tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15389594563689705962024-03-19T01:46:42.072-07:00SlotovinoA Plea for Diversity in Wine.Robert Slotoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06629284363151248386noreply@blogger.comBlogger585125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538959456368970596.post-68306450044030255582024-03-13T10:30:00.000-07:002024-03-13T10:30:34.640-07:00Penedes Tasting<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlP9er7da1ZUh1BYRGJhNXejjONuSLo_zWTFWiq2Yy2wdtrHtGcWH-z1S4xAtxylLFQWMbm66uUZv4_tvPvWfp_slVPp3DlDGxy7GJ5HlcJEKxQPS3zVlZEPNnujqZe3iPorC2XMkKX_RbWRIeoFk2IpWjkpbOZfqWLZ_9GamOZgbbl61F8UVj-trdxVhZ/s1920/Penedes%20tasting%20room.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlP9er7da1ZUh1BYRGJhNXejjONuSLo_zWTFWiq2Yy2wdtrHtGcWH-z1S4xAtxylLFQWMbm66uUZv4_tvPvWfp_slVPp3DlDGxy7GJ5HlcJEKxQPS3zVlZEPNnujqZe3iPorC2XMkKX_RbWRIeoFk2IpWjkpbOZfqWLZ_9GamOZgbbl61F8UVj-trdxVhZ/w400-h300/Penedes%20tasting%20room.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>The fewer the tasters the better, you could say. No standing behind huge blokes like up against a pub bar. We hope the organisers achieved their goals because Penedes is a fantastic appellation and they deserve every success.</p><p>There were any number of Xarel-lo wines on show - all good. This together with its pink mutation Xarel-lo Vermell are wonderfully reliable and sometimes really terrific. It has been said that Xarel-lo might be related to Macabeo but Slotovino considers Xarel-lo to be superior.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXmFz_u9VL_I1WBkE6JG_vsMRAa1zSv9cGDUxKQZZYPP4Bnc0pt-ARuhuTAZDQFousdGq9f_bUAXDuMd_xvwsR4ZyIQar9GlaoMlUahGH7AsiUyK0ZP8M5uc5beE1bSlA5msSx9eF6gBxPEDjBwF5rXLP5e5TvB-oMMs1oK87T6mJ1OUigVY7iKZfqvQKL/s1920/Torres%20sign.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXmFz_u9VL_I1WBkE6JG_vsMRAa1zSv9cGDUxKQZZYPP4Bnc0pt-ARuhuTAZDQFousdGq9f_bUAXDuMd_xvwsR4ZyIQar9GlaoMlUahGH7AsiUyK0ZP8M5uc5beE1bSlA5msSx9eF6gBxPEDjBwF5rXLP5e5TvB-oMMs1oK87T6mJ1OUigVY7iKZfqvQKL/w300-h400/Torres%20sign.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p>Sumarroca, Gramona, Loxarel and other luminaries were there but for our purposes it was Torres who held the greatest attraction since they had brought some of their 'Varietats Recuperadas' from their 'Projecte de recuperacio de varietals autoctons ancestrals.'</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjAHxcZko8SrQLm1UJw8PiW_H8mCR8D0sijS31n6FQexmfM8rKS1SZHQ8Ijn7wgcBkPfVHuuO0EHnr4JoQywv2qyAuGpTw_ek3Nmg9E2DL_Qtn_BwEmiwQFUyyW3C4M0Tje-qeE73rvz85VWHSjK_xuWyQ5hdfXIs2n8LdYY2pILfukP4DcmQi2U6Flm0b/s1920/Forcadaf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjAHxcZko8SrQLm1UJw8PiW_H8mCR8D0sijS31n6FQexmfM8rKS1SZHQ8Ijn7wgcBkPfVHuuO0EHnr4JoQywv2qyAuGpTw_ek3Nmg9E2DL_Qtn_BwEmiwQFUyyW3C4M0Tje-qeE73rvz85VWHSjK_xuWyQ5hdfXIs2n8LdYY2pILfukP4DcmQi2U6Flm0b/w300-h400/Forcadaf.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Forcada 100%?</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp1Q2rDk4klIO-uBEiYhpXD1x_DHvtRmLta274wxuHmsjZXiCGmJOKOLVKZcMQcScgDuW_M_84Ot09114fO9kng82Kce7Q5MeyGgZm1QwbE3BTkRwJ_eWJbVoRZCW7Jpmi-C2pE9eVFDH8WzJ8O3-C9ZmocaI52kZw1AAhAyP0cbITOeLaAAHjBDg3VQUo/s1920/Forcadab.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp1Q2rDk4klIO-uBEiYhpXD1x_DHvtRmLta274wxuHmsjZXiCGmJOKOLVKZcMQcScgDuW_M_84Ot09114fO9kng82Kce7Q5MeyGgZm1QwbE3BTkRwJ_eWJbVoRZCW7Jpmi-C2pE9eVFDH8WzJ8O3-C9ZmocaI52kZw1AAhAyP0cbITOeLaAAHjBDg3VQUo/w300-h400/Forcadab.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p>the first was Forcada 2019</p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiy6-cEIATieDhcaWGoFaBPPO3i9CnnwQoHW586fmSn4wlzCo96quxuYQI5rSt7_7TP-zA0APhu-mnLrtlPRKRB07WuqaHH5X_mD8_NqCuHW4ycY0vovmnpQ-K6OAwl9Ek2Two5y-yECtWgIIVp_CaBGhzwRYCOOd_6OXgO8egYpS-6Jq_QIp9g0AVJCg4/s1920/Focadaf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiy6-cEIATieDhcaWGoFaBPPO3i9CnnwQoHW586fmSn4wlzCo96quxuYQI5rSt7_7TP-zA0APhu-mnLrtlPRKRB07WuqaHH5X_mD8_NqCuHW4ycY0vovmnpQ-K6OAwl9Ek2Two5y-yECtWgIIVp_CaBGhzwRYCOOd_6OXgO8egYpS-6Jq_QIp9g0AVJCg4/w300-h400/Focadaf.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Forcada with Xarel-lo</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLYfvvUXHZ_AFjb9mSsSQdL5DroYVf3vqYgFhcup83p1v0rLXEq8c2MJMx0_9nZmTN0zDZ3NME_yCHZK67rAakh4HmdIT7arNdWOPXeIQB1OvPn97DkHMKCMtCTNiNm20ZWmTHWAkbQ57Mx1emI99GyrULjUfz1j9P8HEtHz64ncfyagPL61pK-Qm4XPhA/s1920/Focadab.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLYfvvUXHZ_AFjb9mSsSQdL5DroYVf3vqYgFhcup83p1v0rLXEq8c2MJMx0_9nZmTN0zDZ3NME_yCHZK67rAakh4HmdIT7arNdWOPXeIQB1OvPn97DkHMKCMtCTNiNm20ZWmTHWAkbQ57Mx1emI99GyrULjUfz1j9P8HEtHz64ncfyagPL61pK-Qm4XPhA/w300-h400/Focadab.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>Then Forcada 2022. On the back label is written <i>'More than forty years ago, Familia Torres embarked on a project to recover ancestral varieties in an act of archaeology that aims to restore a shared heritage, and among its fruit is Cos Ancestral . Forcada is the first recovered white pre-phylloxera variety to be vinified and combined with Xarel-lo, it endows the wine with an incomparable authenticity.'</i></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBHbmXN6c9MQfQUSC96viVe3IghyphenhypheniK_s_tf0qSTzd6iYZUAPhPZohp3w66gcQTipTDSC0k7m5ofrWdWpC2ej54mxshUCHj2hyjMZyPvp2wd69TGA0PVQNWz7rrVNhGwkJ2XvIWEWOA4mTXYMA4z91qVx-QgPQMNMiV6jZAOdKJZizbWs2RKfOYrlF7iZko/s1920/Moneuf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBHbmXN6c9MQfQUSC96viVe3IghyphenhypheniK_s_tf0qSTzd6iYZUAPhPZohp3w66gcQTipTDSC0k7m5ofrWdWpC2ej54mxshUCHj2hyjMZyPvp2wd69TGA0PVQNWz7rrVNhGwkJ2XvIWEWOA4mTXYMA4z91qVx-QgPQMNMiV6jZAOdKJZizbWs2RKfOYrlF7iZko/w300-h400/Moneuf.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZLvP5NUcyRu0_-lVVxnhOv-c9uYBS5H8mbLuFMFJMMHgdRp0f0wXw7nKZDLgRkyJ391V1gaR7ilAxrz6JKytSGeqgeIOjhdceDcMyiN0YY51RZuC82lYJaWhJD08z97OnEcwaolCKaC-7S46DOlUXUaujR7OMKj1dzmTwnHY7KcM5d4xyaqfve2q4DU7w/s1920/Moneub.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZLvP5NUcyRu0_-lVVxnhOv-c9uYBS5H8mbLuFMFJMMHgdRp0f0wXw7nKZDLgRkyJ391V1gaR7ilAxrz6JKytSGeqgeIOjhdceDcMyiN0YY51RZuC82lYJaWhJD08z97OnEcwaolCKaC-7S46DOlUXUaujR7OMKj1dzmTwnHY7KcM5d4xyaqfve2q4DU7w/w300-h400/Moneub.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>and Moneu, a red, albeit in a blend with Tempranillo and Garnacha Tinta,</p><p>On the back label is written <i>'Castell de la Bleda, in the heart of the Penedes, our homeland, has been a winegrowing area for over 2000 years. There we have found Iberian and Roman vestiges, from the Middle Ages and from the time just before phylloxera when ancestral varieties like Moneu thrived in the vineyards. It took us years of research to recover this variety, which is why we are thrilled to include it in the blend for Clos Ancestral...'</i></p><p>We had hear about the Torres programme to revive almost extinct varieties and had always wanted to taste some of the wine made with them. They have counted more than 50 such varieties. After Forcada and Moneu there is Garró, Querol and Pirene.This was a great opportunity to get an idea of the programme not least because bottles of these wines are made in very small quantities so far and are very expensive. </p><p>From tasting we half understood why Forcada and Moneu have been placed in blends. The 2019 Forcada (which we presume is <i>in purezza) </i>was not very approachable.</p><p>It is early days and if anyone can find the best way to present these rescue varieties, Torres will.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN1X9jYcgpS0d9bi-_QaE0NJdGBcTWIhufwOOv659zptSbdazg2dTmDkYPcgBSucZsZvgTT14dHMqOWGtihSf5Aaa966eOTq6gTptE4QvV4PUyzWDoXROUOWL1i9PFAVqD5GI0_5aoXzhrAiWkF2xD-6ghR7EvMMK9p4cuQUFvYFhHRCzptyGx4kQnTnv-/s1920/Torres%20ladies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN1X9jYcgpS0d9bi-_QaE0NJdGBcTWIhufwOOv659zptSbdazg2dTmDkYPcgBSucZsZvgTT14dHMqOWGtihSf5Aaa966eOTq6gTptE4QvV4PUyzWDoXROUOWL1i9PFAVqD5GI0_5aoXzhrAiWkF2xD-6ghR7EvMMK9p4cuQUFvYFhHRCzptyGx4kQnTnv-/w150-h200/Torres%20ladies.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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Check past visits to Paris posted on this blog to see the bridge in different seasons and practically submerged in a flooded Seine in one case.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEichmo2Mu1P_CufBqYh0bgxGVxfDnGbjlQjYwTDAyQc4B7BIrrFI8yRmnbhN1m8OL73FUAS7rIm4JeA87s6laa1A5-EjIS-CASpBEZvNqnwUBWIn1EzPxX3ICUY4dXXCLokFhOtZP8oDSydJLKNaYNSpKlA5FXiCD3t7U9m7hNsRGMaHvZqSqMoM34g-Mvs/s1920/Frey%20PNf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEichmo2Mu1P_CufBqYh0bgxGVxfDnGbjlQjYwTDAyQc4B7BIrrFI8yRmnbhN1m8OL73FUAS7rIm4JeA87s6laa1A5-EjIS-CASpBEZvNqnwUBWIn1EzPxX3ICUY4dXXCLokFhOtZP8oDSydJLKNaYNSpKlA5FXiCD3t7U9m7hNsRGMaHvZqSqMoM34g-Mvs/w300-h400/Frey%20PNf.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy1H2YVKMjgCpxemXn8dmuQDGEgcecLBZLqhZzf5y3gk7dJnZXBEo-0O8a44EPfD3f75a9vLWKO4YNtlsHpL9VMxQkBdMhsBfq-tx3C_DacSaWBG6mW9Kr5xrMfrpkpvx2GmCmOJgxllTNnPDg0XYrQbZL_JPPBKoq9MgA1HtR8jnEfFzf1GzHLy423_N6/s1920/Frey%20PNb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy1H2YVKMjgCpxemXn8dmuQDGEgcecLBZLqhZzf5y3gk7dJnZXBEo-0O8a44EPfD3f75a9vLWKO4YNtlsHpL9VMxQkBdMhsBfq-tx3C_DacSaWBG6mW9Kr5xrMfrpkpvx2GmCmOJgxllTNnPDg0XYrQbZL_JPPBKoq9MgA1HtR8jnEfFzf1GzHLy423_N6/w300-h400/Frey%20PNb.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p>Here we bought a nice looking (not too alcoholic) Alsace Pinot Noir. This is an ongoing quest for the quintessential Alsace Pinot Noir. For us it shouldn't be more than 12.5% if the essence of Alsace Pinot Noir is to come through. We most certainly don't want an APN that tries to rival a Burgundy. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZszQkm7Bxq5IQUofMr3TISqXw1jsk762rVmyLFignfMmYpkFzp5THvpVdYDZXys4_0Yx60wLQkCzDx6dZHE_HZhFLXs5XGbYXTJKVk4QEILg8cNashCa5xBjJcW5NsQKuYawxLr08l49Pqont62VEd8YKW_LV0yXvtfsRZeSLf2mq3yqx4sCrf2yqscWN/s1920/Forgues%20Ploussardf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZszQkm7Bxq5IQUofMr3TISqXw1jsk762rVmyLFignfMmYpkFzp5THvpVdYDZXys4_0Yx60wLQkCzDx6dZHE_HZhFLXs5XGbYXTJKVk4QEILg8cNashCa5xBjJcW5NsQKuYawxLr08l49Pqont62VEd8YKW_LV0yXvtfsRZeSLf2mq3yqx4sCrf2yqscWN/w300-h400/Forgues%20Ploussardf.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSbkoWPcKTewFD9gG1xXi-DNNkYu69KuKnwOyvo9vD9Lb1wS2465svgunufK6y-KwYl5SE1urAecM8uBSikj9_n7rzUuWJ0QsKpLRD8puC-sSyWj9utKMer0fOPcX3nAUI5PIEYRGAjUbBggZlsZDgQ2rZJXfk-LFAh26OikZgz_EdexiobL9ES7pAcydj/s1920/Forgues%20Ploussardb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSbkoWPcKTewFD9gG1xXi-DNNkYu69KuKnwOyvo9vD9Lb1wS2465svgunufK6y-KwYl5SE1urAecM8uBSikj9_n7rzUuWJ0QsKpLRD8puC-sSyWj9utKMer0fOPcX3nAUI5PIEYRGAjUbBggZlsZDgQ2rZJXfk-LFAh26OikZgz_EdexiobL9ES7pAcydj/w300-h400/Forgues%20Ploussardb.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div>The same goes for Poulsard. Again our quest is for something low in alcohol and unmistakably Poulsardien. This one looks promising at 11.8%</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA4ikTW2RorNI_t11i-sQkmbVLclq-2xZ-FkJsN_0qdlpF1-mI2tLjsc7QQ1JtkG0lLoRkdAhOdk1T2GPEjordTfemGoSMQfMu8JCSKZf22WuduUDGXjMwKcBXviwNiejGyVgHzWIdXrvqRu6WOKGC1ZsNvQxBwqn2i1LJL9ihyHzbgeppZSc_ZWvCkuSH/s800/Bossetti.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="800" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA4ikTW2RorNI_t11i-sQkmbVLclq-2xZ-FkJsN_0qdlpF1-mI2tLjsc7QQ1JtkG0lLoRkdAhOdk1T2GPEjordTfemGoSMQfMu8JCSKZf22WuduUDGXjMwKcBXviwNiejGyVgHzWIdXrvqRu6WOKGC1ZsNvQxBwqn2i1LJL9ihyHzbgeppZSc_ZWvCkuSH/w400-h226/Bossetti.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Caves Bossetti in the Rue des Archives is also a good address. We were directed here by Winesearcher on another quest altogether. The great Chambers St. Wines of New York wrote about a Pinot Meunier Champagne by Dehours who rank as the specialists in this grape.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLqXeT2WoXBImLMGopGg9of-jH7w4tbnOssqvcXUglGpn8QlAO0WsBLugAZvSsK7W8iNEMeu1cbqmejcfYPfK5VYdDPFdkh2IVZaAvjtrZrTyDM5gdGFg2IBBM5NZqN8O6g7JvM_YCL_e0wO1oqQBXe2Ys6iv31MrfYTj0Qd4u3MqnPOXITinlY3_WGydy/s1920/Meunierf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLqXeT2WoXBImLMGopGg9of-jH7w4tbnOssqvcXUglGpn8QlAO0WsBLugAZvSsK7W8iNEMeu1cbqmejcfYPfK5VYdDPFdkh2IVZaAvjtrZrTyDM5gdGFg2IBBM5NZqN8O6g7JvM_YCL_e0wO1oqQBXe2Ys6iv31MrfYTj0Qd4u3MqnPOXITinlY3_WGydy/w300-h400/Meunierf.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWKVFt4syc2oY6cWkrVEUuRo-3gAKTvX_sxstnieEaArCQPrbpGwqOYm4tlLBXY3W5A_poLf7xS4rt9NJdCCnBM2rF2LETeud-Xfl9yspFUu5S8wPyH3AFNJoxI3usxhPtM6SYU8rJaZOMyBBzKEQboluGnP-i175mdSBLzoQyKLcIFRkAs5bCVJX3Dh9P/s1920/Meunierb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWKVFt4syc2oY6cWkrVEUuRo-3gAKTvX_sxstnieEaArCQPrbpGwqOYm4tlLBXY3W5A_poLf7xS4rt9NJdCCnBM2rF2LETeud-Xfl9yspFUu5S8wPyH3AFNJoxI3usxhPtM6SYU8rJaZOMyBBzKEQboluGnP-i175mdSBLzoQyKLcIFRkAs5bCVJX3Dh9P/w300-h400/Meunierb.