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Winter 2023-2024 Natural Wine Salons
A handy calendar of international natural wine salons for December 2023 and January and February 2024. Plus: a tasting report the ERUPTED wine fest in…
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Aaron Ayscough
My 2022 Vintage
My second vintage of wines from the Languedoc (and first from the Loiret! and first from the Beaujolais!) is finally entirely in bottle. The experience…
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Aaron Ayscough
Tasting: ERUPTED in Levice, Slovakia
A look back at the first edition of ERUPTED in Slovakia's Nitra region, one of the more off-the-beaten path wine salons I've attended in recent years.
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Aaron Ayscough
November 2023
A Fog Over the Southern Jura
Domaine Ganevat is a seized asset in a money laundering investigation. What does that mean? Plus: interviews with south Jura rising stars Alexandre…
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Aaron Ayscough
Paul Lewakowski: A Moment For Us is Three Years
A chat with ambitious, highly experienced Michigan-born Jura vigneron Paul Lewakowski, as he finally prepares to release his 2020 wines, his first…
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Aaron Ayscough
Alexandre Plassat: The Comfort of the Very Long Press
And macerated savagnin and whole-cluster poulsard. A chat with Lot-et-Garonne-born vigneron Alexandre Plassat, on breaking the unwritten rules of Jura…
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Aaron Ayscough
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October 2023
Contemporary Paris Natural Wine
Natural wine is alive and well and living in Series II of the NOT DRINKING POISON podcast. Interviews with the daring restaurateurs behind Chambre…
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Aaron Ayscough
Ep. 9: Louis Mesana of Café Montezuma
A chat with the multi-talented Louis Mesana, co-founder of Bourse-adjacent natural wine nightspot Café Montezuma and author of the graphic novel La…
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Aaron Ayscough
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Ep. 8: Jessica Yang & Robert Compagnon of Folderol & Le Rigmarole
Talking natural wine and small-batch ice cream with expat chef-restaurateurs Jessica Yang and Robert Compagnon of wine-and-ice-cream bar Folderol and…
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Aaron Ayscough
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Ep. 7: Oliver Lomeli of Chambre Noire
A chat with Oliver Lomeli, the Mexican expat mastermind behind Paris' most dynamic series of radical natural wine bars, Chambre Noire.
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Aaron Ayscough
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A Threat from Sébastien Riffault
On Sept. 30th, the Sancerre vigneron demanded I take down my June article on his defamation lawsuit - or, he said, he'd send Ukrainian war refugees to…
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Paris Natural Wine Lifers: Part II
From the 1980s to the 2000s. Part II of Series I of the NOT DRINKING POISON podcast.
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