I wrote recently on my top 10 wine monents of 2020 – an exercise in focusing on the bright moments in an otherwise challenging year. Here I share five wine-related things I’m looking forward to this year.
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With an attempt to channel some optimism and to look on the bright side of things, here are some of my top wine moments of 2020.
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Wine regions are often referred to as appellations. The word comes into English from old French, and essentially means a name or designation.
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In this short video, I introduce my new infographic wine guides and give you a tour of what you can find inside.
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For my second case for lockdown I also went local. Though this time a local wine maker rather than a local wine merchant.
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The four bottles of wine I’d brought up lasted (predictably) four days and now the reality set in of an indeterminate period of extended lockdown dawned.
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I’ve been doing some research into Bordeaux wines lately and have written a definitive list of the wine regions of Bordeaux.
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Taking another bend, the road narrows further. The beech trees bow together to enclose us in an emerald tunnel and the hawthorn scrapes at the wing mirrors.
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We don’t actually taste with our tongues...
Our nose and tongue merely generate electrical signals in response to what we chew or sip.
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For this place – Kahketi, at the foot of the Caucasus mountains – is not only the home of Georgian wine: it is the home of all wine.
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In my wine scoring system, wines are scored in three categories: Quality (out of 4); Value (out of 3); and the ‘X-factor’ (out of 3).
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Wines are a hodgepodge of numbers: the alcohol content, the volume of the bottle, the barcode number, the vintage. The price.
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