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>We are great fans of Pinot Meunier. Whenever we have found it <i>in purezza</i> it has always pleased. The Germans are the most active practitioners with a category all of their own called 'Samtrot.' The translation is silk-red and that seems appropriate.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhARFBw426hlgEVkzYuyv6BKDI5OCGGUW-iTYIWvhxRGl2cjsANvLEFR5UxemUsoT7ujF2nXbABR9YvP0UHuZm55XvuFNvgisb_jxAWq2L-yykTv91FBah80_9K19c8LKHpWQSBUjlijRRHQ1XDtaEO1z_n9aYfkjix8go8VHQrEKV7ZyrP21X7zJAls8pn/s1920/Saveurs%20sign.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhARFBw426hlgEVkzYuyv6BKDI5OCGGUW-iTYIWvhxRGl2cjsANvLEFR5UxemUsoT7ujF2nXbABR9YvP0UHuZm55XvuFNvgisb_jxAWq2L-yykTv91FBah80_9K19c8LKHpWQSBUjlijRRHQ1XDtaEO1z_n9aYfkjix8go8VHQrEKV7ZyrP21X7zJAls8pn/w300-h400/Saveurs%20sign.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Further researches into Poulsard cam up with an address in the 15ieme specialising in the wines, cheeses and spirits of the Franche Comte.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS-eG4uNhCLZhewBOElW84WvpINGTro5FSzOpOeM2ZVNAv39efSH6CaubmgpfnHWNBKmeooCeitLHl1XKidnrfpKoiis_pBXgu90UEZr-KFajXkp0-ay7u9OBRJH20HxE_2beFoAUsWlHT_fWQK-CDdDGVZKDa2G-Emf1SBjNVQCi2DNanYwEsxUlNcx1p/s1920/Byards%20Poulsardf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS-eG4uNhCLZhewBOElW84WvpINGTro5FSzOpOeM2ZVNAv39efSH6CaubmgpfnHWNBKmeooCeitLHl1XKidnrfpKoiis_pBXgu90UEZr-KFajXkp0-ay7u9OBRJH20HxE_2beFoAUsWlHT_fWQK-CDdDGVZKDa2G-Emf1SBjNVQCi2DNanYwEsxUlNcx1p/w300-h400/Byards%20Poulsardf.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbflwOWTbFIumWYg1ReuAeNbs1Woq_rQr1v3wa0CWd2k-jXi4AHXz2EolJf7PQFhPZyUwclxrl1Nree6iT5s4DBqY0yjHYjjMKAq6IPwra6RlFfa-wf0Dtx5Cd_55LSn3hp6nJlfF3orlkhsFC9Vw_P2s4U8IFWAM6caTVno-dh7mxrY8ekbiJkHgcT-T9/s1920/Byards%20Poulsardb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbflwOWTbFIumWYg1ReuAeNbs1Woq_rQr1v3wa0CWd2k-jXi4AHXz2EolJf7PQFhPZyUwclxrl1Nree6iT5s4DBqY0yjHYjjMKAq6IPwra6RlFfa-wf0Dtx5Cd_55LSn3hp6nJlfF3orlkhsFC9Vw_P2s4U8IFWAM6caTVno-dh7mxrY8ekbiJkHgcT-T9/w300-h400/Byards%20Poulsardb.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here we bought a Poulsard by the Caveau des Byards which disappointed slightly as an expression of the grape. Maybe something to do with the Abv being over 12.5%?</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCDwcP68awqkZamEqkRNkZtV3Mi-u8UeVsGkB5rdBHwM7T165aS6S3n7NBwMi9vhCO2vcLg_i7X561lSYCSxkRywfR637WsA5MhFDafaeobJkf4G8N31lcJB8DM-NYbJaoNg06NUS6Drcog2Zcqxp4s6A4YQquPpjX7LzQcZJUm2wXrQGGaqHtlC00enqi/s1920/Guillaume%20G'Pf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCDwcP68awqkZamEqkRNkZtV3Mi-u8UeVsGkB5rdBHwM7T165aS6S3n7NBwMi9vhCO2vcLg_i7X561lSYCSxkRywfR637WsA5MhFDafaeobJkf4G8N31lcJB8DM-NYbJaoNg06NUS6Drcog2Zcqxp4s6A4YQquPpjX7LzQcZJUm2wXrQGGaqHtlC00enqi/w300-h400/Guillaume%20G'Pf.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXFYRRJTT-X75DV8T-TDkiUm7otZblNYn9cA4eRirQbAPpGNfXjJYT9JhzcRw9J2BGnuuilIhrhtf7TO7NBoBSYfCnNwv6smqx_YpSjeaghxixsR2i-mumt28bVqYjRKEqCqMNl4Zb7nzmMRnlQcH5395fWkAVhKA5Rhey3ZRIzosQAUJLKBCYgOXR-hHR/s1920/Guillaumeb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXFYRRJTT-X75DV8T-TDkiUm7otZblNYn9cA4eRirQbAPpGNfXjJYT9JhzcRw9J2BGnuuilIhrhtf7TO7NBoBSYfCnNwv6smqx_YpSjeaghxixsR2i-mumt28bVqYjRKEqCqMNl4Zb7nzmMRnlQcH5395fWkAVhKA5Rhey3ZRIzosQAUJLKBCYgOXR-hHR/w300-h400/Guillaumeb.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div>What made the journey worthwhile was this bottle. 'Les Inattendus' indeed. A Poulsard made outside the Jura! Charcenne is admittedly just over the border in the Haute Saone but this was unexpected all the same. It's a pity that this too wasn't very Poulsardien, pleasant enough as it was. The only other place we can find where Poulsard has been planted is at Bugey - still Jura.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7PebbIRfMlq01lqPmrYXYKANKt_qPFDzx_v6KPVUijiPw-0Xs59tkn8jXF-_YOAMcuBnFlm71lgjeHG5TF21ktsvpxu1SNxUYuxEjk7G5srEuHkR_eF6MokdIfitcnrOaZCZqXL9KkJ4Mqo_iIhKGLYxV9eTOznp96J7csTJTvMaE18uUU_hHE7V0YcY7/s275/La%20Nouvelle%20Cave.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7PebbIRfMlq01lqPmrYXYKANKt_qPFDzx_v6KPVUijiPw-0Xs59tkn8jXF-_YOAMcuBnFlm71lgjeHG5TF21ktsvpxu1SNxUYuxEjk7G5srEuHkR_eF6MokdIfitcnrOaZCZqXL9KkJ4Mqo_iIhKGLYxV9eTOznp96J7csTJTvMaE18uUU_hHE7V0YcY7/w400-h266/La%20Nouvelle%20Cave.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>We also visited Les Vignerons Parisiens while in Paris (see recent post). The original site for the urban winery was in the Rue Turbigo. This has now become their retail wine shop. Named 'Nouvelle Cave' you wouldn't know it was connected to Les Vignerons Parisiens but they stock the LVP wines and much else.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2VikgvJ4J7IxNnAGpguZhQkMzv1ZgqUueE7GoCoGd1Ax4NDRLGM0iMpU-ZbRzHsKW9d-xaT-h319ZpoC0SFRQt96W-p4MPChGPq66mJx9re7Qt-mF_8NHGe4ftXk9hiX3qlWlF-XRMcCoHOubxqnLkAyVwb2jddVlaUfOtH_Biw_LY_mAYTfKA0rpBaa2/s1920/Serinef.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2VikgvJ4J7IxNnAGpguZhQkMzv1ZgqUueE7GoCoGd1Ax4NDRLGM0iMpU-ZbRzHsKW9d-xaT-h319ZpoC0SFRQt96W-p4MPChGPq66mJx9re7Qt-mF_8NHGe4ftXk9hiX3qlWlF-XRMcCoHOubxqnLkAyVwb2jddVlaUfOtH_Biw_LY_mAYTfKA0rpBaa2/w300-h400/Serinef.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgic6sp6VaXSQ4uxmuhuSUWq50O6Cdib2GYGkZZ1hxL-9bcKrsgo_YQJlUfQCofp6c9mQwRjOPE2q71gymIsMHR57FpVrqJ8SJBj0g8yRQ6UgtBrSwKv1V84T-1NDcbglio3ZSV0o33MAJyVIG3vGwtYhJPnjlVECQm0Zyr_3to_DyZqTM5C9PmXTQNuceu/s1920/Serineb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgic6sp6VaXSQ4uxmuhuSUWq50O6Cdib2GYGkZZ1hxL-9bcKrsgo_YQJlUfQCofp6c9mQwRjOPE2q71gymIsMHR57FpVrqJ8SJBj0g8yRQ6UgtBrSwKv1V84T-1NDcbglio3ZSV0o33MAJyVIG3vGwtYhJPnjlVECQm0Zyr_3to_DyZqTM5C9PmXTQNuceu/w300-h400/Serineb.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Here we bought the bottle of Serine referred to in the post on Les Vignerons Parisiens. Serine is a biotype of Syrah.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjibi4NsVRRUb5NrxxF4lZrVh1i0XTjEmLtlPBDW6wOIKDttQo2eKo7_JF23HAzUteY4KVhmtUJ58trg-z0mf0kH3Cu7pXqg70H0Uj1b9uchquDwL_u8qn9TAaQKByBRqpfVwe_oek739nJLcePzarhaeZ3Zg3kze_EQgFHDmhKCRkI0OCrrPgJz-tPeC9C/s1920/Lornet%20Ploussardf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjibi4NsVRRUb5NrxxF4lZrVh1i0XTjEmLtlPBDW6wOIKDttQo2eKo7_JF23HAzUteY4KVhmtUJ58trg-z0mf0kH3Cu7pXqg70H0Uj1b9uchquDwL_u8qn9TAaQKByBRqpfVwe_oek739nJLcePzarhaeZ3Zg3kze_EQgFHDmhKCRkI0OCrrPgJz-tPeC9C/w300-h400/Lornet%20Ploussardf.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Other purchases in Paris were this Ploussard</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcD9vQWvf6Au1FAyFnwFNLMM4fJc85CEAyd7QgC4HsxxnNH0aPYgJhfntHpccjnutITR4dcWds7WvWFOpmZJ6gza0eBnsedqyQRrOKhHfvcgDpZMZTZf0uVhj2YaU3aCRmhXXPyE1WUl3ibEHLi5eaHxRBJFmQZMoCwkwI6OQIuJhCnhTHkMZ6pWdGTmvZ/s1920/Grolleaufront.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcD9vQWvf6Au1FAyFnwFNLMM4fJc85CEAyd7QgC4HsxxnNH0aPYgJhfntHpccjnutITR4dcWds7WvWFOpmZJ6gza0eBnsedqyQRrOKhHfvcgDpZMZTZf0uVhj2YaU3aCRmhXXPyE1WUl3ibEHLi5eaHxRBJFmQZMoCwkwI6OQIuJhCnhTHkMZ6pWdGTmvZ/w300-h400/Grolleaufront.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghVHxJq3waIuUIxlyfkBXHTOCN2gQ5WwOkTg2QuzT6Jbk2txViNIIXwn8muOYjD3SN7PjuhD_UTxyTa5v2ncylUaN33tc2o9RWwTNf-0ZAsl9p3krl1iwAOjoTrB_msQDJpBSgMh13GOMfRBP3Vs69gzIioWs05zWqbZJybNNJOUOuzwyd9lBAWu-vDJS3/s1920/Grolleauback.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghVHxJq3waIuUIxlyfkBXHTOCN2gQ5WwOkTg2QuzT6Jbk2txViNIIXwn8muOYjD3SN7PjuhD_UTxyTa5v2ncylUaN33tc2o9RWwTNf-0ZAsl9p3krl1iwAOjoTrB_msQDJpBSgMh13GOMfRBP3Vs69gzIioWs05zWqbZJybNNJOUOuzwyd9lBAWu-vDJS3/w300-h400/Grolleauback.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div>and a Grolleau. We do love our Grolleau. </div><div><br /></div><div>The grape is the third most planted red in the Loire. Only Cabernet Franc and Gamay are more common. Nevertheless, there has been a dramatic decline since 1958 when nearly 11,500 ha. were recorded. By 2009, there were 2,350 only.</div><div><br /></div><div>So don't forget Grolleau. You will be doing yourself a favour as well as showing growers that this variety is appreciated.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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There is also a handsome wine shop near the Boulevard Haussman.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQPNgorEiT1ex1kXMPa8bQYbbD4_HTmTIOwanyrwoRcK5z4By7TCkVMQgQZ9xrRHwum6yizCLqIPxjv_rrSGDLrTZR1Ko0QxRfOS_nSjHMwAALfKUEht2SMoMaiLDM7f2JPrwQ5qLrP_reIwhafYK9zZtGqoKC9NteBv04VRjHLgHAMQwA_TS-ScE48pU6/s1920/LVP%20Tasting%20table.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQPNgorEiT1ex1kXMPa8bQYbbD4_HTmTIOwanyrwoRcK5z4By7TCkVMQgQZ9xrRHwum6yizCLqIPxjv_rrSGDLrTZR1Ko0QxRfOS_nSjHMwAALfKUEht2SMoMaiLDM7f2JPrwQ5qLrP_reIwhafYK9zZtGqoKC9NteBv04VRjHLgHAMQwA_TS-ScE48pU6/s320/LVP%20Tasting%20table.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The facility offers tours, tastings and education ('Ateliers'). There was everything needed to make wine in the relatively small area of the 'chaix' under the arches of the Avenue Daumesnil.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFweO3Ze6Lc4TyUpmyNFvnyiP9N4KSstOyVgk6qegm5uRRMICcmcE8IuS-lC1KbDxlIYTCkO72q_G_xMzXJZZWpvqRKntG1BQAKPFg8Bj-T25tXHwpdAERI2olQ4tx2aNeipa7Dt5RDFIGsXSJqJVgKJ4GpVmbTWnzTcfAKd1JbQHiy0DxYDDBtbVCV5vv/s1920/LVP%20Press.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFweO3Ze6Lc4TyUpmyNFvnyiP9N4KSstOyVgk6qegm5uRRMICcmcE8IuS-lC1KbDxlIYTCkO72q_G_xMzXJZZWpvqRKntG1BQAKPFg8Bj-T25tXHwpdAERI2olQ4tx2aNeipa7Dt5RDFIGsXSJqJVgKJ4GpVmbTWnzTcfAKd1JbQHiy0DxYDDBtbVCV5vv/w400-h300/LVP%20Press.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The press</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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We read subsequently that this is quite highly rated in Jancis Robinson's 'Purple Pages'.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><p>Later we paid a visit to the retail shop and bought an interesting-looking bottle of Serine (a biotype of Syrah) among others.</p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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For the first time ever we had fed our vines and they went crazy. Chicken manure was what they got and boy did they appreciate it.<p></p><p>We also managed our bird problem by means of a dummy Kite. That really worked.</p><p>As in previous years we bought in Italian grapes as well as picking our own.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBmHCO36UHVNc0qixH9WGb86e5SM7C8l8W7qVePXoADHsshPB2-aSYj0wciaIV1cj8oMEuwc3iBicSw8bfWF3A1xlvdDWr4urNENgvyU3RsYAQHcinW0xgzBlm8y-conNqWVGjUz6-sbMaPTx1NWR1GueC6G4cXJPVrRyn2ufgLiSLUfV8p28TKYCDz9NP/s1920/23%20waiting%20cars.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBmHCO36UHVNc0qixH9WGb86e5SM7C8l8W7qVePXoADHsshPB2-aSYj0wciaIV1cj8oMEuwc3iBicSw8bfWF3A1xlvdDWr4urNENgvyU3RsYAQHcinW0xgzBlm8y-conNqWVGjUz6-sbMaPTx1NWR1GueC6G4cXJPVrRyn2ufgLiSLUfV8p28TKYCDz9NP/w400-h300/23%20waiting%20cars.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waiting for the gates at Uva D'Italia to open. Enfield, London.</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhNpsCh64vFcH6Qabt_8oShbkOldyp1Tv-p06v_U1pmPukAcSAVR9WJJLSrzXxXNpxcmxQQnR4xOA5FaXV-Wn0f1wlKhhNf9kgk6x0cuz2VoZ7iIz4Be9cRZa9iA863NfKBEJrz1Ptmv_Wsszelwoqy2k5Y3roOHjxqFYOi8ea9YUSmkLJsPIWdVegEPEM/s1920/23%20loading%20inside.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhNpsCh64vFcH6Qabt_8oShbkOldyp1Tv-p06v_U1pmPukAcSAVR9WJJLSrzXxXNpxcmxQQnR4xOA5FaXV-Wn0f1wlKhhNf9kgk6x0cuz2VoZ7iIz4Be9cRZa9iA863NfKBEJrz1Ptmv_Wsszelwoqy2k5Y3roOHjxqFYOi8ea9YUSmkLJsPIWdVegEPEM/w400-h300/23%20loading%20inside.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Loading.</td></tr></tbody></table><p>But that resulted in almost more grapes than we could handle. Fun as it is to make wine with Italian grapes, we won't need any next year if the harvest of our own is as big as it was in 2023.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We made:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><u>Grapes from Italy (Puglia)</u></div><br /><div>A 50-50 Montepulciano/Sangiovese co-ferment</div><div>Syrah</div><div>Trebbiano</div><div><br /></div><div><u>Grapes from our experimental vineyard (Thames Valley)</u></div><div><u><br /></u></div><div>Solaris</div><div>Johanniter</div><div>Souvignier Gris</div><div>Calardis</div><div>Fidelio</div><div>Rondo</div><div>Regent</div><div>Cabernet ('Cabaret') Noir</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbRZaxK0G3O81qoYpKE0EXkgsbNhqb276HSlm2ggWGzS04b8pZjEWw122wE2f2_1MTTgxW7pDcoOqTLAmJGAkrkfeY50O4yVPzkJ44FGGpwLJGxC8LtMzkeTwNQkONndxcyVdu57Pa15_0ePGlkJJLtvv4Tn3HqFw1HcIUfx7hyphenhyphenRWk5Mgd8iSEOh2u5z6M/s1920/23%20Trebbiano%20botts.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbRZaxK0G3O81qoYpKE0EXkgsbNhqb276HSlm2ggWGzS04b8pZjEWw122wE2f2_1MTTgxW7pDcoOqTLAmJGAkrkfeY50O4yVPzkJ44FGGpwLJGxC8LtMzkeTwNQkONndxcyVdu57Pa15_0ePGlkJJLtvv4Tn3HqFw1HcIUfx7hyphenhyphenRWk5Mgd8iSEOh2u5z6M/w300-h400/23%20Trebbiano%20botts.