In the past few months the unusual Savoyard grape Persan attracted attention from American wine lovers in New York and from Vinocamp – the French social media and wine meet-ups. Itâs as if there is a rare Alpine grape ripple effect, or perhaps a wonderful spiderâs web in which wine professionals and geeks tiptoe around… View more
The new Wine Grapes book by Jancis Robinson, Julia Harding and JosĂ© Vouillamoz is now weighing down my book shelf, or more often grappling for space on my desk or dining room table. However, I have resisted taking this heavy tome on the plane to Turkey where I have come in advance of EWBC 2012…. View more
January is abstention or certainly moderation month for many. Out on the web, the world may notice that wine communicatorsâ blogs, tweets and FB statuses are somewhat more sober than usual: recipes for special juices, angst about resolutions made or not made, and declarations of resolutions kept or broken break through the usual wine tasting… View more
Some news. Firstly, this is a new website and blog for me, which will keep you up-to-date with everything I’m doing. I’m deserting Blogger and the Winey Wink blog, all the previous posts have been fed in to this WordPress.com blog and I will continue to post here when I have something new to share…. View more
The Muscat grape variety has always appealed to me, because of two particular attributes, possibly linked. Firstly, the simple one that it is a wine educatorâs dream to discuss â we can say to students: âYes, this is the only major grape variety from which wines generally do smell of grapesâ. And secondly, Muscat (in… View more
Readers of this blog and other articles I write will know that Iâve developed a speciality of wines of the Jura, Franceâs smallest wine region. Since Jura is synonymous with Vin Jaune, the curious wine from the Savagnin grape, I often mention and discuss it. But now, Iâve fallen for another curious yellow wine â… View more
