Tasting
Wine Words: Vintage – Decoding wine speak and tasting notes
If we talk about vintage fashion, vintage cars or even vintage watches, people have a pretty clear i...
Wine Words: Brett – Decoding Wine Speak And Tasting Notes
Brett is an abbreviation of Brettanomyces and a word that has been increasingly creeping into tastin...
Wine Words: Energy – Decoding Wine Speak And Tasting Notes
At a recent Wanderthirst event – don’t know? Ask us! – in Singapore one of my table mates asked me t...
Champagne Billecart-Salmon’s Garden Vineyard – A Very Special Vertical Of Clos St. Hilaire
About 1805h I disembarked my flight in Changi airport. Come 1930, I was finding my place at the Summ...
Wine Words: Minerality – Decoding Wine Speak And Tasting Notes
This is a controversial one. Minerality is a term steeped in more self-regarding, pretentious pseudo...
Wine Words: Intensity vs Concentration – Decoding Wine Speak And Tasting Notes
Decoding wine speak and tasting notes
OK, so maybe not the most obvious choice for kicking off wi...
Missing the point with scores
There seems to be no argument that not all wines are created equal, so how come the increasing deman...
Tim Atkin’s ‘The Best of South Africa’ – a quick summary of this emerging (?) wine land.
A couple of weeks ago, I attended a terrific tasting of ’The Best of South Africa’, organised by jou...
Tasting Note Tips
Putting pen to paper at a wine tasting can be a source of anxiety akin to hanging a target on your b...