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trebbiano<br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Our Trebbiano has come out a bit on the sweet side. We had trouble with this grape last time we tried to make it. White wines can be trickier than red. Vediamo.<div><br /><div>Syrah didn't taste as good as last time but shows signs of improvement in bottle.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYswFF4_9nK3gHK-j_9aZNZQ4W5v2SeVtlw16wpOYE5xIZ9BXiDhQCVQk-ICOYcevhXs2pCwMZrhcJ8egrifhUJRU68PHyvZsno49Aq2hW8JyufKmuBEhJCj11A7wNT-UovZhKRZMvJ1LwTpP-SxNXWb5P9cYBGLB_UmXj6tTHvwD8OMx0S5WNo84q7Okb/s1920/MONTSang%20botts.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYswFF4_9nK3gHK-j_9aZNZQ4W5v2SeVtlw16wpOYE5xIZ9BXiDhQCVQk-ICOYcevhXs2pCwMZrhcJ8egrifhUJRU68PHyvZsno49Aq2hW8JyufKmuBEhJCj11A7wNT-UovZhKRZMvJ1LwTpP-SxNXWb5P9cYBGLB_UmXj6tTHvwD8OMx0S5WNo84q7Okb/w400-h300/MONTSang%20botts.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>We co-fermented the Montepulciano with Sangiovese because previously our Montepulciano <i>in purezza </i>was surprisingly acidic whereas Sangiovese had been more accommodating.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8ynhrPbZU-_GLiSz38fodYVAFQxmmO4hWswIX8Na3SWadIn37u6s5E2MMpi_KVpUahhiv-ozWri5XuGcnlvt5ZKASSxUZjXtftrB_Op9Gs61YlZ05whXStSf5Azca-ZX63_HLrpJ6y1sVCj2RplFUCQSsAKih64d3_7leQqXo-51sWbX-gPIx9GAxZ0Hm/s1920/23%20Solaris%20grapes%20in%20trailer.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8ynhrPbZU-_GLiSz38fodYVAFQxmmO4hWswIX8Na3SWadIn37u6s5E2MMpi_KVpUahhiv-ozWri5XuGcnlvt5ZKASSxUZjXtftrB_Op9Gs61YlZ05whXStSf5Azca-ZX63_HLrpJ6y1sVCj2RplFUCQSsAKih64d3_7leQqXo-51sWbX-gPIx9GAxZ0Hm/w300-h400/23%20Solaris%20grapes%20in%20trailer.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Solaris</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div>Solaris was the first white to ripen. The quantity was incredible. What usually took us an hour to pick took all day. </div><div><br /></div><div>We have to own up to a disaster in the course of making our Solaris. A 34 litre demijohn slipped and shattered during racking and what was left of the wine was probably oxygenated. We don't have much hope but as they say in Bordeaux, 'on ne sait jamais avec ces choses.'</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL5nY7datW2TCqz6Pifb5Azhz8R65cBNgyxdRlCSco9Za2rVIRYXn1-MD4UK0J8BZV_9WPc4u_kzluETpTyT4w1ow2c14gPmgH8_9Re__x7CN-F02N-SUZskKevpirOv71OU18NLKk2NN2IUMzMx2jQJQMb8E8u17nBVqdweDwpC2Ju_YmHWvCboLx0Cr-/s1920/23%20Rondo%20botts.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL5nY7datW2TCqz6Pifb5Azhz8R65cBNgyxdRlCSco9Za2rVIRYXn1-MD4UK0J8BZV_9WPc4u_kzluETpTyT4w1ow2c14gPmgH8_9Re__x7CN-F02N-SUZskKevpirOv71OU18NLKk2NN2IUMzMx2jQJQMb8E8u17nBVqdweDwpC2Ju_YmHWvCboLx0Cr-/w400-h300/23%20Rondo%20botts.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rondo bottles</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div>Next came Rondo. We have only about 20 vines of this but there was enough to vinify it separately. Normally we would have thrown whatever we had in with our Regent which makes up the bulk of the red grapes in our right block. This Rondo is tasting rather promising. (Surprise!).<br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpoAg-rTQbAh7B_UIuHHdB_-Czt82X6W0kzNLENDMGW9A5PFhyphenhyphen9VPyK5ftcwOsBABVpLfSTKhbAJGTgIlBE31bMCXaaff9q4CwX1QDDZ0Rxp0Yzr6W86TKdQHn0rD66uJ-D44rwZY9ko-BwNK7AxK6ROFNxMdyvkaTO3mEQuizYlDhvbKqnPHfu938Vspf/s1920/23%20Johanniter%20botts.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpoAg-rTQbAh7B_UIuHHdB_-Czt82X6W0kzNLENDMGW9A5PFhyphenhyphen9VPyK5ftcwOsBABVpLfSTKhbAJGTgIlBE31bMCXaaff9q4CwX1QDDZ0Rxp0Yzr6W86TKdQHn0rD66uJ-D44rwZY9ko-BwNK7AxK6ROFNxMdyvkaTO3mEQuizYlDhvbKqnPHfu938Vspf/s320/23%20Johanniter%20botts.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Johanniter</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div>As with Rondo, we had never had enough Johanniter to vinify separately and Johanniter is not quite as resistant as say Solaris so it was a pleasant surprise again, thanks to the chicken manure to find quantity enough to make for the first time a separate vinification.</div><div><br /></div><div>We're not sure where this Johanniter is going. On bottling it tasted rather like a grassy old-fashioned English wine. Drinkable but not very exciting. Elevage could help as we have seen in the past with Solaris.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ7kiI32JiEtnJqu7SyehL7JBmFQR6It-IYGk5HFpyf9HguHIhHKXWWBwu63w5oetMGsBqD2O5pWCB2SOvMetBtu2gqlAAdDhfXMI2kyKDwO5A78RQwm5M0FD5q7T73Rm4CiQiDqgzoRb4xGydyo5FGkilpvAjqbVPHlzn0F3YpRtDFJLChNfF6f4Y5gT4/s1920/23%20Souv%20Gris%20grapes.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ7kiI32JiEtnJqu7SyehL7JBmFQR6It-IYGk5HFpyf9HguHIhHKXWWBwu63w5oetMGsBqD2O5pWCB2SOvMetBtu2gqlAAdDhfXMI2kyKDwO5A78RQwm5M0FD5q7T73Rm4CiQiDqgzoRb4xGydyo5FGkilpvAjqbVPHlzn0F3YpRtDFJLChNfF6f4Y5gT4/w300-h400/23%20Souv%20Gris%20grapes.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Souvignier Gris bunch<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Souvignier Gris grapes have a lovely pink tinge to them and the variety is aromatic so we decided to make an experimental Orange Wine, again with our first ever separate vinification of this variety.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Q6ge5iHeYPGajMtdXT080TcOBW9g11Ax_2zA2M8ETvX_DGlOvRPqIOS2RSc7xegbc4zS77vb5nyDMao4e_HghQAgWLgadWYFmQWUkKAqT-hXs21Xg8BjiwgfgT5iToOqbcFi41naAuX991WJ2ijFbo76D07JWoIb2M-0leSEA6oOZTqGpy9nx7ARK1Km/s1920/23%20Souv%20G%20botts.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Q6ge5iHeYPGajMtdXT080TcOBW9g11Ax_2zA2M8ETvX_DGlOvRPqIOS2RSc7xegbc4zS77vb5nyDMao4e_HghQAgWLgadWYFmQWUkKAqT-hXs21Xg8BjiwgfgT5iToOqbcFi41naAuX991WJ2ijFbo76D07JWoIb2M-0leSEA6oOZTqGpy9nx7ARK1Km/w400-h300/23%20Souv%20G%20botts.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br />As you can see, a week's maceration produced a gorgeous golden wine. What little we tasted on bottling was rather awful though. Again. in Elevage we trust to bring this round to something drinkable one day. Stranger things have happened in this business.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib2ma8ZTegGBZSeuFlIAUD3S_K0wvxlp0546OrQG07ICa11z0BF-p9Za9KLoEYZ_ZTtI57a1Mtt1850dk0NwkSlYgwnkgJIXHPYSkjRoZjG-0ykcc63vsQcI3lgAJ4m2Xnfcx4Xg78f7rwCEyAy92cenn42yjSqLEEUFU1rEJg0FpK6r7XvcUTGv6gGewM/s1920/23%20Rondo%20grapes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib2ma8ZTegGBZSeuFlIAUD3S_K0wvxlp0546OrQG07ICa11z0BF-p9Za9KLoEYZ_ZTtI57a1Mtt1850dk0NwkSlYgwnkgJIXHPYSkjRoZjG-0ykcc63vsQcI3lgAJ4m2Xnfcx4Xg78f7rwCEyAy92cenn42yjSqLEEUFU1rEJg0FpK6r7XvcUTGv6gGewM/w400-h300/23%20Rondo%20grapes.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><div>Next came our main red variety, Regent. As you see, this was abundant and we made 60 litres in one of our Speidel fermenters. We are already quite happy with the results. </div></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOoMr_0WAbx59Oa5mkrlQYAZbGLOWTzcYYTP-JBpCyToNOyBbrdt1v_9gbNMgNxlJzM5hYPydYi6NHsi_eWmIRROa0vSKQkFj8gOXp77poiXpAyofLvC89uF1nlJnij2mb06ojlSP9PhJ3AfjDQLQ_v7oFx9vzuVxExF_aki34lHTmeSEcDjysduMdg7Sz/s1920/23%20Fidelio%20botts.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOoMr_0WAbx59Oa5mkrlQYAZbGLOWTzcYYTP-JBpCyToNOyBbrdt1v_9gbNMgNxlJzM5hYPydYi6NHsi_eWmIRROa0vSKQkFj8gOXp77poiXpAyofLvC89uF1nlJnij2mb06ojlSP9PhJ3AfjDQLQ_v7oFx9vzuVxExF_aki34lHTmeSEcDjysduMdg7Sz/s320/23%20Fidelio%20botts.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fidelio</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>Another great excitement in 2023 was the discovery (posted in these pages) that our Geisenheim GM8107-3 and our Geilweilerhof GF93-22-6 have recently been dignified with their own names, Fidelio and Calardis Blanc respectively. Fidelio we love but Calardis (the Roman name for Geilweilerhof) doesn't trip off the tongue so well. </div><div><br /></div><div>Nevertheless, once more there were quantities sufficient to make separate wines with these plantings although we threw in some other grapes to make up the Calardis - about 25% consisting of Phoenix. Helios and Orion. We call this 'Calardis and Friends.'</div><div><br /></div><div>To start with, the Fidelio appeared to be the better of these two but now maybe the Calardis and friends is the one. </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_K1uoSa3A0o7EIiJw8A9tXNjvr3T7JX7nFa-s97RE8sYx_IaPP3jvs0-iSMVMBmXRaHFwGlrpYnKhpRgD6ctcGvp9UQOgNq4kYd7Go1FRXIj750emtiaBIqmd7lswcRCQYku2Ev24Z1Amg1QcfN1c4xnu2EeXSvAgZnv6TXlSr7V1OKdCdEGiBJErpd08/s1920/23%20CabN%20botts.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_K1uoSa3A0o7EIiJw8A9tXNjvr3T7JX7nFa-s97RE8sYx_IaPP3jvs0-iSMVMBmXRaHFwGlrpYnKhpRgD6ctcGvp9UQOgNq4kYd7Go1FRXIj750emtiaBIqmd7lswcRCQYku2Ev24Z1Amg1QcfN1c4xnu2EeXSvAgZnv6TXlSr7V1OKdCdEGiBJErpd08/s320/23%20CabN%20botts.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cab Noir</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div>Our left block is planted mainly with the Blattner variety originally called Cabernet Noir but now obliged to be known as Cabaret Noir no doubt due to objections by the Cabernet lobby (who knew of such a thing?). Our planting there covers more than one year so the vines are of varying maturity. Another UK grower of Cabaret Noir said they only pick in October. We found this strange because when we bough this variety we understood it ripened at the same time as Rondo if not before. </div><div><br /></div><div>By the time we picked on October 1st, the wasps had eaten their fill so there was not much in the way of quantity. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTyhCpDXQ5ksAHpIKdw3wAVaUqtCVv569MKcr0vvnUB5vhwLb3KjWT4uL34-WUuqGKBNWyqO_fpVG0Qr4CRqIB8eOShkJDjgyMQBDmMd_pIPgkSD_R7G0HTTWaaqDj242Pv7iWgoNab_cuuaqhuADVbxqfBYMKQn8ocA_XXFlMHb2QzNiTx-6Ic6ughgpO/s1920/23%20CabN%20young%20vines%20grapes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTyhCpDXQ5ksAHpIKdw3wAVaUqtCVv569MKcr0vvnUB5vhwLb3KjWT4uL34-WUuqGKBNWyqO_fpVG0Qr4CRqIB8eOShkJDjgyMQBDmMd_pIPgkSD_R7G0HTTWaaqDj242Pv7iWgoNab_cuuaqhuADVbxqfBYMKQn8ocA_XXFlMHb2QzNiTx-6Ic6ughgpO/w300-h400/23%20CabN%20young%20vines%20grapes.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>The grapes from the youngest vines were hard, tiny and not plentiful to say the least.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGgXU9vLuc4QCiL6JO7kkcqsQWFWMMIKdHBM2KBukN007oFdiJzTomOmqnivI0S_7ziuL7rtBJhPGcIyN6XxTHjbMTIWnYuwHGRjwZKqMzvYd25Rad5QGMSTySuW_g4Cao50WhfvYgwbnNo_j3C6ZmdUoOkbkccYGEgBzsBdw0D9T4JNKNSiJo4G4wKc0y/s1920/23%20CabN%20young%20vines%20juice.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGgXU9vLuc4QCiL6JO7kkcqsQWFWMMIKdHBM2KBukN007oFdiJzTomOmqnivI0S_7ziuL7rtBJhPGcIyN6XxTHjbMTIWnYuwHGRjwZKqMzvYd25Rad5QGMSTySuW_g4Cao50WhfvYgwbnNo_j3C6ZmdUoOkbkccYGEgBzsBdw0D9T4JNKNSiJo4G4wKc0y/w300-h400/23%20CabN%20young%20vines%20juice.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That's all, folks!</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>A cursory taste of the combined older and newer Cab Noir juice was not promising. </div><div><br /></div><div>This variety has replaced our Triomphe D'Alsace (vielles vignes) which was hopeless for wine (but made not bad grape juice). We replaces our vieilles vignes Bacchus with Soreli, deriving from (Tocai) Friulano and obtained by the Vivai Cooperativo Rauscedo. So far this Soreli has hardly produced a single grape but we live in hope.</div><div><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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Looking up </span></em><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></em><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sárfehér in 'Wine Grapes' there is nothing to be found. If you check Arany </span></em><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></em><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sárfehér, there is indeed an entry but one with the warning that this grape is not to be confused with the plain and simple </span></em><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></em><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sárfehér. </span></em></p><p><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Checking with Galet, there seems to be a grape called Izsaki </span></em><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></em><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sárfehér. Could this be the one in our bottle? Whichever </span></em><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></em><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></em><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sárfehér it is, it's a fabulous wine and we love it.<br /></span></em></p><p><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></em></p><p><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></em></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr14GfBmQxAMsPlgDkXHah4nTtGVfXUPCy6LEgUjHBCikj-3mj9rhiM4xuyyaan1VCrLhcFaGm5K-1HLxyE0bM7DviqC9eoXwdPTcAVPQTQlt6gkgA1H6S6ira80K7mXzqYTHveyZdmADpHRrPF44cCmR8q7fzxT5ag224aZ3QbAJU67np1ZAeaJmXuN1_/s1920/Sarfehers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr14GfBmQxAMsPlgDkXHah4nTtGVfXUPCy6LEgUjHBCikj-3mj9rhiM4xuyyaan1VCrLhcFaGm5K-1HLxyE0bM7DviqC9eoXwdPTcAVPQTQlt6gkgA1H6S6ira80K7mXzqYTHveyZdmADpHRrPF44cCmR8q7fzxT5ag224aZ3QbAJU67np1ZAeaJmXuN1_/w300-h400/Sarfehers.jpg" width="300" /></a></span></em></div><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> The writing on the side of the label doesn't help much. Among other things it says</span></em><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" data-ved="2ahUKEwjfsfCOyJSEAxVSZ0EAHSTGAAgQ3ewLegQIBhAT" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Y2IQFc" lang="en">A natural, unfiltered, dry, Hungarian wine.</span></span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" data-ved="2ahUKEwjfsfCOyJSEAxVSZ0EAHSTGAAgQ3ewLegQIBhAT" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Y2IQFc" lang="en">With the help of God, the whole world was created. </span></span></pre></div><p><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: georgia; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></em> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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<p>We're late and we haven't posted much in 2023 but that doesn't mean
