The Morning Claret

Simon J Woolf & Friends on Wild and Wonderful Wines

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Overnoy - Pupillin (Photo courtesy Georges Le Gastronome)
4 minute read

Hashtag unicorn wines

Hannah rails against the dislikeable trend of bragging about #unicorn wines on social media

People not enjoying orange wine at all
6 minute read

“Orange wines are a sideshow and a waste of time”

“What’s the point of experimenting? We know how to make really good wine. Why do we want to throw away the formula and do something different?” Hugh Johnson, interviewed in the Washington Post, October 2016. Recently I’ve been wondering whether the Read more

Slurp back label
6 minute read

When slurping isn’t natural

I looked at the bottle three times, picked it up, took a photo on my phone. Something didn’t feel quite right. “This is simply a fabulous French no-nonsense natural wine…” screamed the label. And then further down, there it was Read more

donastia-vivanco-cellars
5 minute read

The background to my natural wine challenge

Last summer, I wrote an enthusiastic article about rawfair – a hugely popular natural wine tasting about to run its third edition this weekend. My enthusiasm centred on the unstuffy atmosphere and the amount of vinous adventure that could be had in Read more