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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...

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...

Day 2 in Calabria provided our introduction to the DOC of Cirò , with Francesco Siciliani, who owns the wine estate of San Francesco . The...

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...

Johnny Goedhuis always holds his annual Rhône and Midi en primeur tasting in the splendid surroundings of the Saatchi Gallery. Word has obv...

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...

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 ...

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...

It is no exaggeration to suggest that the south of France, the vast vineyard of Languedoc-Roussillon, is currently the country’s most exciti...

Patricia Domergue also brought a few examples of Minervois la Livinière to show us, as follows: 2008 Domaine Ste Eulalie, la Cantilène Made...

Quite simply, Clos Centeilles is one of my favourite Minervois estates. It was created by Daniel and Patricia Domergue in the late 1980s an...