we haven't been hard at work researching, drinking, making wine, drinking
and erm, drinking.</p><p>Here is a list of 2023 winners. We'll elaborate on them later.</p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK3thbG3cBAxnrKDp20nLNwD2k_z5Px_Qhjq0PlwbOnagpp63_MMAmAda2fHpCKFiNUKhuXboOUtWCf2kEZR6GuY3fkjjCARufRC9l5roNQum-zUYDzchxTgYg02h8lxWlVeZ7zblDfphqFUddOX1-HDVaz_CypL3RUX_7IB_aUMUXIJL0JR5G3SG3GcA5/s600/Vic%20Todoli3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="483" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK3thbG3cBAxnrKDp20nLNwD2k_z5Px_Qhjq0PlwbOnagpp63_MMAmAda2fHpCKFiNUKhuXboOUtWCf2kEZR6GuY3fkjjCARufRC9l5roNQum-zUYDzchxTgYg02h8lxWlVeZ7zblDfphqFUddOX1-HDVaz_CypL3RUX_7IB_aUMUXIJL0JR5G3SG3GcA5/w516-h640/Vic%20Todoli3.jpg" width="516" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Special Award for Diversity</span></b> <br /></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Slotovino - a plea for diversity in Wine. That's our headline but strangely enough we have never given an award for Diversity itself. </p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">This year, quite by chance, nealy all our awards are for Spain - a country so obsessed with Tempranillo and in which Airen is the most planted variety - that their secrets remain hidden in a way that, say Italy's do not. </p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">So once again, and completely by happenstance, our new Diversity award goes to Vicente Todoli wose own biography is a very model of diversity.</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Vicente Todoli, yes - he who was Chief Curator and Artistic Director of the Valencia Institute of Modern Art, founding director of the Serralves Museum in Porto and Director of the Tate Modern in London from 2003 - 2010. His career in art continues with the artistic directorship of the HangarBicocca gallery in Milan, Trustee of the Fundacio per Amor a l'Art in Valencia and President of the Botin Foundation Visual Arts Advisory Committee and no doubt much else.</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">So what about wine? He is not involved in any aspect of the wine world and apart from his most distinguished accomplishments in the world of art and what follows, he may be unknown to Wine.</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB9optibROR5xeLtVrnQWm8CVuJRn4rAugSoI2pmLKU0vChfANLpEnvxSRLZr3up0mPibdCvt0FDzRN0vrHbHkOfP_xYbPEVubt7uB0F_W5lwWAKzkFpHx8ElAho82Dc2eI5E-vVtgSR3x0UbmocYLyo43sDEXIEWiIS-T6-7wneggwCn5N-7puKgNAT5c/s275/Vic%20Todoli2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="183" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB9optibROR5xeLtVrnQWm8CVuJRn4rAugSoI2pmLKU0vChfANLpEnvxSRLZr3up0mPibdCvt0FDzRN0vrHbHkOfP_xYbPEVubt7uB0F_W5lwWAKzkFpHx8ElAho82Dc2eI5E-vVtgSR3x0UbmocYLyo43sDEXIEWiIS-T6-7wneggwCn5N-7puKgNAT5c/s1600/Vic%20Todoli2.jpeg" width="183" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">What follows is extraordinary. Through inheriting a family estate he found himself the owner of a citrus grove. A trip to a private collection near Perpignan of 80 varieties of citrus grown in pots gave him the idea of planting an orchard to preserve the genetic diversity and heritage of citrus fruit. </p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8wOW0_ft6Yir0naPSltp-Cea_A5BCPxmAR_5-0kJv8aXe42x6k17nYQqxZdQ4OctmQxOn6kysgfCmuAoxwk8bzb0A5tlpAptkz1Vz8H_ClT-Drzzm9hZMKbAs7Aa4n8fkN-5BKYBrvPzYLqSFO2ggPT12oHL_QRVfUQmAI12Bb9vumg2SEJDUNVR3L5ap/s1920/Citrus%20family%20tree.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8wOW0_ft6Yir0naPSltp-Cea_A5BCPxmAR_5-0kJv8aXe42x6k17nYQqxZdQ4OctmQxOn6kysgfCmuAoxwk8bzb0A5tlpAptkz1Vz8H_ClT-Drzzm9hZMKbAs7Aa4n8fkN-5BKYBrvPzYLqSFO2ggPT12oHL_QRVfUQmAI12Bb9vumg2SEJDUNVR3L5ap/w400-h300/Citrus%20family%20tree.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">There are now over 400 varieties grown at the Todoli Citrus Foundation at Palmira, Valencia where Vicente was born. Also a gastronomic laboratory, a library and of course a museum, an ethnobotanical museum. You don't see many of them but Vicente is the man to build one.</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">So now we can get the picture about diversity but what about a connection to grapes and wine? On a recent visit to London, we asked him that question. Here is his answer;</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">"I love all grapes"</span></b></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b><br /></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Wine
Personalit</b><b>ies</b><b> of the year: </b></span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Vicent </b><b>Tomas
</b><b>and Carmen </b><b>Torres, Carricola, Valencia, Spain.</b></span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN2mt7x-uuW5CxtB6BNrKHSSbNsyBKQ_qvbJKSEi2lpUvGRV2OQ23JXSmVkTRjTYhIV0Z5UAq5pGqSlwjRN3gFPPI2wElwPSH5Wl7Hg7w1uBjFXjOX2n0yQyOMon0nPizVfgh2evoK2e0fdRx35wpMZa1NV-g5VtHhcYThzyuKcsRmAdyO-uMpOG6hGNrD/s227/Tomas%20Torres%20coupls.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="227" data-original-width="222" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN2mt7x-uuW5CxtB6BNrKHSSbNsyBKQ_qvbJKSEi2lpUvGRV2OQ23JXSmVkTRjTYhIV0Z5UAq5pGqSlwjRN3gFPPI2wElwPSH5Wl7Hg7w1uBjFXjOX2n0yQyOMon0nPizVfgh2evoK2e0fdRx35wpMZa1NV-g5VtHhcYThzyuKcsRmAdyO-uMpOG6hGNrD/w391-h400/Tomas%20Torres%20coupls.jpeg" width="391" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><b><br /></b></span></span></span><p></p>
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The charming couple Vicent Tomas and Carmen Torres were making wine over 20 years ago for their own consumption before they decided to make it for us. </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Everything, including the bottling is done by hand. The vineyard is completely organic. For Slotovino, it is also the choice of two rare white grape varieties that caught our attention; Tardana and the ultra-rare Tortosi.</p><p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2b1YmMB22ZyDQjCLgHFKxdVgxzT02YDaH7KZz9Dg6sNZ5-4kjzOARgtfjj9m7mn0CvnLvhs2pq96xOOrf2p0r-o1KFP8vijMM8u1RfuF_byb_WPqRjiTSEhUAeDCwLo4nn0sW8OewgR015-IkZLDaWI6lLWVoe-LvhNDx27Ul28q9CElgcTWnxf_NnSuw/s350/al-tall-blanc-350x350.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="350" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2b1YmMB22ZyDQjCLgHFKxdVgxzT02YDaH7KZz9Dg6sNZ5-4kjzOARgtfjj9m7mn0CvnLvhs2pq96xOOrf2p0r-o1KFP8vijMM8u1RfuF_byb_WPqRjiTSEhUAeDCwLo4nn0sW8OewgR015-IkZLDaWI6lLWVoe-LvhNDx27Ul28q9CElgcTWnxf_NnSuw/w400-h400/al-tall-blanc-350x350.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Al Tall Blanc is 100% Tortosi</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>We have celebrated Tardana previously. It's an excellent variety also known as Planta Nova. Confusingly another synonym is Tortozon but Tortosi is something else altogether. According to Galet it is an Tunisian variety known as Nave.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBR0ELTZilGLUtuDkJB18F28KkAMj6DpCUhLodEj_T2IU8gVF93fa0t3VWBjWpl9wW-FkLhh5-QcvY7JV_2jrDrfWj4OBKmfdEul6ruIEkfk68iiSQ-iGF7CEpXcdGbC5IJGcay-njK4EHC6znA6sIkTz_wLn-doHjw1Iene9i-zxzZiLSAaKvoloF3K1O/s1920/Tomas%20Torres%20Al%20Tall%20Blanc%20blend.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBR0ELTZilGLUtuDkJB18F28KkAMj6DpCUhLodEj_T2IU8gVF93fa0t3VWBjWpl9wW-FkLhh5-QcvY7JV_2jrDrfWj4OBKmfdEul6ruIEkfk68iiSQ-iGF7CEpXcdGbC5IJGcay-njK4EHC6znA6sIkTz_wLn-doHjw1Iene9i-zxzZiLSAaKvoloF3K1O/w300-h400/Tomas%20Torres%20Al%20Tall%20Blanc%20blend.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAoLZf9-zdxF5Evo1MZyE7omf3fNgLR4VoRe-1Xm5KzMDiECs0aWZKC9RHAfwLzDZX8AUyJq9adKk_kS8gc35MM9cC9LVlC2pMgc92IQHbo453uGNzWmpZSbD3VHQiGXTpK9VgcKCmiLCncyDPfVF8WXmLL078QkEfTpvV3Pu0DiwvgBlZPKk9R7SG4Ngs/s1920/Tomas%20Torres%20All%20tal%20Blanc%20blends.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAoLZf9-zdxF5Evo1MZyE7omf3fNgLR4VoRe-1Xm5KzMDiECs0aWZKC9RHAfwLzDZX8AUyJq9adKk_kS8gc35MM9cC9LVlC2pMgc92IQHbo453uGNzWmpZSbD3VHQiGXTpK9VgcKCmiLCncyDPfVF8WXmLL078QkEfTpvV3Pu0DiwvgBlZPKk9R7SG4Ngs/w300-h400/Tomas%20Torres%20All%20tal%20Blanc%20blends.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Al Tall Blanc Tardana, Macabeo, Tortosi blend</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>We also found a wine called Diania consisting of Giro (another rarity) and Valenci. Valenci is a table grape from the area. Listed but not described by Galet, Celler Tomas Torres may be the only producers to work with this grape.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXh80ZF0fa6QnUdoVT_6ShBGvQYrMRvbl-v30o1xAYDXwUlJdjOqPXxseQE6gEFLUEA7gqLhR8rNL_4KZu5lpp00D9HL4IRA8FwPQQW4PBMYG2-VXrCwSpe-6LhZMNSp39tBlaBKLjY4qfMhJ0kftc1ggbEeH6DLQ18fy-uKj6Oa-adtEt7guBSninmonx/s673/Screenshot%202024-03-12%20at%2017-14-47%20Celler%20Tom%C3%A0s%20Torres%20Diania%202021%20-%20Valencia%20%E2%80%94%20Gergovie%20Wines.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="673" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXh80ZF0fa6QnUdoVT_6ShBGvQYrMRvbl-v30o1xAYDXwUlJdjOqPXxseQE6gEFLUEA7gqLhR8rNL_4KZu5lpp00D9HL4IRA8FwPQQW4PBMYG2-VXrCwSpe-6LhZMNSp39tBlaBKLjY4qfMhJ0kftc1ggbEeH6DLQ18fy-uKj6Oa-adtEt7guBSninmonx/s320/Screenshot%202024-03-12%20at%2017-14-47%20Celler%20Tom%C3%A0s%20Torres%20Diania%202021%20-%20Valencia%20%E2%80%94%20Gergovie%20Wines.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Diania is one of the most delectable wines you could ever taste.<br /><p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">So far so good, but it is the sheer quality of the wines that catapults Tomas and Torres into our wine personalities of the year. </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">They also grow Macabeu, Ull de Llebre (Tempranillo), Cabernet Sauvignon, Garnacha, Giro, Merlot, Valenci and Syrah. Wines are made "with no fuss" The vineyard comprises not much more than 5 hectares. Prices are reasonable. </p><p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJozPDjxY-4j2HteuipCXwRuYy7veFSO5HLu1GYrYUr-kc07IPQPxVYPjTMTsbRsJUB-d_asrcL_zFtK2tjb36a2ZYidrxqQRaSF6tcfb4CCK9YahEmp2bXDrC7lTt2n0E4nXpdGqMj9_Ij9-ZxZFqG7Q58cs01efi0U_UpQ9KpWUEV5h42YxJEhm_nIi1/s624/Carricola.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="624" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJozPDjxY-4j2HteuipCXwRuYy7veFSO5HLu1GYrYUr-kc07IPQPxVYPjTMTsbRsJUB-d_asrcL_zFtK2tjb36a2ZYidrxqQRaSF6tcfb4CCK9YahEmp2bXDrC7lTt2n0E4nXpdGqMj9_Ij9-ZxZFqG7Q58cs01efi0U_UpQ9KpWUEV5h42YxJEhm_nIi1/w200-h133/Carricola.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Best
Sparkling Wine: </b></span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Louis </b><b>Pommery England</b></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Made in Hampshire, this is the first English Sparling Wine grown and made by a French Champagne house in the UK and very good it is too.</span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">It started life at around £23. Now expect to pay £10 more. It is still worth it.</p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br /></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br /></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Best
