I like vinho verde, so when it was suggested I try this one, I had no reason to say No, and a lot to look forward to. And then I read up on it. Apparently the people behind Noble Rot are also behind Chin Chin. I knew of Noble Rot as a magazine on wine, […]
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Delas Crozes-Hermitage Domaine Des Grands Chemins 2014, Rhone, France
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 […]
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 […]
Kleine Zalze Shiraz, Grenache, Viognier, 2021. Western Cape, South Africa
I was in Co-op again, and came across this one. It was a fairly easy choice to try for two reasons beyond the price. One was it is from Kleine Zalze, a storied estate in South Africa. I wasn’t aware they did wine at this price point. This is presumably done just for the Co-op, […]