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Gotsa Family Wines back home in Blighty
You may remember I have already posted about our visit to Gotsa Family Wines, and I mentioned in that post we were able to bring four bottles back with us. It is often the case that wines taste so much … Continue reading
Untamed: 8000 Vintages of Georgian Wine – book review
Untamed: 8000 Vintages of Georgian Wine by Anna Saldadze, hardback, available online from various places for £25. My initial impression on opening the book was very favourable. It is not exactly what I would call a coffee-table book, as its … Continue reading
Thymiopoulos wines from Naoussa and Rapsani
I first came across Thymiopoulos in 2015, on a press trip in Northern Greece. They had a modest table in the corner of a walk-around tasting of Naoussa producers. At the end of a long day of eating well, drinking … Continue reading
The wines of Bulgaria, Romania and Moldova – book review
This is a review of The wines of Bulgaria, Romania and Moldova by Caroline Gilby, published by Infinite Ideas. The RRP is £30.00 and it doesn’t seem easy to get it cheaper than that now, but I bought mine with a … Continue reading
Intrinsic wine faults – do they exist?
As discussed by Jamie Goode in his book Flawless, a wine flaw may be said to be a characteristic of wine that is present to such an extent that it impacts on quality – it causes a wine to be less attractive … Continue reading
When is a flaw not a fault? When it’s a taint
I have been doing a lot of thinking about wine faults recently – firstly as a result of attending a wine faults workshop organised by Jancis Robinson and her team, then through considering some comments about homemade wines in Eastern Europe … Continue reading
How I got hooked on wine
Origins are often shrouded in the mists of time, and alternative versions of the origin narrative develop. My love of wine is no different, and two stories emerge from the vinous haze. The first is more outward-looking. I started going to wine tastings … Continue reading
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Homemade wine – eliminate or celebrate?
In Caroline Gilby’s recent book The wines of Bulgaria, Romania and Moldova, she is rather scathing of homemade wine. She explains how it is estimated to account for up to half the wine consumption of Bulgaria, and is regarded by the locals as an authentic product, from the heart, and … Continue reading
Wine snobbery, and how to discourage it
A few years ago I wrote about wine snobs, but I am not entirely happy with that post. It was mainly a mini-rant about how the media bandies the term around. That still annoys me, and it is increasingly done … Continue reading
Tsigani Gogo, a Georgian wine by Laura Siebel & Niki Antadze
For several reasons I found this wine both interesting and distinctive. Delicious too. The first impression is the striking label, presumably depicting a tsigani gogo (gypsy girl), and the unusual blue bottle with a red wax seal. Now blue is … Continue reading