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What on earth are enzymes? 2 Sep 2012 | 06:50 pm
Certain aspects of winemaking - yeasts, oak-ageing, filtration and fining are pretty clear but what about the use of enzymes? Even the comprehensive Authentic Wine by Jamie Goode and Sam Harrop only c...
Le Raisin et L'Ange, Fable 2009 18 Aug 2012 | 09:58 pm
This is exactly the sort of red I like to drink in summer - well, to tell the truth most times of the year. We ordered it on our way back from France when we stopped another night at the Auberge de C...
L'Ami Chenin: a good place to stay in the Loire 13 Aug 2012 | 01:37 am
Here’s another good place to stay if you’re a natural wine fan - L’Ami Chenin in Saumur which we - or more accurately - my diligent researcher of a husband - chose because it was just down the road fr...
Fête du Vin, Chassignolles - small but perfect 6 Aug 2012 | 12:33 am
There was music. There was dancing. There were three days of feasting - and of course there was wine - litres of it! The tiny fête du vin the the Auvergne village of Chassignolles two weekends agom ma...
How do natural wines last so long once you open them? 2 Aug 2012 | 04:36 pm
Last night we got back to France and shared the remains of a bottle of Mas Coutelou’s Le Vin Des Amis 2011* we’d left in the fridge a week before. It was delicious - as good as the night we’d opened i...
Why Noma serves natural wine 1 Aug 2012 | 04:27 am
As if natural wine needed a boost right now along comes this interview on eater.com with Noma's wine director Pontus Elofsson on why Noma has turned its back on Bordeaux and is serving natural wines, ...
Thierry Germain of Domaine des Roches Neuves: taking his wines to new heights 29 Jul 2012 | 08:26 pm
It was pouring the day we visited Thierry Germain of Domaine des Roches Neuves in the Loire the week before last. Absolutely tipping down. And it was a leaf day so the fact his wines tasted so great w...
Vincent et Marie Tricot: a new find in the Auvergne 27 Jul 2012 | 04:16 am
The problem about wine fairs is that there's just too much to take in. Even at a small fête du vin like the one we went to at the weekend at Chassignolles in the Auvergne My normal rule is to try a m...
The problems of being ‘bio’ in Bordeaux 16 Jul 2012 | 12:28 am
You might quite reasonably wonder if I’ve stopped drinking natural wine. Gone over to the dark side and started quaffing Blossom Hill. But no. The absence of posts simply reflects the fact I’ve been m...
Mas Coutelou, Puimuisson: the extraordinary natural winemaker on our doorstep 6 Jun 2012 | 04:38 pm
It’s more than a little ironic that having chased round France - and further afield - seeking out natural winemakers I should find an exceptional one in the next door village to ours in the Languedo.....
