This week I headed down to Thames for a wine dinner that UK wine agents, Hatch Mansfield, were putting on. Gordon Russell was over from the Esk Valley vineyards in Hawkes Bay in New Zealand. I don’t get lucky enough to drink much wine from there that often, so it was a real treat for …
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A friend of mine in Italy is a young winemaker called Ale. He’s 20 (or is it 21?) so is still very much a newbie in the world of winemaking, but has been churning out some of the best Barbera (Piemontese red wine grape) I’ve tried for a long time. But, being a young man, …
or The Wine Making Process I remember the first time I went out to a vineyard. It looked out over the Aosta Valley in northern Italy, a full on panoramic view. It was just awesome. First thought I had was how great it’d be to work here! At the time I was just finishing an …
