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THAT CRAZY FRENCH WOMAN | The lowdown on additives, ‘woca-wola’ and proper natural wine
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The lowdown on additives, ‘woca-wola’ and proper natural wine. For me, natural wines are about coming full circle and going back to basics and simplicity. They are real and raw. There is no official definition of ‘natural wine’ so here is one that I have come up with after a lot of tasting, reading and talking to producers. It's basically good old grape juice fermented into wine. As nature intended. The cellar is simply the place to guide what is fundamentally a naturally occurring phenomenon rather than...
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Credit Crunch Drinking: July 2011
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Great value wine, beer and spirits. Sunday, July 31, 2011. Tillington Hills Premium Cider. What kind of wine can you buy for £2.65? Well, you probably can find one but would you serve it to your friends? This upmarket cider, on the other hand, would look good on any table. It's made from fruit grown on the Co-op farms. Posted by Fiona Beckett. Tuesday, July 19, 2011. Good Bibendum wine sale but get in quick! Wines I'd pick out for credit crunch drinkers are the Argento range from Argentina which are now ...
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Credit Crunch Drinking: December 2010
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Great value wine, beer and spirits. Wednesday, December 29, 2010. Champagne offers for New Year’s Eve. Having gone quiet for a couple of weeks the supermarkets now seem to be having a last thrash to get our custom for New Year's Eve. And inevitably it’s focussed on champagne. Is now the one discounting Heidsieck Monopole Blue Top Brut NV I wrote about. A couple of weeks ago down to £13 from £27.99 although my husband said it was sold out earlier. (Asda has it for £17.). It's interesting how similar these...
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Credit Crunch Drinking: February 2011
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Great value wine, beer and spirits. Saturday, February 26, 2011. Two good Fairtrade reds. Having been quite critical about Fairtrade wines in my Guardian column. Today it's good to find a couple of recommendable wines I didn't have an opportunity to taste before I filed my copy. Both come from Sainsbury's top level Taste the Difference range, a welcome indication they take the quality of Fairtrade wines seriously. Taste the Difference Leap Point Fairtrade Pinotage 2010. They also have a couple of whites ...
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Credit Crunch Drinking: Good value Rioja - to drink with lasagne!
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Great value wine, beer and spirits. Friday, July 15, 2011. Good value Rioja - to drink with lasagne! One of the wines that did best in the What Food What Wine. Competition results that were announced this week was Campo Viejo's 2008 Rioja Crianza which we voted the best wine to drink with lasagne ('we' being a pretty high-powered group of industry judges including 4 Masters of wine and one of London's top sommelier). Posted by Fiona Beckett. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). THIS BLOG HAS MOVED! Good B...
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Credit Crunch Drinking: Two Iberian white wine bargains
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Great value wine, beer and spirits. Thursday, July 7, 2011. Two Iberian white wine bargains. Inevitably this blog mainly concerns itself with special offers but here are two terrific under £5 whites from The Wine Society. Which looks increasingly good value against the supermarkets. My favourite by a whisker is the Bodegas Virgen de la Sierra Cruz de Piedra Macabeo 2010. The other is a crisp Portuguese white called Real Lavrador from the Alentejo, 2010 ( not up on the site yet. Posted by Fiona Beckett.
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Credit Crunch Drinking: June 2011
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Great value wine, beer and spirits. Saturday, June 25, 2011. More cheap Waitrose wine buys. As I mentioned the day before yesterday Waitrose has a 25% off promotion across all its wines until Tuesday night. Arc du Rhone 2009 Côtes du Rhône. A good gutsy Côtes du Rhône from the excellent 2009 vintage * *. La Umbra Merlot 2009. It's been a while since we've seen Romanian wine on the shelves but this is a really good fruity Merlot that I reckon would be great with robust pasta dishes like lasagne. * *.
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Credit Crunch Drinking: April 2011
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Great value wine, beer and spirits. Tuesday, April 19, 2011. Cortello 2008: a bargain Portuguese red. We're all inclined to think the best bargains come from supermarkets but here's an amazing buy from The Wine Society, which once you pay the once-off £40 fee to join offers some great deals. It's a wine I came across at a Portuguese supper. The other night but was amazed to find was only £4.95 on the Wine Society's list. Posted by Fiona Beckett. Tuesday, April 12, 2011. Not a particularly rewarding trip ...
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Integrity Wines – Importing and Marketing Natural Wines
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Blogs and Sites We Like. Eric Asimov - New York Times. The Brooklyn Guy Loves Wine. Not Drinking Poison in Paris. A nice story from Massimiliana with Castello di Tassarolo:. They recently rescued a 12 month old horse. A great story behind their great wines! We are now currently offering their Titouan Gavi. Which was in the May 2013 Decanter with 93 pts! Here are some cool pictures from San Polino, one of our great producers from Tuscany! Brunello di Montalcino 2006-. A rich and velvety wine with berry, m...
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Credit Crunch Drinking: March 2011
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Great value wine, beer and spirits. Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Vega Sindoa Cabernet Sauvignon: a stonking Spanish red. Spain seems to be offering particularly good value at the moment as this bottle proves. It's a 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserva. From Vega Sindoa in Navarra which is next door to Rioja but they tend to make their wines in a more forward international style. Posted by Fiona Beckett. Friday, March 25, 2011. Yes, wine duty HAS gone up again. Most retailers are saying that they won't be putting...
