Category: Sub-interest wine

It has been a mixed day for wine. Oxidised Sorg and Weinbach (bloody Inedit 2000 of all things, I was vexed) started things off. This was followed by winemaker …

I have a lot of happy memories of Huet Premier Trie wines from the late eighties and early nineties, this just doesn’t seem to live up to those memories. …

I got this to celebrate the partner’s return to London after two weeks away. He says, “If this is what you opened you cannot be too ecstatic to see …

We are trying these wines blind and then coming back to drink them (if they are fit to be drank, that is). These notes are written as we try …

Earlier tonight we ate reasonably well and had some truly mind-bendingly good wines. This is what life is all about. One wine, however, disappointed. Shame, Olivier Humbrecht, shame! Brut …

As well as this wine we had a Groffier Amoureuses 1999 on our trip which was similarly crap. I expect far more from these vineyards from a producer who …

My mother and step-father had this in their wine cupboard, I insisted we try it. Perhaps that was my first mistake. Coteaux du Layon Beaulieu 1974, Les Caves de …