Malbec - 2013

Industry News

Why are there no new blog posts?

The observant among you will notice that there are no new blog posts being added to this site. And that the posts from the blog over September are no longer......

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The wines of Champagne Taittinger, revisited

With an annual production of 6.5 million bottles, Taittinger is the sixth largest Champagne house. Its family owned (with help from Credit Agricole Bank) and run, and they have 712......

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Discovering vineyards in the Languedoc

I’m currently in the Languedoc region of southern France, on a discovery mission. I’m visiting lots of producers (most of whom are new to me) whose goal is to make......

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WT Vintners: boutique wines from Washington State

I first met Jeff Lindsay-Thorsen back in 2015, when I had a chance to taste through his wines at his garage winery in Woodinville, near Seattle. I was immediately impressed,......

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Orange wines are now a thing, but who invented the term?

The category of ‘orange wines’ – wines from white grapes that have been fermented on their skins – is now quite mainstream! In the last year, supermarkets in the UK......

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Houseparty in the Hollywood Hills with nice wines

So Friday night was fun. We headed over to a home in the Hollywood Hills. En route we stopped at DomaineLA, a brilliant wine shop, and stocked up. And then......

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Dinner at majordomo, LA, with nice wines

Jet-lagged as hell, after arriving early evening in LA and then working in the winery until 9 pm, I arrived at Major Domo, the talked-about new-ish (summer 2018) opening from......

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