White: </b></span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Heinrich Neuburger Freyheit. Oesterreichischer Landwein, Weinland. Trocken, Pannonien 2013. 12.5%</b></span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1octlz4cQpNzejQAFPk0j9VDW9-JIrkCEQ0yH9CwSBlE8Lz-ir_V2yuGPmjqnpTY4kNpKTTECgfkyh3tSyqBOBkShueHDuZWvB7RkPBFrpnWkdQgXwEDIHF6SKUsJgx4DtnlkL6wEXaR54gNyWFIpXh5wJazLgfwwanNE7rUnno_IwruTZNzzTIYDTPd3/s1920/Neuburgerf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1octlz4cQpNzejQAFPk0j9VDW9-JIrkCEQ0yH9CwSBlE8Lz-ir_V2yuGPmjqnpTY4kNpKTTECgfkyh3tSyqBOBkShueHDuZWvB7RkPBFrpnWkdQgXwEDIHF6SKUsJgx4DtnlkL6wEXaR54gNyWFIpXh5wJazLgfwwanNE7rUnno_IwruTZNzzTIYDTPd3/w300-h400/Neuburgerf.jpg" width="300" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><b><br /></b></span></span></span><p></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZeMFzvUdz2OvjT97YczR3_gfi0-mnMQYPApbmwBtY3Tmll16niRB1VIhQYlD9cJ2X_tT4vuMVam8B32auQquYERkK6qPaJtv13BmI2zJYcZNYIqbCZF0jUMUrqdp4o5xi9tdLj-67gcSrxwHDbFhukNRBVDIqwf09offzzgHIt3hX2xBD_pkdVqEjUQyo/s1920/Neuburgerb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZeMFzvUdz2OvjT97YczR3_gfi0-mnMQYPApbmwBtY3Tmll16niRB1VIhQYlD9cJ2X_tT4vuMVam8B32auQquYERkK6qPaJtv13BmI2zJYcZNYIqbCZF0jUMUrqdp4o5xi9tdLj-67gcSrxwHDbFhukNRBVDIqwf09offzzgHIt3hX2xBD_pkdVqEjUQyo/w300-h400/Neuburgerb.jpg" width="300" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><b><br /></b></span></span></span><p></p>
<p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bought in San Cassiano many years ago this bottle stood up amazingly well with the essence of Neuburger shining through. Neuburger is a spontaneous crossing of Chardonnay and Sylvaner and should be a lot better known. </span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">The back label translates as</p><pre><div class="x_elementToProof" style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">From top to bottom.</span> Don't be afraid of stem and skin contact, </div><div style="direction: ltr;">without adding sulfur, just lots of your own yeast. By drawing directly </div><div style="direction: ltr;">from the barrel into the bottle, we preserve the natural freshness and liveliness </div><div style="direction: ltr;">as well as the charming tannins. The loamy-calcareous-sandy sedimentary soil is naturally </div><div style="direction: ltr;">low in nutrients and rather barren, which suits the variety, which has now become rare, </div><div style="direction: ltr;">and leads to balanced growth of the vines. Hand-picked at the beginning of September and </div><div style="direction: ltr;">left on the mash overnight. Spontaneous fermentation and biological acid degradation. </div><div style="direction: ltr;">Matured in large oak barrels, bottled unfiltered.</div></pre><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br /></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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Red: </b></span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Nakhshirgele Aladasturi.</b></span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p>
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<b>Best
English Red: </b></span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Biddenden Gamay.</b></span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCfQU3rdHrtDAFT9dxu9nAm2myReLojDQR03URxkajB_zN5EaSNnc7gpGg6GSxKA2l0pwqLSe6fQHn-am-Vjv-NcCSVNboDHu2bNiqltUXeQdjCnDSNKSz7JF0jin2k598hb2_NN9ErTF84cN8J-29x0hFKpi7KVlWzHAxy-gI0bkYZX_32Sddp1qNK0hU/s1920/Biddenden%20Gamayf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCfQU3rdHrtDAFT9dxu9nAm2myReLojDQR03URxkajB_zN5EaSNnc7gpGg6GSxKA2l0pwqLSe6fQHn-am-Vjv-NcCSVNboDHu2bNiqltUXeQdjCnDSNKSz7JF0jin2k598hb2_NN9ErTF84cN8J-29x0hFKpi7KVlWzHAxy-gI0bkYZX_32Sddp1qNK0hU/s320/Biddenden%20Gamayf.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b></span></span></span><p></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigog3QQatHHN4Su9_fvyTsFurTItQGtoxL0c0RfEwWPx7ELdKbiso4TTJFMf4EV-ZtdYnrMg45GWPaq8LBx0_Xvt9MHnw-DKsIlfWI7ska2Fksta5xGR4dSKUs74EQj-MlpjIRNPgPXOVqlg33BYi22QRUwGP2iLynFk_zD9yAZ6MXnQNjnxNzh0OLvi67/s1920/Biddenden%20Gamayb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigog3QQatHHN4Su9_fvyTsFurTItQGtoxL0c0RfEwWPx7ELdKbiso4TTJFMf4EV-ZtdYnrMg45GWPaq8LBx0_Xvt9MHnw-DKsIlfWI7ska2Fksta5xGR4dSKUs74EQj-MlpjIRNPgPXOVqlg33BYi22QRUwGP2iLynFk_zD9yAZ6MXnQNjnxNzh0OLvi67/s320/Biddenden%20Gamayb.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><b><br /></b></span></span></span><p></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
<b>Biggest
Surprise: </b></span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Fidelio and Calardis Blanc</b></p>
<p>Here is Slotovino on that discovery made during a tasting of many of
the new varieties obtained at Geisenheim. The tasting was by courtesy of
Dipl. Ing. Bettina Lindner.<br /></p><p>Gm 8107-3<br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;">a
deliciously apply (Bettina preferred citrussy) wine from grapes
descended from Ehrenbreitsteiner and FR 52-64 (meaning a grape
cultivated by the Freiburg Institute in 1952). Ehrenbreitsteiner is
itself a crossing of two generations of other crossings. As in any other
kind of breeding the hope is that progress may be made over time.
Bettina Lindner told us she had sold the GM 8107-3 to a French gentleman
looking for varieties to plant in Brasil or some such humid part of the
world and this person had decided the variety should have a proper name
and chose 'Bettina'. We were pleased to follow his lead, so 'Bettina'
it is.</span> <br /></p><p>We bought 25 bare rooted vines and planted them
that year so the vines are now 12 years old. They have always been
quite vigorous but the grapes have never ripened fully until this year.
Suddenly we have huge bunches of beautiful large grapes undisturbed by
birds or wasps. No sign of the rather strident taste when these grapes
have not ripened properly. </p><p>All these years we have had confidence
in Gm 8107-3. Derek Pritchard of Dunkery Vineyard in Devon sells it
through his estimable www.winegrowers.info site. Every so often we have
googled old 8107 to see if it has finally been given a name. </p><p>Just
today we discover that it has indeed been given that honour and what is
more, the name is 'Fidelio' also the name of Beethoven's operatic
masterpiece. How appropriate! So nostalgically no more Bettina, welcome
Fidelio.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmOPylXUDkMdkcM4eGF_ODowDIZ0VlilDSzofHfHr4w0BP4ekTPd4WM_ZMQfWm-cEe3DV2Pk61lEGQdtJxIF69O_WX-dPoZmVdILbk4RK0mj30xmsGblqV3nIFRFGSdyq4lDEUZVwGWdT1_cgbRdxn0r5IjbpYuSvEcDXN1eYT9XpAFehpzNaafsz3ZgWV/s653/Beethoven%20gloomy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="653" data-original-width="500" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmOPylXUDkMdkcM4eGF_ODowDIZ0VlilDSzofHfHr4w0BP4ekTPd4WM_ZMQfWm-cEe3DV2Pk61lEGQdtJxIF69O_WX-dPoZmVdILbk4RK0mj30xmsGblqV3nIFRFGSdyq4lDEUZVwGWdT1_cgbRdxn0r5IjbpYuSvEcDXN1eYT9XpAFehpzNaafsz3ZgWV/w153-h200/Beethoven%20gloomy.jpg" width="153" /></a></div><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Shortly after finding out that our GM8107-3 had a name we discovered that our GF93-22-6 had also been so honoured. We were told that Calardis was the Roman name for Geilweilerhof but we can't find a confirmation of that at the moment. Quite a few wines have already been made with Calardis Blanc.</span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
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<b>Best
PIWI discovery: </b></span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Calardis Blanc</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This was very promising when we made it at our experimental vineyard. It was sold to us by Winzerhof Wolfs Brunnen back in 2015 as GF93-22-6 and has only recently been given the name Calardis Blanc; surely a recognition of its worth. Calardis was the Roman name for Geilweilerhof. See above.</span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
Best
</b><b>wine merchant</b><b>: </b></span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Gergovie Wines.</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Another guilty secret, Slotovino has been resistant to Gergovie wines because the name reminded us of the conductor Valery Gergiev who is not one of our favourites. Of course we knew that they were not associated in any way but we can only explain why it has taken us so long to celebrate this marvellous company. It is thanks to them that we discovered some amazing wines in 2023.</span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">As well as the Cellar Tomas Torres wines listed above, we found the following. All Gergovie wines seem to be organic.</p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl9wjMKE0rSoNNHUXb7wwWF39r83aJGJjImh70cRreN_tvxf6UKtEqYKMWJmot4RRcRGk9K4B-Vv2BvxindWMEQCy2ak6Mw9e2hTq-174wpg_PbUCIT0y4zXsx3DVMTY6WroiF8RGjku5Anaxfp1hazKPRmYB9moE57z9vpL-Z7z4K-E2bEQBcLW8rLhkX/s670/Screenshot%202024-03-12%20at%2016-51-52%20Calvez%20Bobinet%20Aunis%202022%20-%20Loire%20%E2%80%94%20Gergovie%20Wines.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="670" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl9wjMKE0rSoNNHUXb7wwWF39r83aJGJjImh70cRreN_tvxf6UKtEqYKMWJmot4RRcRGk9K4B-Vv2BvxindWMEQCy2ak6Mw9e2hTq-174wpg_PbUCIT0y4zXsx3DVMTY6WroiF8RGjku5Anaxfp1hazKPRmYB9moE57z9vpL-Z7z4K-E2bEQBcLW8rLhkX/w400-h399/Screenshot%202024-03-12%20at%2016-51-52%20Calvez%20Bobinet%20Aunis%202022%20-%20Loire%20%E2%80%94%20Gergovie%20Wines.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Pinot D'Aunis by Calvez 'Bobinet'</td></tr></tbody></table><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br /></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
<b>Predictions
for 202</b><b>4</b><b>: </b></span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Wines from Far East and Australasia
will become more expensive (Suez Canal).</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pretty safe prediction.</span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
<b>Best
wine supplies shop: </b></span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Hamstead Brewing Centre, Great Barr,
Birmingham.</b></span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfDl7nSzfQDERNXpN-YH2Uaoc9_zRnPj19jNdgypAgGc0dfSjT7jFMrZggXA07DjFUl7JQtVbiePSDmN6mj07eWMRJqVBkEbZbar2vtpuqkXWfDLuAZdoyTiB9PMEa5OtrtHFPFDwUQ4eVkEvXnmLEgaAPqpBTLoPRUs1-8I7vqMI6uG_8BJNX7uxlixZR/s1360/Hamstead%20Home%20Brew.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="766" data-original-width="1360" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfDl7nSzfQDERNXpN-YH2Uaoc9_zRnPj19jNdgypAgGc0dfSjT7jFMrZggXA07DjFUl7JQtVbiePSDmN6mj07eWMRJqVBkEbZbar2vtpuqkXWfDLuAZdoyTiB9PMEa5OtrtHFPFDwUQ4eVkEvXnmLEgaAPqpBTLoPRUs1-8I7vqMI6uG_8BJNX7uxlixZR/w400-h225/Hamstead%20Home%20Brew.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><b><br /></b></span></span></span><p></p>
<p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hamstead are based in Birmingham. No doubt they are a boon to wine and beer makers in the Midlands but aren't the first to come to mind in the South East. That may explain why they sometimes have equipment that is sold out elsewhere so it is very useful to know about them. Not only that but their service is second to none and they are extremely nice people.</span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
<b>Special
Award for the re-esta</b><b>b</b><b>lishment of endangered grape
variety: </b></span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #383434;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u>The ever-informative Chambers St. Wines newsletter re: Escursac;</u></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Cati and her father Jaume...began to
delve into the past of Mallorquin viticulture, planting old varieties in
collaboration with the island’s governing bodies in 2006. They were one
of two producers to start planting new vines of ancient varieties like <span class="mark27dwqnf4q" data-markjs="true" data-ogab="" data-ogac="" data-ogsb="" data-ogsc="">Escursac</span><span style="font-style: normal;">,
the local Malvasía de Banyalbufar, Girò Ros and Prensal Blanc (and
other, even lesser-known varieties like Callet Negrella and Vinater that
remain unrecognized by the D.O. authorities in Mallorca). Gradually,
some of these varieties that had been excluded from ‘modern’ or
commercial winemaking in Mallorca were accepted by the governing
organizations and included on the official register of Spanish grape
varieties. Perhaps more importantly, Cati found that she enjoyed the
wines that these varieties produced far more than the wines made from
international varieties in Mallorca, and that they were suited to a
different sort of winemaking. Harvests grew earlier and macerations got
shorter as Cati explored the potential of grapes more suited to the
Mallorquin soils, her own tastes, and especially the Mallorquin climate.
