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Armenia’s Areni cave: The oldest wine cellar in the world

by  |  11-11-2016 ~ 4 Comments

Going on a trip to experience Armenian wine, thanks to the Vine & Wine Foundation isn't really complete without a stop to the Areni-1 cave complex. This natural cave right next to the village of... more »

In The Glass: Vinyes d’en Gabriel – Cuvilà 2014

by  |  09-11-2016

As I mentioned in the article about the vintage of 2014, it was not an easy year and a rough go for the winemakers. In general, there seemed to be two camps in dealing with... more »

A review of “Priorat” (The Movie!)

by  |  07-11-2016 ~ 7 Comments

The opening night of the Most Festival saw the premiere of, "Priorat" a documentary created to tell the story of the rebirth of a wine region that nearly faded in to the sands of time.... more »

Finding ’14 & La Festa de la Verema

by  |  04-11-2016

Two years back, I wrote an account of the 2014 harvest which is where the photo above was from. It was nasty. What wasn't desiccated was full of botrytis or then underripe and green. It... more »
Mount Ararat and new vineyards

An introduction to Armenian wines

by  |  01-11-2016 ~ 5 Comments

Armenia, along with Georgia, Azerbaijan, Northern Iran, and Eastern Turkey all form this "Cradle of Wine" region in the Caucasus Mountains where we currently believe the winemaking we know today to have started. Georgia has... more »
A small corner of Georgia near the sea town of Batumi.

Real World wines

by  |  31-10-2016

Old World wine regions can be summed up as "Europe" and then New World wine regions are essentially everything else. This is a pretty classic definition of wine and has seen us placing Bordeaux, France... more »

Abadal – 3.9 2011

by  |  29-10-2016

There are some DOs in Catalonia that are relatively unknown such as, Pla de Bages. Located very close to Barcelona, this lesser known aspect is due not to the amount of production but the fact... more »
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Traditional kvevri opening

by  |  21-10-2016

[vimeo 188176051] While traversing across all of Georgia for a new wine book, I saw many things and then, when I arrived to the "Ancestral Wine Cellar" in Kakheti, I saw a few more. The... more »

When making (experiments in) wine

by  |  20-10-2016 ~ 1 Comment

Much like when an actor decides to record a music album, it takes a pretty arrogant wine writer to decide to make wine and even more so for a sommelier. Given that I'm both of... more »

Saperavi’s untapped ageability

by  |  19-10-2016

The Republic of Georgia producers about 100 million liters annually. This barely places them in the Top 25 of wine producing countries and given that about 75% of this total is white wine, you can... more »