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DROPLETS: The Week in Natural Wine
Vital natural wine counter-propaganda. This week: Is natural wine fascist? The impending claret catastrophe. The problem(s) with natural wine apps…
Jul 19
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Aaron Ayscough
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Whither Cahors?
We’re awash in wine geek tears when the Jura frosts. But spare a thought for Cahors, which frosts just as often, without the same demand. Plus: Simon…
Jul 10
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Simon Busser Hangs Up the Plow
An interview with the seminal Cahors vigneron and former horse-plowing enthusiast, who lost much of his 2024 vintage to April frost.
Jul 10
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Aaron Ayscough
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The View from the Hill: L'Ostal Levant
A decade in the making, Louis and Charlotte Pérot's innovative approach to Cahors natural winemaking is lately coming to fruition.
Jul 10
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Aaron Ayscough
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Danis Bessières: Back to the Retrofuture
Meet the Cahors natural wine scion making the most of a heritage of Nature et Progrès organic viticulture, oxygenative winemaking - and (some) machine…
Jul 10
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DROPLETS: The Week in Natural Wine
Vital natural wine counter-propaganda. This week: Pierre Jancou departs the restaurant biz. Regenerative word games. A teinturier reality check. How bad…
Jul 1
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Aaron Ayscough
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June 2024
Wine Without Winters
What's contributing to frost is also contributing to mouse. Plus: a trio of new reports from the Czech Republic: Aleš Kovář, Alma, & Hokus Pokus Wine…
Jun 20
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Aaron Ayscough
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20 Years of Le Temps des Cérises
On June 8th, Axel Prüfer and Ute Zwanzig celebrated two decades of innovative Haut Languedoc natural winemaking with a fabulous block party outside…
Jun 20
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Aaron Ayscough
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On Znojmo Time: Aleš Kovář
A lifelong friend of neighboring virtuoso Martin Vajčner, part-time vigneron Aleš Kovář has finally bottled his 2021s, his first unsulfited vintage. It…
Jun 20
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Aaron Ayscough
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Dining on the Wine Trail: Alma, Prague
At this ambitious café-restaurant-cocktail bar in Nové Město, chefs Petr Židek and Michal Danek reveal an eye-opening range and sophistication in modern…
Jun 20
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Aaron Ayscough
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Tasting: Hokus Pokus Wine Fest, Ostrava
Impressions of the first-ever natural wine salon in the northwest Moravian city of Ostrava, organized on March 2nd by Czech Republic natural wine…
Jun 20
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Tasting: Hokus Pokus Wine Fest, Ostrava
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DROPLETS: The Week in Natural Wine
Vital natural wine counter-propaganda. This week: EU parliamentary elections. B Corp greenwashing. The problem with "non-alcoholic wine." The 3rd best…
Jun 10
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