If you have not come across The Wine Gang, you should remedy that omission. They are a lively group of five wine writers – they rightly des...
MAS DE L'ECRITURE
After that detour into southern Italy, I am now firmly back in the Languedoc. And I have finally caught up with Pascal Fulla’s missing wine...
A MORNING IN PUGLIA with Rivera
We spent the morning with Sebastiano de Corato from the wine estate of Rivera , which is situated north of Bari, outside the town of Andria....
CALABRIA - Day 3 with LIBRANDI
A day for more Cirò. We spent the morning with Raffaele Librandi, whose family company is the biggest producer of Cirò. First we went to s...
LUNCH AT JUVENILES
Just back from a couple of days at the Salon des Vignerons Indépendents. Lots of good wines to taste – some new discoveries and some old fa...
CALABRIA DAY 2
Day 2 in Calabria provided our introduction to the DOC of Cirò , with Francesco Siciliani, who owns the wine estate of San Francesco . The...
HIGHLIGHTS OF CALABRIA - DAY ONE
Calabria was new and unknown to me, and it was wonderful. For a start the weather was like an English summer, even though it was early Nove...
THE MIDI CHEZ GOEDHUIS & CO
Johnny Goedhuis always holds his annual Rhône and Midi en primeur tasting in the splendid surroundings of the Saatchi Gallery. Word has obv...
THE LANGUEDOC AT ODDBINS
The now not so new team at Oddbins is making a great effort to revamp what had become a rather boring range of wines under the Castel owners...
MIDI GRAPES IN THE CAPE
There were South Africans in town last week for their annual tasting. You may well be forgiven for thinking: what the hell has that got to ...
DOMAINE COMBEBELLE
Catherine Wallace is young and energetic, and she needs to be. In 2005 she bought Domaine Combebelle from Bertie Eden. It’s a wonderful sp...
MORE ON MINERVOIS LA LIVINIERE
It is no exaggeration to suggest that the south of France, the vast vineyard of Languedoc-Roussillon, is currently the country’s most exciti...
TASTING OF MINERVOIS LA LIVINIERE
Patricia Domergue also brought a few examples of Minervois la Livinière to show us, as follows: 2008 Domaine Ste Eulalie, la Cantilène Made...
CLOS CENTEILLES
Quite simply, Clos Centeilles is one of my favourite Minervois estates. It was created by Daniel and Patricia Domergue in the late 1980s an...
CLOS DU GRAVILLAS
John and Nicole Bojanowski are wine growers in the village of St. Jean-de-Minervois at Clos du Gravillas. The village is known for its swee...
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