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…
A very interesting Turkish red: Kayra Öküzgözü
This rather delicious, old-world-styled Turkish red is from Elaziğ in Eastern Anatolia, the birthplace of wine. This is in the south east of the country, not all that far from…
Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels
The London wine bar scene is thriving. On Wednesday evening I paid my first visit to a relative newcomer (almost a year old now), Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels in Seven…
In action: the video from my talk on minerals and terroir in Barcelona
So the video of my talk from the Wine and Culinary Forum (nice review of the forum here from top Canadian wine journo Treve Ring) is finally live and posted…