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Simon J Woolf & Friends on Wild and Wonderful Wines

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Some of the wines we tasted
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Decanter’s first major natural wine tasting

What’s the biggest problem with organising a natural wine tasting? Defining the parameters ranks very high. Also, if one publicises the results with any level of exposure, being prepared to fight off the negative, trolling comments is sadly a serious undertaking.

Stephen Brook - The Wines of Austria (front cover, paperback)
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Stephen Brook: The Wines of Austria – reviewed

The decision to launch a new series of books about wine in 2016 is a brave one, but that’s just what publisher Infinite Ideas has done. The first nine titles in “The Classic Wine Library” are now available, including two written Read more

cloudy day vineyards near motovun
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Istria’s best wines – a brief round up

Decanter magazine’s September 2014 issue features my regional profile of Istria, arguably Croatia’s finest wine region – an area deserving a lot more attention than it currently gets. The wines and producers recommended in that article were necessarily constrained by what Read more