Vineyards

The Pariah The Cabardès AOC is a tiny sub-region in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of Aude, France. Husband and wife winemakers, Stephanie and Olivier Rame are the third generation of their family to tend the vineyards...

On the Tasting Bench Famille Querre, ‘Le Moulin’ Brut Rose A sparkling wine made in the traditional ‘bottle fermented’ method, from 100% Merlot, in the heart of Pomerol! The Querre Family owns 36 hectares of vineyards...

A Thing of Kalimna I partly organized and then wholly attended a small ‘trade-&-friends’ dinner last week; it had a ‘bring-a-bottle’ theme, which is an ingenious way for trade to come together and taste, assess...

By all accounts, Joseph Drouhin was an enterprising young man. He came from the Chablis region in the far north of Burgundy and -at just 22 years of age- he moved to Beaune and...

Darren Gall picks 3 wines from our Cellar Lavau Condrieu, Viognier, Blanc 2012 The Condrieu region, Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée (AOC) sits in the northern Rhone, close to Vienne and just to the south of Côte-Rôtie. The...

  Catalina Sounds ‘Sound of White' Chardonnay, Marlborough New Zealand, 2019 From the Sound of White vineyard in the Waihopai Valley, Marlborough wine region, New Zealand. The ‘Sound of White’ is the sound of nothing, the...

On The Bench – Deutz Champagne Deutz Classic Brut NV Pale straw in colour with lemon hues and faint accents of salmon pink suggesting Noir and Meunier. The bead is fine, persistent. Perfumed aromas of...

 The Beast Mont Ventoux; for the world's finest cyclists its name is legend, “The Beast of Provence”, a will-sapping, heart-breaking, soul-destroying stage of the world’s most famous bicycle race, the Tour de France. When...