Champagne Marie-Courtin Résonance Extra Brut NV (2014) France 12% alcohol. Dominique Moreau runs the estate – her grandmother was Marie-Courtin. It’s 2 ha in the Aube, and all of the…
Place of Changing Winds, a remarkable Pinot from the Macedon Ranges
Place of Changing Winds Clos de la Connerie 2017 Macedon Ranges, Australia This wine is made by Luke Lambert for Robert Walters (an importer – he’s the founder of Bibendum…
When is it acceptable to reject a wine in a restaurant? How to manage the ‘taste’
There has been a lot of chat on twitter about a food blogger who had a bad experience in a restaurant in Manchester. He began by ordering a bottle of…
Gezellig: a new London restaurant with a strong wine focus
Popped into new restaurant Gezellig yesterday. I’d heard a bit about it before, and it was pointed out to me by a few that this was an omission on my…
Interesting Marlborough: new releases from Corofin
This was a chance to taste through the 2016s from Mike Paterson’s impressive Corofin project (which I reviewed a while back). 2016 was a pretty good vintage, but the following…
FLXcursion International Riesling Expo (3) Getting Deep
This session looked at Rieslings produced on deeper, heavier soils, comparing (in some cases) wines made on shallower soils with those from deeper ones. It was full of interest. First,…
We become attached to rules we have learned
It’s amazing how attached we become to rules that we’ve learned. Take the split infinitive. ‘To boldly go,’ is – to those who learned grammar in school – technically wrong,…
FLXcursion International Riesling Expo (2) Contact track
Continuing my reports from the FLXcursion in the Finger Lakes, this is a write-up of a tasting focusing on élevage: the way that winemaking can change the expression of Riesling….
Could synthetic wines be interesting?
Wine is a solution of lots of chemicals. The most expensive wines in the world sell for thousands of dollars a bottle. The difference between the world’s most expensive wines…