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Can You Feel the Funk?
Why natural wine aficionados don't like the term funky
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How Challenging is it to Make Natural Wine in China?
An interview with winemaker Ian Dai
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Interview with Ian Dai
Listen now (31 mins) | An unedited 30 minute audio extract from my chat with one of China's leading natural winemakers
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Six Chinese Orange Wines
A headline I couldn't have written a decade ago - and details of six delicious skin fermented white wines that I chose for a masterclass in Shanghai…
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October 2024

Let's Meet Up!
Events during winter 2024 and a quick update from the road.
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Hail Czar!
The €7,500 wine you never heard of, from the Portuguese island of Pico
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How Popular is Orange Wine?
I found some alternative metrics that show the rise of the category
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The Winemaker's Secret Success Factor
What I learned from Czech natural wine supremo Milan Nestarec
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My Lebanese Love
Is Château Musar still as exciting as it seemed all those years ago?
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Should We Fear the Death of Big Wine?
And What it Means for the Natural Wine Sector
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Top Wines from the Single Vineyard Summit, Part 2
My favourites from Leithaberg, Eisenberg and Styria, tasted at this year's ÖTW Grafenegg tasting.
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September 2024

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