Owing to Mallorca’s long, hot, and sunny summers, the indigenous
varieties tend to be late-ripening, drought resistant, and
large-berried. These characteristics prevent them from becoming
over-ripe and protect them during dry periods.</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><br aria-hidden="true" /><span style="font-style: normal;">The most important of these varieties to Cati’s story is the red grape </span><span class="mark27dwqnf4q" data-markjs="true" data-ogab="" data-ogac="" data-ogsb="" data-ogsc="">Escursac</span><span style="font-style: normal;">.
Large-berried and late-ripening, it tends towards the production of
wines with moderate alcohol, delicate red fruit, and soft tannins. To
our knowledge, Cati makes the only bottled varietal wines in the world
from the grape, from 1.2 hectares of vines that she and her father
planted in front of the winery in 2006. Her passion for </span><span class="mark27dwqnf4q" data-markjs="true" data-ogab="" data-ogac="" data-ogsb="" data-ogsc="">Escursac</span> led to the planting of another 5 adjacent hectares in 2020." </p><p align="left" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOr0tCwk1VgxVORJLq6VnGvt6gHuWlLKyetC9OXekjFlDXpLaNyHNg6i8LoD_O0JCdhn4f21BwBA7VMdVIuGhnpHJjyXz1JUCRqrtUHx8mQh8_E-vrBi1bG32mBVOEzOFTqws55ZwDojJfcC_bXfNgPy_euPBC8tNorj3Skq3X-JiJY12mXoAogYEPyqCG/s1920/Est%20and%20Escf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOr0tCwk1VgxVORJLq6VnGvt6gHuWlLKyetC9OXekjFlDXpLaNyHNg6i8LoD_O0JCdhn4f21BwBA7VMdVIuGhnpHJjyXz1JUCRqrtUHx8mQh8_E-vrBi1bG32mBVOEzOFTqws55ZwDojJfcC_bXfNgPy_euPBC8tNorj3Skq3X-JiJY12mXoAogYEPyqCG/w300-h400/Est%20and%20Escf.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg60wc5yVHUPHyYM2iPc6cJjxdya78fpWVbMdc2i9Mu20mpXfIu6UzAk5-U3pTqSeaHLolKiYQYcIGpzw_gsMvL5SCkLsBBXVQkfX8RDohGjGiP69HbcsFeVNztPTogqJBFMVgPerI6Y_F7Og4k3e6WEjYCHeR9PaAhPZBbmcuYBgEFBILLhNGZ9a-Fegbj/s1920/Esc%20and%20Estb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg60wc5yVHUPHyYM2iPc6cJjxdya78fpWVbMdc2i9Mu20mpXfIu6UzAk5-U3pTqSeaHLolKiYQYcIGpzw_gsMvL5SCkLsBBXVQkfX8RDohGjGiP69HbcsFeVNztPTogqJBFMVgPerI6Y_F7Og4k3e6WEjYCHeR9PaAhPZBbmcuYBgEFBILLhNGZ9a-Fegbj/w300-h400/Esc%20and%20Estb.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><u style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: inherit;">Robert Parker re; Estaladina;</u></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #383434;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The official version in Bierzo now is that Estaladiña and PanyCarne are
the same variety, different from Merenzao and Bastardo that is
Trousseau. Estaladiña has a lot more color than Merenzao and also has
high acidity, as I could see in the 2022 Estaladiña. It's a serious and
austere wine with low alcohol (12.5%), very good acidity, some herbal
notes a little à la Cabernet Franc, a more Atlantic/cool-climate profile
and fine-grained but present tannins. This matured in concrete egg for
10 months. I love this profile of austerity. Some bottles produced.
94/100</span></span></p>
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<b>Book: </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><b><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-lm4ScdgEAoW5sJz9zLYrAeK5_q3b4CQmLSjsjSmfEm5IHUj4wxDiGEkUgpfVajb643rHhQQc4Mo19ivBGatVlSMqhpPml_qwwJRW2kBLO8_2Z7VDuFEED_MX7sioj_85wL0cvuE7mRAiiFn0gfBw_P2-RbEEOqI_DRI9gpDNKISQMMBjbmaYYf49QXUz/s297/Oxford%20Companion.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="170" data-original-width="297" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-lm4ScdgEAoW5sJz9zLYrAeK5_q3b4CQmLSjsjSmfEm5IHUj4wxDiGEkUgpfVajb643rHhQQc4Mo19ivBGatVlSMqhpPml_qwwJRW2kBLO8_2Z7VDuFEED_MX7sioj_85wL0cvuE7mRAiiFn0gfBw_P2-RbEEOqI_DRI9gpDNKISQMMBjbmaYYf49QXUz/w640-h366/Oxford%20Companion.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span></span><p></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Oxford Companion to Wine, 5</b><sup><b>th</b></sup><b>
Edition. Julia Harding MW and Jancis Robinson MW.</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many years in the making, this is practically a re-writing of the 4th edition. The subject Wine is fast-developing and the Oxford Companion is indispensable, especially when newly published.</span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
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<b>Various
accolades to…</b></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>All
good Beer</b></span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_B0_-gdXp4uJvBaNZrqbFv-ltVhaNyThpLQM7Kgj-rKzHeiZqcHwUd8pPY8nfcJn7sJclogU-0SP_8jWfCdbop4GHOZyGEGRkVxudLh0O8oa_qErFnyxj1gaddd34iUz5PbZjdAyDWyxkgfFAo-KGVFM3u0PZkhIEXeoUJSfakT8iWotdj5jkAEzaOrwh/s720/All%20good%20beer.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_B0_-gdXp4uJvBaNZrqbFv-ltVhaNyThpLQM7Kgj-rKzHeiZqcHwUd8pPY8nfcJn7sJclogU-0SP_8jWfCdbop4GHOZyGEGRkVxudLh0O8oa_qErFnyxj1gaddd34iUz5PbZjdAyDWyxkgfFAo-KGVFM3u0PZkhIEXeoUJSfakT8iWotdj5jkAEzaOrwh/w200-h200/All%20good%20beer.webp" width="200" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><b><br /></b></span></span></span><p></p>
<p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">An interesting name for a company that sells some esoteric wines difficult to find elsewhere. Brendan Tracey? Kelley Fox? No problem.</p><p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Their website is cute and they are charming people. Altogether a joy.</p>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Les
Vignerons parisiens</b></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Roig
Boig by Celler La Salada, Catalonia</b></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sucumulla
by Vinas D’Empremta, Catalonia.</b></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Els
Besavia de Bardisots, Oriol Artigas, Cataonia</b></span></span></span></p>
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Therefore, the site should not be chosen too weak. It does not tend to high alcohol content.<br /><br />Spread:<br />Calardis blanc was only approved in Germany in 2020, and is therefore still very young and not widely spread.<br /><br />Special characteristics:<br />The resistance to Peronospora (downy mildew) is very high, but also the resistance to Oidium (powdery mildew) is high. Due to the very loose grape structure, there are almost no Botrytis infestation. Calardis blanc also has good resistance to black rot.<br /><br />The straight growth and the relatively low stinginess also make it very interesting from a viticultural point of view. This also includes the low sensitivity to sunburn.<br /><br />It has been registered in the German variety list since 2020. This means that it may be planted in Germany.<br /><br />Wines:<br />The mostly slightly fruity wines lie somewhere between Burgundy and Riesling.</span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"> </span></p><p><span>Meanwhile, a reminder from our post of March 22nd 2015 of how we came to buy GF 93-22.6/Calardis Blanc in the first place: </span></p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">So bidding Geilweilerhof Auf Wiedersehen, we trundled off to Umstein which is positively heaving with Rebschule, one actually called Krapp.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vt6fABwszms/VQ8ygsHC1gI/AAAAAAAAHi0/Dpy24HEqdQo/s1600/Wofsign.jpg" style="color: #940f04; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vt6fABwszms/VQ8ygsHC1gI/AAAAAAAAHi0/Dpy24HEqdQo/s1600/Wofsign.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4px;" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;">But here was Wolfs Brunnen, Winzer. Weinprobe, Verkauf (Wolf's Spring, Producer, Wine-tasting, Sales)</div><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IDxnjyeUZ0I/VQ85C0us-vI/AAAAAAAAHjE/_aoCZNEJt8o/s1600/WolfMrsnfriend.jpg" style="color: #940f04; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IDxnjyeUZ0I/VQ85C0us-vI/AAAAAAAAHjE/_aoCZNEJt8o/s1600/WolfMrsnfriend.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 0px;" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px; text-align: center;">Frau Wolf, left and colleague preparing vines for planting</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Entering with some trepidation we were asked by Frau Wolf what our visit was about and when we mentioned vines she asked which ones we wanted. We asked her which ones she had. That is a question which has caused consternation before at other Rebschule. Stocktaking at the end of a no doubt busy season must be well nigh impossible. We were actually after Souvignier Gris. Frau Wolf conducted us into the presence of her husband in an inner sanctum. Herr Wolf turned out to be a very jovial character delighted to help.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dig73BQl4qg/VSTQIX20H2I/AAAAAAAAHmg/ie6IrNItbmI/s1600/Brown%2Bbag.jpg" style="color: #940f04; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dig73BQl4qg/VSTQIX20H2I/AAAAAAAAHmg/ie6IrNItbmI/s1600/Brown%2Bbag.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4px;" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />He decided that what we wanted was GF.93-22-6, a crossing of GF.GA-47-42 (Bacchus x Seyval) x Seyve Villard 39-639.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5M7ENMwg0zA/VSTRFByHJpI/AAAAAAAAHmo/8MO5t0b9xe4/s1600/Brown%2Bbag%2Bcloseup.jpg" style="color: #940f04; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5M7ENMwg0zA/VSTRFByHJpI/AAAAAAAAHmo/8MO5t0b9xe4/s1600/Brown%2Bbag%2Bcloseup.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4px;" width="320" /></a></div> <br />It became clear we were not going to leave without 25 Stueck of this variety. Even the obligatory agreement with Geilweilerhof could be sent for our signature. Meanwhile a bundle of vines in a brown plastic bag was loaded onto us.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3V3KqQcugCU/VQ87tX9fOiI/AAAAAAAAHjg/CFD4RQZFcXs/s1600/WolftheWolfs.jpg" style="color: #940f04; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3V3KqQcugCU/VQ87tX9fOiI/AAAAAAAAHjg/CFD4RQZFcXs/s1600/WolftheWolfs.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4px;" width="240" /></a></div><br />We didn't object as we had taken a shine to the Wolfs and reckoned they knew what they were talking about. We also have a<i><span> </span>faiblesse</i><span> </span>for varieties so obscure they don't have a name yet. We might put GF.93-22-6 next to our GM8107-3.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-I9Z8ateJHek/VQ85yYD6cZI/AAAAAAAAHjM/CcpCZdUxghg/s1600/WAromeraf.jpg" style="color: #940f04; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-I9Z8ateJHek/VQ85yYD6cZI/AAAAAAAAHjM/CcpCZdUxghg/s1600/WAromeraf.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4px;" width="240" /></a></div><br /><br />Herr Wolf then conducted us to the tasting room where he urged a sample of something called Aromera on us. It came from a colleague; a Rebschule in Austria.<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Yii7OeGePIk/VQ87MfnKKJI/AAAAAAAAHjY/fXfqd3pKGRg/s1600/Wolftastingroom.jpg" style="color: #940f04; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Yii7OeGePIk/VQ87MfnKKJI/AAAAAAAAHjY/fXfqd3pKGRg/s1600/Wolftastingroom.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 0px;" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px; text-align: center;">the Wolf's gemuetlich tasting room</td></tr></tbody></table><br />He also urged us to return in July when up to 1,000 people descend on his property to taste up to 36 wines he makes in micro-vinification so buyers of his vines may know what to expect.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6XwxYiHWHMs/VQ88_5q6COI/AAAAAAAAHjs/SilPa0hu1TM/s1600/WList.jpg" style="color: #940f04; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6XwxYiHWHMs/VQ88_5q6COI/AAAAAAAAHjs/SilPa0hu1TM/s1600/WList.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4px;" width="480" /></a></div><br /><br />Later we learned that Freiburg had located 25 1 metre long vines of Souvignier Gris for us. How kind everyone is in the world of Rebschule and wine research institutes.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><br /><p><span> </span></p><p><span> <br /></span></p><p><span><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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The tasting was by courtesy of Dipl. Ing. Bettina Lindner.<br /></p><p>Gm 8107-3<br /></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">a deliciously apply (Bettina preferred citrussy) wine from grapes descended from Ehrenbreitsteiner and FR 52-64 (meaning a grape cultivated by the Freiburg Institute in 1952). Ehrenbreitsteiner is itself a crossing of two generations of other crossings. As in any other kind of breeding the hope is that progress may be made over time. Bettina Lindner told us she had sold the GM 8107-3 to a French gentleman looking for varieties to plant in Brasil or some such humid part of the world and this person had decided the variety should have a proper name and chose 'Bettina'. We were pleased to follow his lead, so 'Bettina' it is.</span> <br /></p><p>We bought 25 bare rooted vines and planted them that year so the vines are now 12 years old. They have always been quite vigorous but the grapes have never ripened fully until this year. Suddenly we have huge bunches of beautiful large grapes undisturbed by birds or wasps. No sign of the rather strident taste when these grapes have not ripened properly. </p><p>All these years we have had confidence in Gm 8107-3. Derek Pritchard of Dunkery Vineyard in Devon sells it through his estimable www.winegrowers.info site. Every so often we have googled old 8107 to see if it has finally been given a name. </p><p>Just today we discover that it has indeed been given that honour and what is more, the name is 'Fidelio' also the name of Beethoven's operatic masterpiece. How appropriate! So nostalgically no more Bettina, welcome Fidelio.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmOPylXUDkMdkcM4eGF_ODowDIZ0VlilDSzofHfHr4w0BP4ekTPd4WM_ZMQfWm-cEe3DV2Pk61lEGQdtJxIF69O_WX-dPoZmVdILbk4RK0mj30xmsGblqV3nIFRFGSdyq4lDEUZVwGWdT1_cgbRdxn0r5IjbpYuSvEcDXN1eYT9XpAFehpzNaafsz3ZgWV/s653/Beethoven%20gloomy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="653" data-original-width="500" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmOPylXUDkMdkcM4eGF_ODowDIZ0VlilDSzofHfHr4w0BP4ekTPd4WM_ZMQfWm-cEe3DV2Pk61lEGQdtJxIF69O_WX-dPoZmVdILbk4RK0mj30xmsGblqV3nIFRFGSdyq4lDEUZVwGWdT1_cgbRdxn0r5IjbpYuSvEcDXN1eYT9XpAFehpzNaafsz3ZgWV/w153-h200/Beethoven%20gloomy.jpg" width="153" /></a></div><p>We aim to make a wine this year with the grape 'Fidelio' the old boy would have drunk with pleasure.</p><p><br /></p><p><a class="col-xs-6 col-md-4" href="http://www.julius-kuehn.de/" id="headerlogo1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; 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font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; max-width: 100px; min-height: 1px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; width: 100px; word-spacing: 0px;" target="blank"><img alt="VIVC logo" src="https://www.vivc.de/photos/blau-gruen_150_20px.