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Six wine glasses of different shapes and saizes

Wine Glasses: What Do You Need?

  • Kevin Kevin
  • June 14, 2018June 25, 2018

Glasses What glass is best for your wine? This remains a hot topic, and one that isn’t completely clear (forgive a terrible pun). This is… Read More »Wine Glasses: What Do You Need?

Tasting room at the Zunfthaus zur Saffran in Zurich

Utiel-Requena: Bobal Steps Out of Bulk Wine’s Shadow

  • Kevin Kevin
  • May 24, 2018September 5, 2018

Utiel-Requena: Bobal Steps out of the Shadow of Bulk Wine The scene: southeast Spain, near to the Mediterranean A scant 70 kilometres (as the crow… Read More »Utiel-Requena: Bobal Steps Out of Bulk Wine’s Shadow

Old vines at Domaine Tempier

Wine Myths #3: Old Vines Make Better Wine

  • Kevin Kevin
  • April 30, 2018May 2, 2018

Wine Myths, Misconceptions and Misinformation #3: Old Vines Make Better Wine Nearly everybody knows that “old vines” make better wine. If you didn’t know that… Read More »Wine Myths #3: Old Vines Make Better Wine

Ripe bunch of Oseleta

Tannic Treasures of the Italian Peninsula

  • Kevin Kevin
  • April 24, 2018April 24, 2018

Five Tannic Native Italian Grapes Anybody who knows me and my wine-drinking habits knows that I really enjoy tannic red wines. I seem to gravitate… Read More »Tannic Treasures of the Italian Peninsula

Three wines with glass samples

Coravin Test Round Three – The Vintage Needle

  • Kevin Kevin
  • April 5, 2018April 5, 2018

Coravin Test Round 3 – The Vintage Needle Now this was exciting. Coravin has, in their arsenal, a smaller-bore needle that is specially-designed for use… Read More »Coravin Test Round Three – The Vintage Needle

A bottle of Seriously Cool Cinsault 2015 from Waterklooft

A Surprise from South Africa – “Seriously Cool Cinsault” from Waterkloof

  • Kevin Kevin
  • March 31, 2018April 1, 2018

If you think about wines from South Africa, chances are good that a grape called Cinsaut (or, if you prefer, CinsauLt) isn’t the first thing… Read More »A Surprise from South Africa – “Seriously Cool Cinsault” from Waterkloof

Monte Amiata

Montecucco: Sangiovese’s best-kept secret

  • Kevin Kevin
  • March 25, 2018October 8, 2018

What is Montecucco? We are in the warm south of Tuscany. Here, sandwiched between two well-known denominations specialising in Sangiovese, you will discover a third… Read More »Montecucco: Sangiovese’s best-kept secret

Six tasting glasses with Amarone 2014 vintage at the Anteprima amarone

Anteprima Amarone 50° – the 2014 Vintage

  • Kevin Kevin
  • February 26, 2018February 27, 2018

Anteprima Amarone 50° – Presentation of the 2014 Vintage It was a tough year, 2014, and not only in Valpolicella. Nearly every wine region in… Read More »Anteprima Amarone 50° – the 2014 Vintage

Road and vineyards

Natural Wines: Two Obstacles

  • Kevin Kevin
  • February 17, 2018February 19, 2018

The Obstacles for Natural Wines Before I launch into a long, nasty tirade about this very misunderstood area of wine, indulge me for a moment… Read More »Natural Wines: Two Obstacles

Eight bottles of vintage Amarone

Can Amarone Age?

  • Kevin Kevin
  • February 7, 2018February 17, 2018

Can Amarone della Valpolicella age? It isn’t as strange a question as it might seem. Not all wines age well, and most of the Amarone… Read More »Can Amarone Age?

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