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Austerity whites (Free for all)
18 hours 14 min agoSee tasting notes on more than 200 wines under £10 a bottle. Only once have I been criticised for the subject matter of my regular columns for the Financial Times . Some years ago a member of the traditional British wine trade ticked me off for stooping to mention some of the bargains then.
A quiet corner of St James's (Nick on restaurants)
18 hours 14 min agoAn email from friends in Australia presented me with an immediate, professional challenge. They were due to arrive in London in two days' time; they would be free on only one busy weekday evening; and they wanted to have dinner around 8 pm somewhere close to Green Park station. I knew that,.
Kyperounda, Petritis 2011 Cyprus (Wines of the week)
Thu, 05/23/2013 - 20:00From €7.80, £11.99, 18 Swiss francs Find this wine Some of the worst wine I have tasted since I started writing about wine was what was available the one time we went on holiday to the far-eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus in 1983. The whites showed the most old fashioned of faults,.
Enza La Fauci - high heels in the vineyard (Inside information)
Thu, 05/23/2013 - 20:00The day after my Faro tasting I was picked up from Messina by an elegantly clad lady who greeted me with a radiant smile while introducing herself as Enza La Fauci. She is the proprietor of a small estate of the same name in the Faro DOC. La Fauci does not show her wines at the annual Assovini.
Why does wine have to be in a bottle? (Free for all)
Wed, 05/22/2013 - 20:00Longstanding visitors to this site will know of my campaign against unnecessarily heavy bottles . I'm pleased that there is now much more awareness of the environmental cost of producing and transporting ridiculous bodybuilder bottles. Glass, being neutral in flavour, has served us well as a.
Faro - Sicily's new hotspot (Tasting articles)
Wed, 05/22/2013 - 20:00Readers may remember how only last year I raved about the Faro wines of two producers, Bonavita and Salvatore's Geraci's Palari estate . Faro is a tiny DOC perched on the windy hills at the very eastern tip of Sicily overlooking the straight of Messina. It was practically extinct when in 1996.
Best buys under £10 (Tasting articles)
Tue, 05/21/2013 - 20:00In your much-appreciated response to our recent survey , many of you said you'd like more coverage of less expensive wines. So here is a collection of tasting notes on more than 200 wines currently retailing in the UK for under £10 a bottle, including some really rather delicious ones - and some.
Spain - glasses not even half full (Don't quote me)
Tue, 05/21/2013 - 20:00We asked Ferran Centelles , our new Spanish specialist, to begin by surveying the state of wine in Spain today. Twenty years ago Spanish people used to drink an average of 32 litres of wine per capita and the Spanish market was experiencing a huge revolution towards quality. Recognised.
Why can't the French be nicer to wine? (Don't quote me)
Mon, 05/20/2013 - 20:00' Serve them good wine, they will make good laws', said Michel de Montaigne, one of the most popular philosophers in the world and former mayor of Bordeaux. This sentence should resonate in the corridors of the French Senate, at a time when a special committee proposes to raise taxes on.
Three new MWs (Free for all)
Mon, 05/20/2013 - 20:00In Vintners' Hall in London last night, at a dinner for the great and good of the international wine trade, I had the great pleasure of proposing the health of the Vintners' Company on its 650th anniversary. I had to adjust my speech at the last minute because of receiving news that the total.
German 2012s - Pfalz (Tasting articles)
Mon, 05/20/2013 - 20:00Jancis writes: Our German specialist Michael Schmidt tasted widely at the VDP's Weinbörse, its first showcase of 2012s, in Mainz at the end of last month, an experience he describes in Mosel Riesling 2012 - terroir v tradition? Below are his notes on 27 Pfalz 2012s. We'll be publishing the.
London's two wine fairs (Don't quote me)
Sun, 05/19/2013 - 20:00Wine professionals in London have a choice of two wine fairs to visit today: the first day of the London International Wine Fair at Excel exhibition centre in London's Docklands (on a Monday rather than a Tuesday for the first time) and the second and final day of the RAW wine fair, on which I.
Chianti vintage reports 2011/12 (Free for all)
Sun, 05/19/2013 - 20:00Michael Schmelzer of Monte Bernardi in Panzano reports on the last two vintages in Chianti Classico - and gives his verdict on the latest naming proposals there. Very early on, Mother Nature tested our resolve to farm biodynamically by giving us a tough vintage - the 2005. It was challenging for.
The drama of En Rama (Tasting articles)
Sun, 05/19/2013 - 20:00Every year, I use London's extremely useful Big Fortified Tasting to teach myself a lesson. In 2011 and 2012, the lessons were concerned with passing the MW practical examination. In 2013, with the exam now mercifully conquered , I could follow a more personal interest, so I embarked on a.
