Popped in to Asda today, and saw the Brancott Estate/Montana Estate Sauvignon Blanc at half price, just £4.24. Montana Sauvignon Blanc was one of the strongest wine brands. It was…
Wonderful natural Beaujolais: G. Descombes Regnie
Georges Descombes is one of the band of natural wine guys currently active in Beaujolais. The natural Beaujolais wines like this are by far the most interesting expressions of Beaujolais,…
Snow, puppy and Port
From all the fuss, you’d imagine we’d never seen snow before in the UK. But for each of the last three winters, we’ve had a good dose of the white…
Oh dear – awful videos promoting natural cork
As if the recent James Suckling dot com teaser videos weren’t bad enough, now we have two more horrors. They are two rather awful videos supporting natural cork. A strange,…
Photos: my flickr feed
Flickr feed is a nifty tool that presents a slideshow of recently uploaded pictures. Here’s mine:
Video: another remarkable Chilean vineyard: Tabali’s Talinay, in Limari
A short film of another remarkable Chilean vineyard. This time we are in the Limari region, visiting Vina Tabali’s new Talinay vineyard. It’s not far from the coast, so it…
Marcillac: an affordable wine to fall in love with
Forget points. Forget shopping-list tasting notes. Forget wine tasting as a ‘competition’ to see which wine is best. The endorsement I will give this wine is that I love it….
Schioppettino!
I’m strongly drawn to lesser-known grape varieties like Schioppettino, both for the wines they produce, and also for the fact that they tend to be restricted to certain localities. This…
A little, fat, furry slug – now a week old
Forgive the non-wine related indulgence of a post on our little sluggy – RTL’s singleton pup. She’s now a week old, and doing very well. Soon she will open her…