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 12px; max-height: 100px; max-width: 100px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a></p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 15px;"> </h3><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 15px;"> </h3><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 15px;"> </h3><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 15px;">Passport data</h3><div class="hidden-print" id="divexport" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; list-style-type: none; padding-right: 15px; position: absolute; right: 15px; top: 35px; z-index: 200;"><a class="btn btn-default" href="https://www.vivc.de/index.php?r=passport%2Freportpdf&id=20695&var=view" style="background: rgb(232, 232, 232); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; height: 30px; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 12px 3px 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap; width: 130px;"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-export" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: "Glyphicons Halflings"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 25px; padding-left: 5px; position: relative; top: 1px;"></i><span> </span>PDF<span face="Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" id="excelhidd" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px;"><span> </span>Document</span></a></div><form action="https://www.vivc.de/index.php?r=passport%2Fview&id=20695" class="form-vertical" id="w0" method="post" role="form" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><div class="kv-view-mode" id="w1-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-right: 15px;"><div class="kv-detail-view table-responsive" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; min-height: 0.01%; overflow-x: auto;"><table class="table table-bordered table-striped detail-view" data-krajee-kvdetailview="kvDetailView_4eb2b924" id="w1" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 808.2px; z-index: 10;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><tr class="warning" style="background-color: #f1f7f2; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="background-color: #d1e5d4; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Prime name</th><td style="background-color: #d1e5d4; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">FIDELIO</div></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Color of berry skin</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://www.vivc.de/index.php?SpeciesSearch[b_farbe2]=green&r=species%2Fberrycolor" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">BLANC</a></div></td></tr><tr style="background-color: #f1f7f2; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Variety number VIVC</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">20695</div></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Country or region of origin of the variety</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://www.vivc.de/index.php?SpeciesSearch[landescode22]=GERMANY&r=species%2Fcountry" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">GERMANY</a></div></td></tr><tr style="background-color: #f1f7f2; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Species</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://www.vivc.de/index.php?SpeciesSearch[gattung_id]=1&SpeciesSearch[gattungs_id][]=&SpeciesSearch[gattungs_id][0]=1&r=species%2Findex" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">VITIS VINIFERA LINNÉ SUBSP. SATIVA (DE CANDOLLE) HEGI</a></div></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Pedigree as given by breeder/bibliography</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">EHRENBREITSTEINER X FR 52-64</div></td></tr><tr style="background-color: #f1f7f2; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Pedigree confirmed by markers</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></div><br /></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #a74442; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Full pedigree</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #a74442; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://www.vivc.de/index.php?r=passport/viewtree&id=20695" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a74442; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">YES</a></div></td></tr><tr style="background-color: #f1f7f2; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Prime name of parent 1</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://www.vivc.de/index.php?r=passport%2Fview&id=4725" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">EHRENBREITSTEINER</a></div></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Prime name of parent 2</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://www.vivc.de/index.php?r=passport%2Fview&id=4239" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">FREIBURG 52- 64</a></div></td></tr><tr style="background-color: #f1f7f2; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Parent - offspring relationship</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></div><br /></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Offspring</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></div><br /></td></tr><tr style="background-color: #f1f7f2; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Breeder</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><a class="amodal" href="https://www.vivc.de/index.php?r=passport%2Fview&id=20695#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Becker, Helmut</a></div></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Breeder institute code</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><a class="amodal" href="https://www.vivc.de/index.php?r=passport%2Fview&id=20695#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">DEU454</a></div></td></tr><tr style="background-color: #f1f7f2; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Breeder contact address</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Hochschule Geisenheim University<br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" />Institut für Rebenzüchtung</div></td></tr><tr id="tr1ps2" style="background-color: #f1f7f2; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Year of crossing</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://www.vivc.de/index.php?SpeciesSearch[kreuzungsjahr]=1981&r=species%2Fyearofcrossing" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">1981</a></div></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Year of selection</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></div><br /></td></tr><tr style="background-color: #f1f7f2; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Year of protection</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://www.vivc.de/index.php?SpeciesSearch[sortenschutz]=2021&r=species%2Fyearofcrossing" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">2021</a></div></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Formation of seeds</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://www.vivc.de/index.php?SpeciesSearch[samenausbildung]=complete&r=species%2Fyearofcrossing" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">COMPLETE</a></div></td></tr><tr style="background-color: #f1f7f2; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Sex of flowers</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></div><br /></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Taste</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://www.vivc.de/index.php?SpeciesSearch[geschmack]=none&r=species%2Fyearofcrossing" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">NONE</a></div></td></tr><tr style="background-color: #f1f7f2; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Chlorotype</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></div><br /></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Photos of the cultivar</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></div><br /></td></tr><tr style="background-color: #f1f7f2; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">SSR-marker data</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></div><br /></td></tr><tr class="hidden-print" id="td1ps11" style="background-color: #f1f7f2; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Loci for resistance</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></div><br /></td></tr><tr id="td1ps13" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Degree of resistance</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></div><br /></td></tr><tr style="background-color: #f1f7f2; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Loci of traits</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></div><br /></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Table of accession names</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://www.vivc.de/index.php?AkzessionenSearch[wiews_id]=&AkzessionenSearch[leitname2]=FIDELIO&AkzessionenSearch[kenn_nr2]=20695&sort=wiews_id&r=akzessionen%2Ftableofakzname" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">YES</a></div></td></tr><tr style="background-color: #f1f7f2; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Table of area</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></div><br /></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; min-width: 300px; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;">Registered in the European Catalogue</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #285f32; font-family: Verdana, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="kv-attribute" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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As of this autumn, Alsace will initiate the VIFA procedure (varieties of interest for adaptation purposes) with the National Institute of Origin and Quality (Inao). The Association of Winegrowers of Alsace (Ava) created its VIFA commission at the end of 2022. This selected ten white grape varieties (chenin, floréal, johanniter, petit manseng, opalor, petit courbu, selenor, souvignier gris, vermentino and voltis) and six reds (calabrese/nero d'avola, colliris, malbec/côt, nebbiolo, sirano and syrah) in selecting them on their resistance to diseases, their time of maturity, their ease of management, the acid structure of the wines (but not according to the emblematic appearance of certain varieties in wine-growing areas, which could have consequences: see box).</span></span></p>
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For grape varieties resistant to mildew and powdery mildew, </span></span><em><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">“many winegrowers are struggling to manage rows of vines close to homes. In these situations, they quickly need the solution for experimenting with resistant grape varieties that will allow them to respect the Non-Treatment Zones (ZNT) and produce without losing the appellation” explains Christian Kohser, in charge of the VIFA file at Ava</span></span></em><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> . </span></span><em><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">“This response comes in support of the Alsavine program which aims to select new varieties with polygenic resistances to Riesling and Gewurztraminer typicity. We can also re-study the behavior of clones deemed too acidic and/or too late in the past.”</span></span></em><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">
adds Yvan Engel, president of the Ava technical commission. The acquisition of references in the different types of soil is planned over a period of ten years. In the room, Pierre Gassmann, independent winegrower in Rorschwihr, regretted that the old Alsatian grape varieties like the knipperlé were not considered worthy of being part of the varieties selected. </span></span><em><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">“We had to act quickly”</span></span></em><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> explained Christian Kohser…</span></span></p>
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<h8><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The vintage still has great potential</span></span></h8></p>
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The meeting also approved the filing of a dossier for an innovation evaluation device (DEI) concerning the management of weeds on the cavaillon using permeable biodegradable mulch. A ten-year follow-up is planned. The profession is finally working on the constitution, probably in 2024, of a network of plots whose water profile will be monitored over ten years in order to specify the methods of (possible) irrigation of the vines.</span></span></p>
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Water, precisely, remains a crucial element to realize the great potential of the 2023 vintage on the 15,529 hectares of the Alsatian vineyard. The forecast relates to 991,00 hl against 849,00 hl actually produced in 2022. But to reach this level, it would still take a good thirty millimeters in August, according to several winegrowers present in Colmar. As for the yields authorized in the Alsace appellation, the vineyard generally remains on values between 55 (gewurztraminer), 65, 70 and 75 hl/ha depending on the grape variety. The crémant grapes increase to 80 hl/ha. These different levels are matched with a VCI of 10 hl/ha. The CRINAO meeting on August 22 will decide on the opening dates for the harvest.</span></span></p><div class="row py-5"><div class="col-10"><div class="heebo-14-darkcolor-600" style="border-bottom: 1px solid black;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Note: Inao (</span></span></b></span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Institut National de l'Origine et de la Qualite)</span></span><b><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> is the French institute which controls the delineation of appellations and what may be planted in them. It is also active since 1970 for the development of new and resistant varieties, active since 1970. These include Floreal and Voltis (white) and Artaban and Vidoc (red). They also produce recommended clones of many 'classic' varieties.</span></b></span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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de l’avancée de la saison du fait de la lignification de ses vaisseaux. <em>« Un phénomène jamais observé sur d’autres espèces »</em>.' (Delzon).<br /><br />(the vine is increasingly resistant to embolism (gas bubble preventing hydration) as the season progresses due to the lignification of its vessels. “A phenomenon never observed on other species”).<br /></p><p>Lignification;</p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">'Lignification is the technical name for a stem becoming woody—brown, dry, and hard as opposed to green, sappy, and pliable.'</span></p><p>Fred Swan, GuildSom 28.6.17</p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fred adds </span> </p><p>'Despite thousands of years of winemaking history, we’re still refining
our understanding of the myriad factors leading any given wine to taste
and feel as it does. Arguably, no other consumer product has such
variety or involves so many minute, often inscrutable, factors. A wine’s
