Website: https://josepizarro.com/venues/jose-tapas-bar-bermondsey/ No reservations. Just rock up – early evening if you want to avoid the queues. This is a brilliant tapas bar. It’s small, intimate, and the food is amazing. The wine list is short and good: we ordered the amazing Abrazos by Reverte Garnacha 2023, which comes chilled. This is from Navarra, and… Read More »
The South African producer looks back on 20 years of wine growing. By David Williams In the second of a series of extended interviews with leading wine growers marking 20 years of The World of Fine Wine, South Africa’s Eben Sadie tells David Williams about his past two decades of wine growing. Vignerons’ stories: Katharina Prüm Eben… Read More »
Danbury Ridge explored the land because of its unique geological composition. John Atkinson MW, a consultant for Danbury Ridge, observed the quality of the 2020 Essex vintage ‘despite high rainfall’. This led him to investigate the soil properties, initially in collaboration with Lee Jones from the British Geological Survey. Atkinson then created a detailed map… Read More »
Website: https://hedgesfamilyestate.com/ Hedges Family Estate La Haute Cuvée 2019 Red Mountain, Washington State, USA13.5% alcohol. 93% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3.5% Petit Verdot, 3.5% Merlot; 93% Hedges Estate Vineyard, 7% Magdalena Vineyard. 27 months maturation in oak, 78% new, 76% French, 24% American. Biodynamic. Beautiful aromatics of spice-laden blackcurrant fruit with some tar and gravel notes. The… Read More »
The Mosel producer looks back on 20 years of wine growing. By David Williams In the first of a series of extended interviews with leading wine growers marking 20 years of The World of Fine Wine, Katharina Prüm of JJ Prüm in the Mosel tells David Williams about her experiences of wine growing over the… Read More »
Website: https://dobbinestate.com/ Dobbin is an exciting new winery on the Twenty Mile Bench in Canada’s Niagara region, and it’s based on a special terroir. Back in 2019, Peter Gamble received a call from Wade Dobbin, the owner of the property. Wade mentioned that he had a piece of land with a vineyard on it and… Read More »
Poor weather has hampered winemakers’ efforts to uproot vines this year as part of a ‘grubbing up’ scheme, said the Bordeaux wine bureau (CIVB). As of 10 July, more than 3,000 hectares (ha) of Bordeaux vines had been uprooted as part of a ‘sanitary grubbing-up plan’ co-funded by France’s Ministry of Agriculture and the CIVB,… Read More »
I’m fascinated by wild vines. We often see vines growing neatly in rows in vineyards, making it easy to forget that these are wild plants, typically growing as lianas. This term describes plants like the grape vine, which are structural parasites, using other plants for support. Plants compete for resources such as nutrients, water, and… Read More »
Website: www.domainefichet.fr Domaine Fichet is one of the most impressive of the Mâconnais domaines I’ve visited. They are based in Igé, a village of 900 people, many of whom make a living from wine. Run by brothers Pierre-Yves (vintage 1965, he looks after viticulture) and Olivier (winemaking), the current domaine was formed in 1988 and… Read More »
Margaret Rand on the couple behind one of Virginia’s most impressive wine estates. By Margaret Rand Margaret Rand meets Robert and MeiLi Hefner on their Ramiiisol estate, where they are pursuing a Jeffersonian dream of natural wine through determination, eclectic knowledge, and unconventional wisdom. We have to start somewhere, so why not with the Dallas… Read More »