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Author Archives: Joe Gilmour
On yer bike, son! – In praise of the bicycle.
In the 1980’s, Norman Tebbit advised the unemployed to ‘get on your bike and look for work’. My advice is, forget about work, get on your bike and look for wine.
Touring wine country can take many forms, most often (out of practicality) people opt for a car. Having been to many wine regions in this [...]
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The Reinvention of the Co-op
Driving through Southern French wine country, you learn to recognise the local cave co-op pretty easily. Located on the outskirts of the town, with functional concrete design and a run-down demeanour, you see countless variations all over the region. For the small wine-grower in the early 20th century, it seemed like an ideal way of [...]
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The Grande and the Good
I couldn’t quite put my finger on it but there was something a bit, well naff about an organisation called the Champagne Academy. To me, it sounded a bit hoorah, and when I looked at some of the photo’s from the social evenings I really wasn’t sure that I wanted to be a part of [...]
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A Fine Wine Revolution
Well, finally.
After years, and I mean years, of talking, plans, sketches and delays, the refit of the fine wine area is complete. Those of you who are regulars will know well the wild-west style wine cage that we have had lurking menacingly at the back of our Kensington High Street Shop for the last two [...]
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Some thoughts on Natural Wines
On Tuesday, wine importer Caves des Pyrene, held a tasting in Central London. It was a bit of a chaotic affair, just a bar full of shifty looking French folk, a table and twenty or so wines arranged in tasting order. Like Peter Crouch, my long limbs can come in handy at times and I [...]
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Ancient Greek, Glyndebourne and 2010 Bordeaux
Having missed out on the Ancient Greek GCSE at my local state school and still absolutely unmoved by opera, I was a little non-plussed when a customer insisted I take a look at his programme from 1939.
It was 7:00, I had to key in the latest round of Champagne price increases and well, I was [...]
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The Wines of Pomerol with Neal Martin
Last night, we were thrilled to have long-time friend of Roberson, Neal Martin, guest-hosting a tasting looking at the wines of Pomerol. From the early days of wine-journal.com through his superb work on the Wine Advocate to his forthcoming book on the wines of the region, we have long been fans of his work and [...]
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What…no, it must be for a magnum?
To finish off the near-completion of my cycling trip through Alsace, my friend and I decided push the boat out a bit at dinner in a smart restaurant just south of Bergheim. Having drunk more then enough white wine our thoughts turned to red. But, not being able to face another Alsace Pinot Noir, we [...]
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Henri Bonneau – The Genius of Chateuneauf-du-Pape
As we have just recieved some new wines from the eccentric Henri Bonneau I thought it might be worth sharing some thoughts about this most exciting of producers.
Now 68, Henri Bonneau has been consistantly turning out some of the finest Grenache-based wines the world has ever seen since his first vintage in 1953. Twinkly of [...]
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What to Get the Wine Geek in Your Life