The Wine Talk newsletter from Living Wines has been published regularly since 2008 when we first started importing natural wines from France.
In this newsletter we provide readers with the opportunity to purchase packs of our wonderful wines – you can, of course, buy wines at any time by approaching one of the many wine shops or wine bars that sell our wine, or buy them directly from us provided you want to purchase either 6 or 12 bottles.
The newsletter also includes articles and stories on a range of issues as well as information about wines that are about to arrive or have just arrived, in Australia. The articles also cover a wide range of issues relating to natural wines including how they are made, what natural wines are, how things are changing as a result of climate change, why we strongly prefer wines that have not been sprayed or the vines grown with chemical fertilisers, information about French appellations and much, much more.
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Wine Talk Complete List
The Living Wines Wine Talk newsletters (and previous Terroir Wines newsletters) that have been published are listed below and can be downloaded by clicking on the links.
- What are natural wines? This article explains why we started importing natural wines and we stand by everything we said in 2011;
- French wine labels explained – Gahier Trousseau;
- Grape variety of the month – Pinot Beurot;
- Wine appellation – Buzet in South West France.
- Grape variety of the month: Altesse in the Savoie;
- Cote de Brouilly wine appellation;
- A discussion of the arrival of the second shipment from Belluard and a nice photo of a Gringet vine in the Le Feu vineyard showing how the leaves are almost circular;
- And this was the first newsletter issued under the Living Wines banner – all the 19 earlier newsletters were issued as Terroir Wines.
Each of the newsletters from here down were issued under our previous name of Terroir Wines.
- Grape variety of the month: Trousseau;
- Muscadet Coteaux de Loire wine appellation.
- A story about food pairings with white wines;
- A note about Chardonnay;
- Grape variety of the month: Gringet from the Savoie.
- Grape variety of the month: Côt (called Malbec in Australia);
- A story about the Saint Aubin wine appellation in Burgundy.
- A story about the Arbois wine appellation in the Jura region;
- A story about the grape variety of the month: Fer Servadou;
- Wine labels explained: Bornard Les Chassagnes.
- A story about the arrival of Bornard Jura wines and Carmarans Aveyron wines in Australia;
- A story about the Les Baux de Provence wine appellation after a visit we made to new producer the Milan family;
- An important (and lengthy) story called “The allure of oxidative wines”.
- A visit to Axel Prüfer in the Languedoc who we had just started importing wine from;
- More information about the opening of Garagistes in Hobart;
- A story about the Marcillac wine appellation in southern France;
- A story about the grape variety of the month: Melon de Bourgogne;
- French Wine Labels Explained: La Soeur Cadette Vin de France Melon.
- We announced the opening of what became a hugely significant restaurant in Hobart called Garagistes which not only was the first restaurant in Australia to have only natural wines on the wine list, but also worked closely with producers to encourage organic production of vegetables and fruits.
- The grape variety of the month was Aligoté, a common grape variety in Burgundy.
- A story about an unexpected restaurant visit in Beaujolais which saw us being carried away by an extraordinary range of natural wines available.
- We point to an article by famous winemaker Randall Grahm of Bonny Doone in California who rails against many of the so-called modern practices in vineyards and calles for a return to terroir. The link is in the newsletter.
- The grape variety of the month is Loire Valley variety Grolleau Gris.
- The grape variety of the month was Chenin Blanc.
- Long story about the meaning of natural wines and why we import them called The Natural Wine Movement;
- An article on the Pinot Noir grape variety.
- This month our grape story is about Sauvignon Blanc because at that time we imported wines from a supplier in Sancerre. More recently (2023/4) one of our current suppliers (Domaine de la Garreliere) in the Loire valley is producing a beautiful wine from this grape called Cendrillon.
- This month we explained the Cabernet Franc grape variety which thrives in the Bourgueil region in the Loire Valley;
- The label of a wine from Bourgueil is also explained.
- A story about the Negrette grape variety that is grown by our producer in the Fiefs Vendéens appellation in the Western Loire region;
- A detailed description of a wine label from the Fiefs Vendéens appellation.
- We have a story about the 2009 Tour de france which climbed the Mont Ventoux which is very close to the house we bought in the Ventoux region;
- We have written a story about the Mourvedre grape variety;
- And yet another article explaining French wine labels.
- Last month we wrote a review of a visit to Terroir in New York, this month we visit Terroir in London!
- Our grape variety this month is Gamay which is very popular in Beaujolais and elsewhere.
- We include another story about appellations in France.
- In this newletter we included a story about the Terroir Wine Bar in New York which we had recently visited;
- We included an article about the Clairette grape variety;
- We also included an article giving a high level understanding of French wine labels.
- For those of you who like the Gamay gape variety there is an article about the Beaujolais region entitled “We don’t have any Beaujolais”.
- There is an article about the grape of the month, Carignan which is popular in the Languedoc region.
- There is a short description of the Roussanne grape variety in this newsletter.
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