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11/09/2025

Flint Vineyard English sparkling charmat method rosé, from the people who probably don't want another person mentioning chicken roundabout again. So let's just say the sparkling rosé and the white are well balanced, low-ish residual sugars for a clean mineral finish.

10/09/2025

Mallard Point recently won Harpers Wine & Spirit: Get engaged design awards for commitment to sustainability and so it was nice to meet, and taste their wines. Rather fond of the Col Fondo sparkling.

09/09/2025

One of the highlights from the trade tasting a natural sparkling rosé from Ancre Hill Estates in Monmouth, Wales.

13/08/2025

Been a tad slow posting on the wine front having had a summer of music, especially building the bass rig, now a combination of Fender, Gibson, Markbass & Ashdown, and just finishing off the flight case made by me!

Fender Gibson Guitar Showroom. Ashdown Engineering

03/02/2025

Hmm, an interesting day to be tasting a range of Canadian wines. We're starting off with a dry Riesling and two Chardonnay wines from British Columbia. Excellent.

30/01/2025

Today looking at alternatives to Burgundy at the Australia & NZ trade event. More than a couple of outstanding wines, inc. Hunter's Marlborough and Kelly Washington, Central Otago both NZ wines.

22/01/2025

Second trade tasting this week and the second time a Beaujolais wine has been one of the outstanding wines on show. Interesting. Kewin Descombes on the outskirts of Morgon, nice find from graftwine

16/01/2025

First tasting of the year is Awin Barratt Siegel Wine Agencies en primeur Burgundy event. Richard Rottiers (l) and Julien Duport are Brouilly based winemakers mainly Gamay although Julienne has a Beaujolais villages white also. A real variation across their respective wines.

09/12/2024

Ok, that's a wrap! My last column this year for The Wine Merchant Magazine is a film review of Widow Clicquot.

The January diary is already filling up with a host of trade events to cover. Charles Taylor, Thorman Hunt and Bancroft get in early whilst Liberty, Jeroboams, Justerini & Brooks, Howard Ripley and Lay & Wheeler all host Burgundy en primeur tastings on the same day. Am looking forward to that one!

Over the next few days, will post highlights from the Autumn portfolio tastings that I didn't get round to covering at the time, whilst also taking it easy stuffing my face with mince pies and sampling the odd bottle too, which we'll call 'work'.

14/11/2024

More to NZ than Marlboro Sauvignon. This Riesling is low on residual sugar and packs crunchy fruit with enough acidity to cut through.

29/10/2024

A Cabernet Franc from the Lofi Winery, from Santa Barbara County, lighter than the Loire version. Less of the pencil shavings, more red fruit.

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