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To boldly go? The wines of Yealands Estate

To boldly go? The wines of Yealands Estate

By Heather Dougherty
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November 26, 2018

Chief winemaker at Yealands, Natalie Christensen, was in London last week to show off the Awatere estate’s new releases, having just caught up with her extended family in Denmark. Yealands has made a name for itself as a maker of a grown-up style of Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc – and it...
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Ramos Pinto with Ana Rato

By Paul Quinn
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October 18, 2018

Ana Rato winemaker from Ramos Pinto presented a tasting of Port’s and wines at Storrs Hall near Windermere to Sommeliers and invited quests. We were introduced to Adriano Reserva White Port that Ana showed as an aperitif mixed with tonic, ice and mint, this was very refreshing. We then moved...
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Olivier Dauga – Le Faiseur de Vin

By Laura Clay
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August 8, 2018

Winemaker, consultant and wearer of natty shirts, Olivier Dauga, is a firm believer and advocate of sustainability and organic farming. Much of his work is based in and around Bordeaux with Univitis although his own property, Foncadaure, is further south in Roussillon and he consults for Vignerons Catalans, too. I...
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East meets west at Olivier Dauga dinner

By Heather Dougherty
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April 23, 2017

Olivier Dauga, the internationally renowned wine consultant and self styled “faiseur du vin”, is a colourful personality in more ways than one. He was in London recently to show wines from two of his clients – Kolonist Winery in Ukraine and Domaines Rollan de By in Bordeaux. Kolonist winery...
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Dream Creation

By Lindsay Oram
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September 22, 2016

Creation Wine Dinner High Timber Restaurant London Monday 5th September 2016 Carolyn and Jean–Claude Martin, both coming from winemaking families, clearly have wine in their blood. Carolyn was brought up in the South African Cape while Jean Claude originates from Switzerland. It was unsurprising a forgone conclusion, therefore, that they...
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Bodega Chakana

By Sarah Rowlands
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September 20, 2016

By Sarah Rowlands, The Wine Diamond wine.diamonds Sept 2016 A wine tasting from a pioneering Argentinian winery that has moved from conventional through organic to biodynamic winemaking. Arranged in conjunction with the Circle of Wine Writers and Planet Thirst, and given by Gabriel Bloise, winemaker and general manager. Chakana is...
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What the ‘Hecula’?

By Sarah Rowlands
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September 5, 2016

A wine tasting at Wined Up Here, Kingston with Daniel Castano from the pioneering producer, Bodegas Castano, Yecla DO the smallest, northernmost wine zone of Murcia, SE Spain by Sarah Rowlands August 2016 Yecla is the smallest and northernmost wine zone in Murcia, in SE Spain. Bodegas Castano is a...
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Kleine Zalze: Past, Present and Future

By Angela Reddin
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July 11, 2016

The South African Wine Company Kleine Zalze, who are situated in Stellenbosch, hosted a dinner and tasting to celebrate 20 years in business, and to illustrate their vision of the Company’s past, present and future direction in wine production which I was invited to. The venue was Medlar Restaurant...
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Wined Up Here with Greywacke

By Sarah Rowlands
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June 22, 2016

Kevin Judd visited Wined Up Here, Norbiton’s independent wine shop established in 2007. Owner Charlotte Dean arranged a tasting of the seven wines in his range. Here we discuss what makes one of his Sauvignons ‘Wild’ Mr New Zealand has been in town. Kevin Judd, winemaker at Greywacke and the...
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Crus Bourgeois 2013 selection tasting

By Heather Dougherty
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October 2, 2015

I approached this tasting, on 24 September in London, with a little foreboding. I had not heard much positive news about the 2013 vintage in Bordeaux and feared being faced with a raft of green-tasting, thin wines. Either that or harshly extracted wines with oak in lieu of fruit. However,...
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