Daniel’s in the Douro with Crasto at harvest… The second day started in the laboratory. Some might see this as the evil of modern winemaking that smothers the romance but I disagree, when used correctly it is a sound basis for backing up human experience and decision. A quick ...
Cyriaque, Sales Manager for Yorkshire, is just back from a customer visit to Italy’s north east…
We arrived in Venice, direction Ruggeri – a 5th generation Prosecco wine producer in Valdobbiadene – for what promised to be a full-on gastronomic experience, including dinner in one of the most intriguing restaurants in ...
When a wine producer suggests that he’d like to set up a 10 year vertical tasting of Sauvignon Blanc from the Southern Hemisphere, your first reaction might not immediately be ‘great idea!’ But when the wine producer in question is Andrew Gunn of Iona in Elgin, South Africa, you a) ...
Daniel Hart, Portugal buyer is at Crasto this week for harvest…
The vintage proper started in earnest today at Quinta Do Crasto in the Douro. Most of the whites had been brought in a few weeks ago when a wet weather front hit the region, delaying the start for reds after ...
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Yesterday tasted through the top 2010s from Reichsrat von Buhl. The dry Grosses Gewaechs Rieslings were dynamite. The vintage in Germany was famously acidic, but these wines also had 13% alcohols and immense levels of dry extract. At von Buhl they seek to produce a mineral style, so ...
Planeta, the Sicilian wine family, have a well-earned reputation for their environmental initiatives which go hand in hand with every project they undertake. In each of their wineries every effort is made to minimise energy expenditure and disruption to the surrounding environment, and often they have restored existing buildings in ...