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, […]
Category: white wine
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 […]
Mtsvane, 2022, Marks & Spencer Found Range, Georgia
M&S has a ‘Found’ range of wines that lets you ‘experience exciting and undiscovered tastes,’ and draws on lesser known grapes. All the other ones in the range that were on display when I was in my local M&S the other day were familiar to me. This one I couldn’t recall, and couldn’t remember ever […]
The Undercliff, Lyme Regis, 2021. The Seriously Good Wine Company, Devon, England.
When the Countryside Faction returned from getting married, they brought me a bottle of this, as a Thank You for looking after their house and animals. They had spent a mini-honeymoon in Lyme Regis; it wasn’t a completely random bottle of wine. For those of you who are wondering why they are called the Countryside […]
Benedict Slovenian White, Dveri Pax 2021, Slovenia
Although I have been to Slovenia several times, I have never (as far as I can recall) tried their wines. And definitely not while in Slovenia. That, admittedly, may have something to do with the rather brief nature of my visits there. When my partner-in-wine, Julia, and I were conducting fieldwork in Austria, one […]