The Morning Claret

Simon J Woolf & Friends on Wild and Wonderful Wines

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Milan Nestarec - Tramin 2013
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Orange weekly: Milan Nestarec – Antica Tramin 2013

Skin contact traminers are a bit like London buses – you don’t see one for ages, then all of a sudden, two appear at once. I discovered this Czech beauty from Milan Nestarec at last week’s Raw Fair – always an inspiring event, and a fertile hunting ground for orange wines.

Andreas Gsellmann (picture courtesy www.gsellmann.at)
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Orange weekly: Gsellmann – Traminer 2013

Every week, I select an orange wine (a white wine made with extended skin contact) that grabbed my attention. View the whole series here. There’s a bit of a myth that aromatic white varieties don’t work well with extended skin Read more

The wines of Alto Adige, in tweets

Technology can be a double-edged sword. Always-on internet and social media allow us to network and broadcast as never before, but that immediacy can sometimes be problematic. At last year’s European Wine Bloggers Conference, the organisers went to great pains Read more