This one I have high hopes for. A ten-year old Rhone, from a good producer. It was supposed to be a wine for a New Year’s Eve feast that in the end, I didn’t go to. (It turned out there were going to be people there.) So when a friend whom I hadn’t seen in […]
Month: January 2024
Matic Mea Pet Nat, NV Slovenia,
In the glass Medium, lemon, clear. The mousse dissipates quickly, but there are fine, persistent bubbles. It doesn’t look particularly cloudy, like many pet nats do, since they are unfined and unfiltered. That may be bottle variation, which tends to be noticeable in these wines. The nose Possibly a hint of lemon. Or possibly not. It’s […]
Dot Austrian Pepper Grüner Veltliner, Pepper, 2022, Niederösterreich, Austria.
There’s a new wine shop in Cambridge – King Street Cellar – and so your ever-intrepid researcher was obligated to check it out, especially since it has a focus on sustainability. So, one rainy weekend day recently, I trekked all the way down (and later, back up) the one hill in Cambridge. I had a […]
Nozeco, France
In honour(?) of Dry January, and the fact that my semi-regular / occasional tasting companions suggested this, I decided to do a review of a non-alcoholic wine. I ended up with this, a non-alcoholic sparkling wine simply because it was the only non-alcoholic wine that my local Co-op had in stock, and I didn’t feel […]