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Posted on by Liz Sagues

English wine: much more beyond bubbles

Posted on by Liz Sagues
bolney wine estate
Liz Sagues looks back on last month's Circle of Wine Writers seminar on still English wine and why it sparkles just as much as English sparkling wine. The decision to focus the Circle's June 26th webinar on English still wine rather than sparkling was a deliberate one. Coronavirus restrictions permitting, the committee is planning a masterclass and tasting early in November to help bring the too-...
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Counting the true cost of wine

Posted on by L.M. Archer
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A cultural conundrum

Posted on by Neal D. Hulkower
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Changing the wine business for the better

Posted on by Tim Atkin
diversity in the wine industry
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Modern Malbec and the Mendoza matriarch

Posted on by Ruma Singh
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Dr Richard Smart calls for carbon capture

Posted on by Dr Richard Smart
Dr. Richard Smart, the renowned viticulturist who now calls himself a ‘carbon conscious’ vine doctor rather than the ‘flying’ vine doctor, looks back at the events of 2020 so far. While coronavirus is very bad, it will eventually go away, but the climate crisis is becoming increasingly critical and calls for urgent action from the wine industry, he argues. He asks us as wine writers to start to ho...
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An extremely expensive endeavour

Posted on by L.M. Archer
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The Cape Crusader: Rosa Kruger & The Old Vine Project

Posted on by Tim Atkin MW
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A cautionary tale of canfinement

Posted on by Amanda Barnes
An increasingly despairing Tony Harries loses it during lockdown and runs out of supplies. Faced with a difficult choice between two foraged cans of beer and one old bottle of wine that’s way past its best, which will serve to quench our hero’s thirst?    I’m going to share a first-world tale of a wine writer. It might shock, it might make you laugh and there might even be one or two who are reac...
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Soaking up sake

Posted on by Jochen Erler
sake
Ever the keen learner, on his cruise to the Far East, Jochen Erler takes time out to sip some sake at source. As a professional taster of wine and spirits, with some experience as a beer taster in competitions, I have long been intrigued by the similarities between producing beer and whisk(e)y on the one hand, and sake (rice wine) and its distillate on the other. Both have water and grain as thei...
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