by Miss Vicky Wine, http://missvickywine.blogspot.com
So I was going to write about Burgundy, or the Santa Cruz Mountains, and then … when following the beaujolais conversation on the Internet, I’ve started getting scared. Very few beaujolais drinkers seem to understand this region correctly, some drinkers that I can’t blame as they seem to be very badly informed. So from now on, I decided I should write an article a month on the region and …
by Rupert Bates
Bibendum’s latest contributor is Rupert Bates, a property journalist by day and keen imbiber by night. In this post, he puts the spotlight on Burgundy with three recent tasting notes…
English couple Su and David Bishop drank in the sights of Burgundy in Eastern France; bought a house between Beaune and Meursault and never looked back. Both in the building trade, they then …
by Andrew Barrow, http://www.spittoon.biz/
Readers of Spittoon will know I have a ’special relationship’ with Prosecco – that trendy, low-ish alcohol, Italian sparkling wine that I, and many of my friends, seem to be addicted to. There was a recent pop-up meal that matched Riccardo Proseccos to various courses (see Wine Passionista for a great atmosphere encompassing video) …
By Juel Mahoney http://www.winewomansong.co.uk/
I love reading wine tasting notes in Italian. I always want to sing it back. For example, what is a vino da meditazione? It’s an intriguing term often seen in Italian wine notes.
It looks like the word “meditation”, but it’s not quite.
Coined by famous Italian gastronome, Luigi Veronelli, meditazione is often used to describe sweet passito wines or …
By Andrew McCarthy, Bodegas Castro Martin, http://castromartin.blogspot.com/
We last heard from Andrew back in June when he reported that proto-grapes had started to appear on the Albarino vines. Here’s the lastest update from Galicia:
I imagine that today’s blog title might have grabbed your attention! Harvest? In July? What on earth is he talking about? Green harvest?
OK, so I confess, I don’t actually mean …
By Lucy Bridgers, http://winefoodotherpleasures.blogspot.com
I just love this. This is a project that you simply could not make up. For people living in the London area with grape vines growing in their gardens or allotments, a growers’ collective now exists that produces an ‘Urban Wine’ from these grapes.
What’s more, the wine is surprisingly palatable. I have now tasted this delicately hued rosé twice …
by Donald Edwards, sommelier and wine blogger at http://notesfromthedregs.blogspot.com
The Spanish idolise the bull, the Toro is hewn into their collective subconscious like no other nation.
1942 when Miguel Fariña started making wines might as well be in the era of the Aurochs for all the wines resemble those of modern Toro.
Harvest was on the 12th of October every year, no one stopped to …
by Gareth Groves
I love food, I love wine and I love cooking so when blogger and cookery teacher Rachel McCormack invited me to come along to one of her Catalan Cooking classes to talk about Catalan wines, I jumped at the chance.
Rachel’s classes – held at the delightful Beas of Bloomsbury – are not an attempt to turn you into the next Ferran Adria, but a …
by Robert Giorgione, http://robertfoodwinetravel.blogspot.com
Why is it that over the years wines produced from Chardonnay have got a bit of a bad rep? Why is it that we consider more positively and ‘affectionately’ enjoying a bottle of white Burgundy, as opposed to a ‘New World’ Chardonnay? Perhaps you have not realised it yet, but when you are enjoying a bottle of Meursault or Puligny-Montrachet, you …
By Vinos Ambiz, http://vinosambiz.blogspot.com/
The tasting table
This time I ‘only’ drove 140 km for a glass of wine. This time to Aranda de Duero, the main town in the DO Ribera de Duero wine region.
This was the second stop on the Catavino.es On Tour series of tastings planned for all over Spain. It was held in a nice place called …
