Two lovely South African wines recently enjoyed. The first, quite conventional: the 2012 vintage of the fabulous Mullineux Syrah. While I love their Granite and Schist bottlings (I haven’t yet…
Influence Wines Riesling 2012 Finger Lakes
This is the first wine I have tried from the Finger Lakes region in New York State. They are a network of long, finger-like lakes just south of Lake Ontario,…
Two from Spain: Basconcillos and Sandoval
After posting on two Portuguese wines yesterday, I thought I’d stay in the Iberian peninsula and write up two Spanish bottles. The Basconcillos is a low-SO2 red that’s brilliant value…
Two from Portugal: Vale Meão 2005 and Casa de Mouraz Elfa 2010
Portugal is a wonderful wine country, and one that I’ll be focusing on a bit this year, after having let it suffer mild neglect at my hands. Here are two…
Video: DRC 2012 tasting
Here’s a brief film from today’s 2012 DRC tasting at Corney & Barrow. You can read my notes on the wines here.
In Austria, up a mountain, and some wines
So for the last few days I have been up a mountain with a group of buddies in the lovely town of Zell am See in Austria. It has been…
My life in Riesling, with Hugh Johnson, Jancis Robinson, David Motion and Stuart Pigott
Thursday night was the Riesling Fellowship dinner at Vintner’s Hall. It quite grand – gentlemen were required to wear jackets and ties. [Aside: whenever I attend a wine trade event…
Two lovely Nahe Rieslings from Schäfer-Fröhlich and Dönnhoff
I’m going through a bit of a Riesling phase at the moment, and here are two exceptional bottles from the Nahe. There’s one from the king of the Nahe, Helmut…