Old Man of La Mancha - de Sol a Sol Airén 2011
Never mind the special six course foraged dinner "010 020 Het Wilde", cooked by a crack team of chefs from Rotterdam and Amsterdam. The star of the show for me was de Sol a Sol - a thrilling, profound orange wine which transcends its seemingly extreme met
(Almost) every week, I select an orange wine (a white wine made with extended skin contact) that grabbed my attention. View the whole series here
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Last week at Choux (an all-time favourite Amsterdam restaurant of mine), I happened upon sommelier and founder Figo van Onna grinning at me, as he opened a bottle of this arrestingly labelled wine. "403 days on…
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