The 2014 edition of the Real Wine Fair was my first proper wine event. Two intense days packed with tasting, attending presentations given by experts, plunging into the completely unknown with Georgian wines and still remembering great wines made by the likes of Olivier Pithon, Elisabetta Foradori and Anton Van […]
Something new! As mentioned in my previous post, there are a couple of changes upcoming, one of them being more attention being paid to matching food with wine. Those sommelier studies have to count for something, right? First up, risotto vs. Chardonnay! Spring is upon us, which means that it […]
Attentive readers will recall my presentation of A Proper Claret, one of the many wines produced at the Bonny Doon Vineyard. I gave a brief introduction on Randall Grahm, founder of and winemaker at the Vineyard and I recently stumbled on his latest venture, crowdfunding the creation of 10,000 new […]
A lot of people who start getting into wine tend to get too serious, often forgetting that it should just be plain fun. Wine should first and foremost be something to enjoy. You can analyse it all you want afterwards, coming up with a complete herbarium to describe it but […]