We are about to enter the silly season where the couriers’ vans that normally deliver our boxes of wine are filled with Christmas presents and everything takes much longer than usual to reach you. We have been given cut-off times for each delivery region. These are the latest dates the […]
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A visit with Jean Marc Dreyer in Alsace
We first met Jean Marc Dreyer from the village of Rosheim in Alsace a number of years ago at a winter salon in the tiny village of Glaine-Montaigut in the hills to the east of the Auvergne city of Clermont-Ferrand. It is a small salon, but we always meet interesting […]
A brief history of the term “natural wine”
Sue Dyson and Roger McShane We love the term ‘Natural Wine’. Let us explain why. We have always been educators and communicators and always will be. That is why we love writing these long newsletters to explain our wines and what they mean to us. And that is why the […]
Aromas and flavours in wine: Part 2
In the first part of this article published in Wine Talk for April 2017 we discussed the importance of the human aroma receptors, volatile compounds associated with wine, the link between aroma receptors and the brain, how aroma is a construct of the brain and how different people smell totally […]
Aromas and flavours in wine: Part 1
© Sue Dyson and Roger McShane Published: Living Wines Wine Talk Newsletter, April 2017 It is almost an habitual reaction. When someone hands you a glass of wine it is inevitable that the first thing you will do is swirl the wine in the glass and take a sniff. The […]
It all starts with the soil – Part 4
Sue Dyson and Roger McShane. First published in Wine Talk, February 2018. In the three previous articles under this title we examined the different rock types that are found in vineyards and then looked at how soils are created from those rocks by actions including physical weathering, chemical weathering and […]
It all starts with the soil – Part 3
Sue Dyson and Roger McShane. First published in Wine Talk, January 2018. In the two previous articles under this title we examined the different rock types that are found in vineyards and then looked at how soils are created from those rocks by actions including physical weathering, chemical weathering and […]
It all starts with the soil – Part 2
Sue Dyson and Roger McShane. First published in Wine Talk, November 2017. Rocks into soil In the first part of this series of articles in the last newsletter we discussed the three types of rocks which cover the Earth but we did not discuss how these are turned into soil. […]
It all starts with the soil – Part 1
Sue Dyson and Roger McShane. First published in Wine Talk, October 2017. Without the right soil, grapes don’t develop deep flavour. But what is the right soil? Good soil is not necessarily rich soil. It can be quite sparse soil provided is supports a healthy level of bacteria and fungi. […]
The Auvergne region
We only have one producer in this beautiful region, namely Mito Inoue. She produces interesting wine in tiny quantities and interesting cider as well. You can read more about her by clicking on the link below: Mito Inoue: Unicorn wines from the spectacular Auvergne