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In Niagara (15) King and Victoria
Website: https://kingandvictoria.com/ King and Victoria are based in the Twenty Mile Bench appellation of Niagara, Canada. They own the Hanck vineyard, which is right next to the Wismer Parke...
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Discovering the Mâconnais (6) Domaine Gilles et Sylvie Guerrin
Website: www.gillesguerrin-vins.com/ Meeting with Blandine Guerrin. Vergisson, a small, pretty village, is found between the Vergisson (pictured above) and Solutré rocks that are emblematic of the...
View ArticleHighlights: Roebuck Rosé de Noirs 2018 Sussex, England
I’m a big fan of English fizz house Roebuck, whose wines I’ve reviewed here before a few times (here, here and here). This is another good one, just released. Roebuck Rosé de Noirs 2018 Sussex,...
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Everflyht: a journey into regenerative viticulture with this excellent...
Website: https://www.everflyht.com/ This was an interesting day out. I headed down to Ditchling in West Sussex with a group of buyers from The Wine Society to focus on regenerative viticulture at...
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The Swedish Wine Tasting, putting Sweden on the wine map
Website: https://www.theswedishwinetasting.com/ The event that put Swedish wines on the map! At the end of August 2024 a group of tasters were gathered to taste Swedish wines blind, paired with...
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In Niagara (16) MW Cellars, offering quality and value
What kind of person opens up two wineries in 2 months? Marty and Rachael Werner, of course, following up the launch of York, a sparkling wine project, with MW Cellars. ‘The York project has been going...
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30 years of Siepi: tasting the 2007-2022 vintages of this famed...
Website: https://uk.mazzei.it/ Giovanni Mazzei was in town to celebrate the 30 th anniversary of the launch of Siepi, a special super-Tuscan wine from the Chianti Classico area, and one of the leading...
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Exploring Swedish wine (10) Flädie Mat & Vingård
Website: https://fladiematvingard.se/en/ Flädie Mat & Vingård is located just outside Lund. It and old farm that was first built in 1817. In 2003 restaurateur Nils-Bertil Hansson transformed this...
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Exploring Swedish wine (2) Thora Vingård
Website: https://www.thoravingard.com/ We lunched in the Flora restaurant at Thora Vineyard, which opened this summer, and were hosted by Daniella Lund, a sommelier with winemaking experience who will...
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Exploring Swedish wine (3) Ljungbyholms Vingård
Website: https://ljungbyholmsvingard.se/ Next stop was a farm in the heart of Bjäre Wine Country, on a southern slope between Förslöv and Vejbystrand. The farm itself is 100 hectares, but there are...
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Exploring Swedish wine (4) Arilds Vingård
Website: https://arildsvingard.se/ Arilds vineyard is the largest in Sweden, and is based in north-west Skåne. Owners Annette and Jonas Iverson began the project in 2007, beginning with 5000 vines....
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Exploring Swedish wine (5) Kullabergs Vingård
Website: https://kullabergs.se/english Kullabergs Vingård is based at the tip of the Kulla Peninsula, and has 18 hectares under vine. We arrived to find them on a high, after taking first place in the...
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Exploring Swedish wine (6) Lottenlund Estate
Website: https://www.lottenlundestate.se/en/ Manfred and Tina Tina Berthelsen is the owner of Lottenlund estate, in Allerum near the town of Helsingborg. With her partner, Manfred, they bought their...
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Exploring Swedish wine (7) Skepparps Vingård
Website: https://www.skepparpsvingard.se/ Located close to Brösarp and Haväng in Österlen, Skepparps has something unusual in Sweden: a hillside vineyard. Owner Bengt Åkesson took us on a tour through...
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Exploring Swedish wine (9) Jesper Friberg
Jesper Friberg is a freelance winemaker with wide experience internationally. He worked for a year in Felton Road, and spent three years in France including vintage at Lapierre in Morgon and then with...
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Exploring Swedish wine (8) Flyinge Vingård
Website: https://www.flyingevingard.com/ Vombsänkan, where Flyinge is located, is the historic horse region in Sweden, and horses have been bred here from the middle ages. In 2009 Magnus Oskarsson and...
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Exploring Swedish wine (1) introduction
I’ve just spent a few days exploring Sweden’s vineyards, which are mostly based in Skåne in the south of the country. And most of these are located close to the coast where the proximity to the sea...
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Quinta da Vacariça, a French sommelier making biodynamic wines in Portugal’s...
François Chasans was a sommelier in France, and he first came to Portugal in 1998. He came for an agricultural fair in Santarem (in the Tejo region), and there he tried his first Bairrada wine. He was...
View ArticleHighlights: Mersel Elevate Marini 2021 Bekaa Valley, Lebanon
Time for something very different, and quite wonderful. Mersel Elevate Marini 2021 Bekaa Valley, Lebanon12.5% alcohol. This is from the Marini variety grown at 1800 m in Blouza, Lebanon. The vines are...
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Russian River Valley, Sonoma, California (6) Benovia
Website: https://benoviawinery.com/ Benovia is a really impressive Russian River Valley winery that began in 2005. It’s a partnership between Joe and Mary Anderson and Mike Sullivan who makes the...
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