graue Freyheit 2017 Austria
This remarkable wine, in a clay bottle, is a blend of Grauburgunder (Pinot Gris) from crystalline schist and quartz schist
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Video: vintage at Tillingham
Jamie Goode visits Tillingham winery in Sussex (UK). It’s vintage time, and after a look round and a chance to
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Gallery: vintage at Tillingham, a natural winery in Sussex, UK
Two days in Sussex. I actually did some proper work. After a gentle first day (looking round, tasting the 2020
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Highlights: Jean-François Ganevat Plein Sud Trousseau 2018 Côtes du Jura
Had this at Noble Rot Soho. It’s a Trousseau from the Jura, made without any added sulfites. Infusion-style winemaking with
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Highlights: François Saint-Lô Les Fontennelles 2016 Saumur, Loire
I visited François Saint-Lô on my Loire Valley trip with the Grape Witches a couple of years ago. He’s a
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Highlights: De Moor Bourgogne Chitry 2018 France
Neighbouring the Chablis region, Chitry is a very interesting appellation with similar soils and climate, with the potential to make
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In South Africa: visiting the new home of Testalonga
Craig and Carla Hawkins were the first of the Swartland Revolution crew to start their own vineyard project, back in
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Highlights: Monastero Suore Cistercensi Coenobium & Benedic
These are not your typical Italian wines. Unless, that is, you usually take of natural wine made by nuns. In
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Does a producer have any rights to their wines, once they have sold them?
I recently wrote a piece for Little Wine about the grey market for wine, and how this has started to
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Johan Meyer and his new home in the Swartland – some of South Africa’s top natural wines
Johan Meyer, known affectionately by everyone as Stompie, is one of the leading natural winegrowers in South Africa. He’s been
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