I don’t think I’ve had a wine I didn’t like from Domaine des Lampyres yet. So you’ll see me working my way through their wines on the blog. And this one is a skin-contact (aka orange) wine. So I’m doubly looking forward to it. In the glass It looks like an honest-to-goodness orange wine. […]
Category: review
Ancre Hill Estates, Pet Nat Red, 2022, Wales
I’ve been waiting to review this wine. I’m a fan of most pet nats I’ve tried. And from Wales? How could you not want to give this one a go. So this has been sitting around for rather longer than you might expect. But that’s because I knew TY also wanted to try it, and […]
Sous Le Bouchon, Artisans Partisans, 2022, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
Can’t say I remember how I picked this wine to sample, even though I ordered it only a week or so ago. I was presumably just browsing the Cambridge Wine Merchants website, and came across it. Not the most exciting backstory, but there you go. It is a low-intervention wine, which piqued my interest. Plus, […]
GWC Flowers, Agiorgitiko, 2019. Nemea, Greece.
Recently, the Countryside Faction, as they are known, took a holiday to Greece. When I saw them after they had returned, they gave me this bottle. Also, some Greek cheese, which I had with the wine when tasting it. So I went into this having no idea what to expect. In the glass ‘Red wine.’ […]
Yo El Rey, Grenache Gris, 2020, South Cape Coast, South Africa.
Thanks to my Responsible Adult (aka Alisa) for this recommendation. I had asked her to recommend some South African wines, being that she is both a wine buff and South African. This was top of her list. I’m glad it was. In the glass A stunning colour. Completely unexpected. (I hadn’t read much on the […]