Viognier

#NWTW Week 17: What to eat with Viognier

I’m sat here writing this post from the beautiful hills of Piemonte, where I’ve managed to slope off to for the long weekend.  One slight issue with this is the complete impossibility of getting hold of a bottle of French Viognier out here.  Well never fear, I planned ahead and did all my tasting in …

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#NWTW Week 17: Viognier – One of The Wine World’s New Favourites

Well as much as I say “new favourites”, it has been around a long time, it’s just that it’s always been such a pain for growers to get it right that other grapes were always a bit more commercially viable for those making it, and those drinking it.  Luckily for all concerned that’s beginning to …

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#NWTW Week 17: Sunning Grapes in the South of France

As a British kid growing up in the 1980s, I’m fairly familiar with the South of France.  I’ve got all these memories of family holidays down at campsites on the coast.  Most of these memories revolve around my poor dad having to drive us from Liverpool to Perpignan via the Dover to Calais crossing.  Three …

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