I had the pleasure of meeting Jean-Marc Roulot yesterday. Roulot has established himself as one of the superstars of white Burgundy – the new Coche, if you will. The wines…
Exploring Sauvignon Blanc, with nine interesting wines
As part of a session at the Jackson Family Wines internal conference that I’ve been attending this week, we had a big discussion about Sauvignon Blanc. This included a tasting…
Top wines from ProWein 2017
[This is a post in collaboration with my Canadian colleague Treve Ring.] There are wine trade shows the world over, but there is only one that covers all bases from…
Three interesting whites: Luis Pato, Cape Point and De Wetshof
Grabbed these three interesting whites from the rack for a bit of comparative tasting. The Luis Pato is amazingly fresh at 8 years of age, and will be good for…
Lovely wines at Noble Rot
Was in Noble Rot on Friday night with Mark and Dan. It ended up becoming quite a big evening and we had some nice wines. How did we manage in…
A pre-ProWein tasting of some lovely Australian wines
On the eve of ProWein, Wine Australia put on a tasting of some really interesting Australian wines. Here are my notes on some of my favourites. Bellwether Vermentino 2014 Heathcote,…
Blind Spot: Mac Forbes makes great value Aussie wines for The Wine Society
Blind Spot is a range of own-label wines made for The Wine Society by Mac Forbes. They’re great value, and made in quite an elegant style. I like them a…
Some fine wines at Ellory, with Texier, Stephan, Foradori, Le Soula, Bosman
Had some lovely wines last night with Angela Jordaan and Thor Gudmundsson at the fabulous Ellory (thoroughly recommended: really good small plates style menu and excellent wine list). Here are my…
Greek wines on the world stage: a talk I gave in Athens
Here’s a written version of a talk I gave to Greek wine producers in Athens yesterday. It’s not exactly what I said (I never read talks); but rather it’s something…