By Fabio Bartolomei, http://vinosambiz.blogspot.com/
All done! Grapes picked and crushed already! I have to check my notes from past years to be sure, but I get the impression that the harvest is earlier and earlier every year!
Picking
We picked the grapes on Saturday 27th August, and unusually, it was a very relaxed, no-stress, no-rush, family and children oriented day. …
By Malcolm Willatts
Some people hate Chardonnay. That’s a simple fact. Stop and think about that for a second. Not just dislike it or prefer other grape varieties, but actually HATE Chardonnay!
When you say Chardonnay to most ‘haters’ they think of a particular type of Chardonnay, usually buttery, cloying oaked Chardonnay, but this is only one style …
By Adam Partridge
I remember a very wise person once telling me that I should take a few moments out of each day to treat myself. It doesn’t matter whether it is a refreshing glass of wine at the end of a long day, or four chocolate cream filled eclairs. I’m sorry to say that I did once eat …
The Bibendum Times wine of the week post is usually our spot to wax lyrical about a wine we’ve been drinking recently, with a few random facts on the producer and the region they call home. Well this week we are bringing you our wine of the week with a difference, via the wonder that is …
By Andrew McCarthy, Bodegas Castro Martin, http://bodegascastromartin.com/blog/
As we arrive closer to harvest time with every day that passes, so we spend our days collecting and analysing grape samples. Of course the objective of this exercise is quite simple – to decide the optimum time to start picking.
On face value this might appear to be a very simple, straightforward task, but the reality …
By Adam Partridge
Boxes. Most of the time we’re being told to think outside of them, but how about being invited to touch and smell what’s in them?
This week we launched two new guest wines by the Catalonian winemaker Tomas Cusine at The Anthologist, an all-day bar and deli in the city. To reproduce the array of heady aromas and complex …
By Rob Pickard
We first saw this new range of single vineyard wines from d’Arenberg when Chester Osborn and the team fly over to the UK for the London International Wine Fair. The grapes for these beauties are sourced by Chester from individual plots throughout the McLaren Vale, and with small batch production, they firmly sit at the top …
By Kat Hounsell
“In his beak the stork brought a baby vine,” is , I feel, an appropriate twist on the Alsatian fable. The Alsace region of France, bordering on Germany, is home to a bountiful supply of fruitful vines and within the region can be found the village of Ribeauville. And in Ribeauville, one can find the oldest wine cooperative in France, …
The story of Priorat is one of the most amazing in wine. An isolated, deserted rocky wilderness to the south-west of Barcelona it has been transformed from a forgotten rural backwater to the home of Spain’s most expensive wine in just over 20 years…
By Kat Hounsell
Known to locals as 170km of happiness, the Alsace region of France is a patchwork blanket of some of the finest vines in the country. Vineyards wrap around the borders of charming little villages that are home to the finer things in life, such as world class Gewurztraminer and decadent foie gras. The local architecture has been heavily influenced by the Germans, …
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