By billn on February 7, 2012
A good-old story. Lucky really, no-one would have believed those bottles with TJ etched on them anyway…
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By billn on February 6, 2012
It’s old news (for some) but this is a captivating narrative from Jay McInerney, brought to the fore by current discussions of wine auctions.
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By billn on February 5, 2012
You may remember that it was the Maison Bejot that purchased Maison Thomas-Moillard from the family Thomas. Film-maker Jean-Baptiste Avril has made a very pretty (and not too long!) film to reflect one vintage at Maison Bejot – nice! BEJOT – Vins & Terroirs from jb avril on Vimeo. www.jb-avril.com
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By billn on February 5, 2012
It’s the same every year; the orange berries on this tree are completely ignored until we have a severe frost – the frost can be January or it can be like yesterday’s -15°C – then the mistle thrushes appear and devour them all. They patiently wait in the higher trees for their ‘turn’; I counted fourteen (when they stood still for a moment) in the garden yesterday, until Carlo the cat made a poor effort at trying to catch one – to be fair, his charge through 20cm of fluffy snow was never going to be a thing of elegance! The tree is now stripped bare, it only took one day, but the birds remain, surfing through the snow looking for those berries they dropped [....]
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By billn on January 31, 2012
When the fraud squad raided Verget from Verget on Vimeo.
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By billn on January 28, 2012
Hot from the presses this weekend: Some newish producer recs from Jancis Australian ‘grand cru’ whites Thibault on holiday! Thinking about listing links like those above, you may, or may not, be interested in how some people end up here, or hereabouts. To the right is a summary of last year’s referrals (links) to this site. If you were to drill down on the ‘search engines’ you see what an effective monopoly of searches Google has; Yahoo and Bing combined reach a measly total of about 2,500 views. Twitter, despite media-darling status, was way down the list with 308 views. Maybe I should consider using it more – but then I never was much of a ‘pusher’!
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By billn on January 20, 2012
Some links that are maybe of interest to: Photographers Potential Oregon pint-drinkers EP Buyers Those pricing the wine in their cellars Those who believe in the resurrection (somebody should tell them!) We all know that’s enough now!!!
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By billn on January 11, 2012
I want the stuff from above the road please! I liked this irreverent series of Oz Clarke and James May, but actually missed the episode where they visited Burgundy. Well here it is, and good fun too!
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By billn on December 7, 2011
A heart-felt piece here. I always think wtf (sorry…) when I hear of Spain being an ‘up-and-coming’ wine-region; I mean, how lazy is that? It simply suggests to me that I can’t trust what the writer is going to type next. Ryan’s Catavino piece (above) simply paints a picture of a region (sorry, country) with wine-styles so diverse that people around the world haven’t the basic knowledge to buy a Spanish wine, and that’s clearly not helped by producers that have clutched in desperation at every available style, process and presentation. The essential problem is that people think of Spanish wine as an entity, and while you might also hear the phrase ‘French wine’, buyers of French wine are usually buying Burgundy or Bordeaux (or [....]
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By billn on December 3, 2011
My favourite blog post of the year… JS: Pan, while we are your lawyers, we can’t take responsibility for your cojones. [here]
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By billn on December 2, 2011
http://www.timatkin.com/articles?272 Just a lovely, irreverent, humorous article – actually by Brian Miller and originally published by www.winestate.com.au – but I didn’t find it there… A much more rigorous read about the soil for ‘finicky’ grapes can be found here. [archive]
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By billn on November 19, 2011
A fun read… [archived]
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