I’ve long said that finding good quality, international wines in Barcelona is difficult, but that’s increasingly less true as time passes by. The wine culture of this city is improving drastically and with it comes more options from around the world, whether it be in the form of ‘natural’ wines from Georgia and North-East Italy, […]
If you love Garnacha and you live in Spain, you can consider yourself very lucky, as I don’t think there’s ever been a better time for this wonderful grape variety in the history of our industry here. Garnacha is the 3rd most planted red grape in Spain and increasingly is being seen as a very […]
DO Ribera del Duero is an increasingly interesting place to discover wine. Like many Spanish wine regions, it seems to be coming into a phase of maturity, where the two worlds of tradition and modernity have resolved their differences and styles are starting to settle, with interesting projects splintering off, often falling somewhere between the […]
Is there a wine industry as mobile as Australia’s? I very much doubt it. For such a large country, the industry is tightly-knit, open-minded and as so many winemakers and critics take part in the annual judging circuit, ideas are constantly traded and considered. The result, along with the lack of Old World regulations, means […]
Jean Foillard is the producer who completely changed my perception of Beaujolais, and remains my favourite producer in the region to this day. When I first learnt about Beaujolais during my intensive week doing the WSET Level 3 Course in London, the focus of Beaujolais was Beaujolais Noveau and the use of carbonic maceration in […]