personality is influenced by geology, microbiology, chemistry, plant
and human physiology, agronomy, entomology, geography, weather, and
more.'</p><p>Something to think about on cold winter evenings when you sip your vino da meditazione..... <br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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Rino Sgarbossa</div><div><b>Best Sparkling Wine:</b> Mariotti Abbatia (Fortana)</div><div><b>Best White:</b> Telti-Kuruk Grande reserve, Shabo Wine Company, Odesa Province, Ukraine<br /><b>Best Red:</b> Conti Capponi, Villa Calcinaia Mammolo<br /><b>Best English White:</b> Ashdown Chasselas<br /><b>Best English Red:</b> Halfpenny Green, Penny Red Pinot Noir/Rondo/Regent<br /><b>Best Show/Wine Festival:</b> The Vineyard and Winery Show<br /><b>Biggest Surprise:</b> Bardolino Novello<br /><b>Best Vine Nursery/Nurseries:</b> Pepinieres Guillaume and Rebschule Freytag<br /><b>Best PIWI discovery: Rinot<br />Best New Winemerchant:</b> Alzbeta Novotna, Wines of Bohemia<br /><b>Best Winemerchant:</b> Hedonism<br /><b>Best restaurant Winelist:</b> Brawn<br /><b>Predictions for 2023:</b> Sparkling Tea<br /><b>Worst Duty Free shop:</b> All<br /><b>Best wine supplies shop:</b> G.M. Luico Enologia, Genova<br /><b>Special Award for the re-estalishment of endangered grape variety/Varieties: </b>Joszef Szentesi<br /><b>Book:</b> Which Winegrape Varieties are grown where?: Kym Anderson and Signe Nelgen<br /><b>Indispensible Website 2022:</b> Wein.Plus<br /><b>Various accolades and thanks to...</b><p><b> </b></p><p><b>Wine Personality of the year </b></p><p><u>Fratello Rino Sgarbossa of the Frati Francescani Minori di</u><u> San Francesco della Vigna, Venice.</u><b><br /></b></p><p><b> </b><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZQsviayocgrFl3nJtSLtVOt9DAUoWYnqpCG0k3ORWVjixouUtd8fKccSVJ8EgJ7eIsNaX01Y_DekJnAFwwCVCcp2OOpM5kOavQUBunRClfYJjlTTofVsuMRAA9J1eSfgfbFcoMoo6iNzlO-0933LxyK3Z5-PYwsULsO-vtCK-36h5A5zW03I440InYQ/s1280/Fr.%20Rino.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZQsviayocgrFl3nJtSLtVOt9DAUoWYnqpCG0k3ORWVjixouUtd8fKccSVJ8EgJ7eIsNaX01Y_DekJnAFwwCVCcp2OOpM5kOavQUBunRClfYJjlTTofVsuMRAA9J1eSfgfbFcoMoo6iNzlO-0933LxyK3Z5-PYwsULsO-vtCK-36h5A5zW03I440InYQ/w480-h640/Fr.%20Rino.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p>Fra. Rino Sgarbossa is our Wine Personality of the year. This award may be surprising. </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvft8dX5l6Zo-SIEGKNuIk8c6IQY4Jzun6mAugl9wqch4UgBwBoMBGS_aJC_xnc7OnwDkC2NBxB5Zspmd40V0dXUxR7jPN5I9y5kWWJ-0bboxEPBPxB6zD5eV0UW0vmEB6uZTD80dwbytKbqizKChLW9GkfUQDqk4_p_VW_pGBKHIpG3trEyHPVpmP0w/s700/Fra%20Rino%20S.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="700" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvft8dX5l6Zo-SIEGKNuIk8c6IQY4Jzun6mAugl9wqch4UgBwBoMBGS_aJC_xnc7OnwDkC2NBxB5Zspmd40V0dXUxR7jPN5I9y5kWWJ-0bboxEPBPxB6zD5eV0UW0vmEB6uZTD80dwbytKbqizKChLW9GkfUQDqk4_p_VW_pGBKHIpG3trEyHPVpmP0w/s320/Fra%20Rino%20S.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>The most surprised would be Fra. Rino himself because his main job at San Francesco della Vigna in Venice is Director of the Biblioteca San Francesco della Vigna, perhaps the oldest and largest in Venice with over 200,000 books dating back to the 14th century. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit5MoOp4Rwx6NLWlXP3VNolMSqG_0jy2NDIKpY2uJDBtSmVtQy7R6y2Ho3rqhso-z-FrIGENAiA5mjipkR2PRbqxY4BdNbwk_nZCy-8RSXgvgu_cY-hDsjzF8JzKvkVwookDEzYC-AsVWa0eT_R3TwpJ6bbyF9gv3q7cw-NdFDoawq52U4Y7OOQKw5_w/s2052/Fr%20Rino%20grapes2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1533" data-original-width="2052" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit5MoOp4Rwx6NLWlXP3VNolMSqG_0jy2NDIKpY2uJDBtSmVtQy7R6y2Ho3rqhso-z-FrIGENAiA5mjipkR2PRbqxY4BdNbwk_nZCy-8RSXgvgu_cY-hDsjzF8JzKvkVwookDEzYC-AsVWa0eT_R3TwpJ6bbyF9gv3q7cw-NdFDoawq52U4Y7OOQKw5_w/s320/Fr%20Rino%20grapes2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD2ddWSpnbAEr4SN5WsdnHsu-6RnjptlhpRI2FWTQgQc18GdJbee11ZkKaQds8Cqxs7Ll8seVrrSjGWnSEGUQIXRtawu5IoDWo2-v2KAlM_xjk0VWNkTYvU5XkUrFoEKsG3u73EYR3EYafRTfHpAt5e5Vwevk4A6u5uPo9x4tIvUlSo4R_1UonX83a0w/s2000/Fra%20R%20with%20grapes.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD2ddWSpnbAEr4SN5WsdnHsu-6RnjptlhpRI2FWTQgQc18GdJbee11ZkKaQds8Cqxs7Ll8seVrrSjGWnSEGUQIXRtawu5IoDWo2-v2KAlM_xjk0VWNkTYvU5XkUrFoEKsG3u73EYR3EYafRTfHpAt5e5Vwevk4A6u5uPo9x4tIvUlSo4R_1UonX83a0w/s320/Fra%20R%20with%20grapes.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>Fra. Rino took us on a tour of the vineyard and library together with a group of Dutch historians. He protested that the vineyard was managed by others who had re-planted mostly with Glera and would be selling the wine when it was ready and that he disn't know much else.</p><p>In fact we think he was following Saint Francis's rule;</p><p><i>'I frati siano pacifici e modesti, mansueti e umili' (</i><span style="font-size: small; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span class="Y2IQFc" lang="en">Let the friars be peaceful and modest, meek and humble')</span></i></span></p><p><i> </i>because he knew a great deal about the vineyard's history, the effects of the soil flooding with briney water at aqua alta, the grafting and irrigation that had taken place and so forth. For the record the plantings had previously included Raboso, Marzemino, Malvasia and Verduzzo. This made sense because until recent incursions of intermnational varieties and Pinot Grigio, Raboso and Verduzzo had been the Venetians preferred wine grapes. Even earlier, Teroldego and Refosco had been mentioned.<br /></p><p>In general, winegrowers andthe people around wine have in our experience and until now been lovely people. Fra. Rino is as kind and dear of this group of people and so may serve as an exemplar. It is for this that we would like to award him Wine Personality of the year, not that he would accept, we are sure. <br /></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Best Sparkling wine</b></p><p><u>Mariotti Abbatia Fortana</u></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKbCLnFPckWdT3Wq1EQ1Fd6VQ5JoJJOCNoIQ-iSxdNQZ6gfSNEKcgVUgF1_jF3_AOXeUoFRFWKpuecNR2-9xBuPRH314wIq7WL0ItrjOf3BjEspithenSCjKE4hmK2E902rDfxKfur0ZBCiom_WtxeRHWnitc5zaEQqlbGbOmig68kvEEaDZMpB3GQug/s4032/Moretti%20Abbatiaf.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKbCLnFPckWdT3Wq1EQ1Fd6VQ5JoJJOCNoIQ-iSxdNQZ6gfSNEKcgVUgF1_jF3_AOXeUoFRFWKpuecNR2-9xBuPRH314wIq7WL0ItrjOf3BjEspithenSCjKE4hmK2E902rDfxKfur0ZBCiom_WtxeRHWnitc5zaEQqlbGbOmig68kvEEaDZMpB3GQug/s320/Moretti%20Abbatiaf.HEIC" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggO67Hf5bzLMe_mZm_DVjB3PFGoTw9QixY2VYuNSK4Q7yV-oCelY6S2tn8tzaAdojppGYeWtzjPgJajsos6CABkBiSa5Ng-0s_JvwCf1Q7gF05iqsh_qwWntCvEFCsJL_RUlcfCV_C0AS3dk8tro1gkbqxunbaTZ8xW281PsKKBorIaP13DW1EGi-JPg/s4032/Mariotti%20Abbatiab.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggO67Hf5bzLMe_mZm_DVjB3PFGoTw9QixY2VYuNSK4Q7yV-oCelY6S2tn8tzaAdojppGYeWtzjPgJajsos6CABkBiSa5Ng-0s_JvwCf1Q7gF05iqsh_qwWntCvEFCsJL_RUlcfCV_C0AS3dk8tro1gkbqxunbaTZ8xW281PsKKBorIaP13DW1EGi-JPg/s320/Mariotti%20Abbatiab.HEIC" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>As we have reported in this Blog;</div><div> </div><div>The good news: This is an amazing tasty, aromatic discovery. <div><br /></div><div>The bad news: In short supply. Very difficult to get hold of but worth the effort.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fortana
is a red grape from Emilia Romagna producing in our experience
unexceptional red wine but when 'vinificato in bianco' as here is
fantastic. <br /></div><p></p><p><b>Best White</b></p><p><u>Telti-Kuruk Grande Reserve, Shabo Wine Company, Odesa Povince, Ukraine. </u><b><br /></b></p><p>Our Slotovino Awards 2022 are here. We didn't post between March and November but that didn't mean we paused our researches. We were busy emerging from the pandemic so posting took place all at once when we had time. In fact our 26 posts for this year are exactly double those of 2021.</p><p>In the wider world the news has been of the terrible war in Ukraine but before we are accused of mounting our own special operation in favour of Ukranian wine, let us deny any bias when we award a Ukranian grape, Telti-Kuruk the discovery of the year.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjibgfqpG0Ae2rXMLI7EwL2ptMp4iaINrlnHMltAw2bcTCXmj7FRqGL2ANg3KnuA1W57S4-nEi8A6FR5OC5hTMWNytsc0TGSR4jtjEc02bQ14y8TSa4flx2HqybP_6KaG_YvnBs1cGJP8xUsz-_pihi21hb4cnheRu9TjS84qBOrvqGMKMao_i7uF_x3A/s1280/SA%20Telti=Kurukf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjibgfqpG0Ae2rXMLI7EwL2ptMp4iaINrlnHMltAw2bcTCXmj7FRqGL2ANg3KnuA1W57S4-nEi8A6FR5OC5hTMWNytsc0TGSR4jtjEc02bQ14y8TSa4flx2HqybP_6KaG_YvnBs1cGJP8xUsz-_pihi21hb4cnheRu9TjS84qBOrvqGMKMao_i7uF_x3A/w300-h400/SA%20Telti=Kurukf.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjCSWDep5ycs8AVm43FgyzBwqCQcND37LnqD_rBczTbxzpXYEVjkgd9YUJJ0HZtSHokcRf_mM7Fx1XFX-wzuaXg8n1m9U7QyrJyG2XoNDsdA0aNScYcuFKUmpBJrPFkGs0hBIGSkHVodM7oBfZfLWG7_jZs25jQk_2ksmKFpnIw3GrbIdZ4vNLn1PKIg/s1280/SA%20Telti-Kurukb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjCSWDep5ycs8AVm43FgyzBwqCQcND37LnqD_rBczTbxzpXYEVjkgd9YUJJ0HZtSHokcRf_mM7Fx1XFX-wzuaXg8n1m9U7QyrJyG2XoNDsdA0aNScYcuFKUmpBJrPFkGs0hBIGSkHVodM7oBfZfLWG7_jZs25jQk_2ksmKFpnIw3GrbIdZ4vNLn1PKIg/w300-h400/SA%20Telti-Kurukb.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p>In general, discoveries of 2022 have been more numerous in white wines as you will see. Telti-Kuruk came as a bolt from the blue. It is a fabulous variety. we set about trying to import a case but unsurprisingly there were difficulties. At present no shipping companies are operating from Ukraine. However, goods are getting through. After contacting a winemerchant in Kiiv and Drinks+, the Ukrainian wine organisation we finally made contact with the maker of this particular bottle, Shabo. </p><p>Shabo has managed to send wine by the pallet to the UK which is an astounding and heartwarming achievement. Pallets go via Poland and cost E.2,400 a time.They might be able to add a case for us in their next shipment. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj02cav6hF_yYvKm--7gtwO59QXeJqMEgQz5B4vGzLg1FeZGJscr3h32DKBu6WSS3t-b17-pydoHCThmLd4VumM78NghZMAaZixbXkTAOGsMsXXtpTA32EYBlle1AFHR5LOQrb_572ttyWMwt-KldfEBtgY5ambj7dMqNWtCSLOB-pr8frr-PDm-V-XWw/s1280/SA%20Wines%20of%20Ukraine%20stand.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj02cav6hF_yYvKm--7gtwO59QXeJqMEgQz5B4vGzLg1FeZGJscr3h32DKBu6WSS3t-b17-pydoHCThmLd4VumM78NghZMAaZixbXkTAOGsMsXXtpTA32EYBlle1AFHR5LOQrb_572ttyWMwt-KldfEBtgY5ambj7dMqNWtCSLOB-pr8frr-PDm-V-XWw/s320/SA%20Wines%20of%20Ukraine%20stand.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>After some headscratching we had an inspiration and checked with Hedonism whether they had any wines from this grape and indeed they had. Hedonism was founded in 2012 by Evgeny Chichvarkin who owns it still. He lives inLondon and is a critic of Vladimir Putin. Hedonism no longer sells wine from Russia but offer Ukranian wines instead.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwECuaJm4Sce9fqDsXVYDmULAjDMVWKREMgtUSoD9bzRuFX6m9DFCdrDP3uj7R4Q3XfJCkP5MFBQI844ej6a9thWhLlmIsIQ1KLkqHWKqAkhhNOg-216pQRFVvzMPt3WHuMir_tWdHQG5koY9CIiQTnQ-7dzNhJ4RYF94ekBDR782mDvXXThEoBRpZ_g/s1280/SA%20TKf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwECuaJm4Sce9fqDsXVYDmULAjDMVWKREMgtUSoD9bzRuFX6m9DFCdrDP3uj7R4Q3XfJCkP5MFBQI844ej6a9thWhLlmIsIQ1KLkqHWKqAkhhNOg-216pQRFVvzMPt3WHuMir_tWdHQG5koY9CIiQTnQ-7dzNhJ4RYF94ekBDR782mDvXXThEoBRpZ_g/s320/SA%20TKf.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVEoW-xrijczAlQG6CsHWSUDvf5WTcxOCE5dT1yRNe3Rxuqke9Ceast8Vxk7tvAm0PXxMxsAZBrKQ-SSnvBHcPmbdO5buXRHj-vQQH8m2hTdtpqad0Wu6tnzE8xfWNI5UuqXV7dyCqdYIhDzJJDvMOO3YahHnV0L03nQCJ6zAemEnDEzhkQuNl1DLNNw/s1280/SA%20TKb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVEoW-xrijczAlQG6CsHWSUDvf5WTcxOCE5dT1yRNe3Rxuqke9Ceast8Vxk7tvAm0PXxMxsAZBrKQ-SSnvBHcPmbdO5buXRHj-vQQH8m2hTdtpqad0Wu6tnzE8xfWNI5UuqXV7dyCqdYIhDzJJDvMOO3YahHnV0L03nQCJ6zAemEnDEzhkQuNl1DLNNw/s320/SA%20TKb.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p>Beykush Winery is the maker of Hedonism's Telti-Kuruk. Beykush was founded in 2010 and is situated near Odesa. </p><p>We thought we had seen an entry on Telti-Kuruk (aka Telti-Kyryk) in 'Wine Grapes' but that must have been wishful thinking.</p><p>We have been turning increasingly to 'Wein Plus' recently. They really are a terrific source of information. On Telti-Kuruk they have the following entry;</p><p><i>'The white grape variety originates from Armenia. Synonyms are Telti Kourouk, Telti Kuruk, Tilki Kuyrugu and Tilky Rairuk. The parentage is unknown. The vine is used as a wine grape and table grape. It is cultivated in the Ukraine. In 2010, 246 hectares were still reported, but in 2016 no more stock was reported (Kym Anderson).'</i></p><p>Is it possible the 246 ha of 2010 have been dug up? We hope not.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Best red </b></p><p><u>Conti Capponi Villa Calcinaia Mammolo.</u></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCLbu4FnIcDZzupAyjYrR8Q7e9WZiy-RUuHSyRTOpYnygN3vrRpznK_HXdpzKgTv6XIkUhJjV8K9Zzu0lI5Z-qTVgHWfzuPP2x2dGqAAx_XkWivmhZiw5vg3yh-HDCrNi0FUDsJTkEa1jll-iPWQeRR1NZLXLUByJ1qwcysG8nBkOXhFz2E_q2Rp_QWQ/s1280/Calcinaia%20Mammolof.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCLbu4FnIcDZzupAyjYrR8Q7e9WZiy-RUuHSyRTOpYnygN3vrRpznK_HXdpzKgTv6XIkUhJjV8K9Zzu0lI5Z-qTVgHWfzuPP2x2dGqAAx_XkWivmhZiw5vg3yh-HDCrNi0FUDsJTkEa1jll-iPWQeRR1NZLXLUByJ1qwcysG8nBkOXhFz2E_q2Rp_QWQ/w225-h400/Calcinaia%20Mammolof.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjccClkKFc6C4leU0Cv8D1AZmjdMNssNJiSbRZ7cP2oKAohcJhwslbBAkH_K7jMbre9W8ljOnjYt-iqQAnfPnBnep5HhU_hHjF0lYcHFhHnNbnow0nnuZnNF08dCFn9VX0xsn2DMPoX3au6w-eL_MO6fcoaVGXJbt0WqwInp-qpzxeyn4-u3znHSziaJg/s1280/Calcinaia%20Mammolob.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjccClkKFc6C4leU0Cv8D1AZmjdMNssNJiSbRZ7cP2oKAohcJhwslbBAkH_K7jMbre9W8ljOnjYt-iqQAnfPnBnep5HhU_hHjF0lYcHFhHnNbnow0nnuZnNF08dCFn9VX0xsn2DMPoX3au6w-eL_MO6fcoaVGXJbt0WqwInp-qpzxeyn4-u3znHSziaJg/w225-h400/Calcinaia%20Mammolob.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>We first bought this in 2020, together with Villa Calcinaia's Sanforte and Occhiorosso. We presented these last two at the Athenaeum tasting last November listing them as follows;</p><p class="Textbody" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Villa Calcinaia Occhiorosso. Rosso dei Colli della Toscana Centrale I.G.T. Italy. 2018. 13.5%</b></p><p class="Textbody" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">“Roberto...Bandinelli discovered the variety while talking one day to Nunziata Grassi, an 85 year old who took him around her vineyards and showed him Occhiorosso… The minute Bandinelli showed me what to look for in an Occhiorosso grapevine I was immediately able to recognise it without fail in any other vineyard I visited that day with him.”</p><p class="Textbody" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ian D’Agata, Native Wine Grapes of Italy.</span></p><p class="Textbody" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Purple Pages gave this 16.5 and mentioned its 'charming personality,'</span></p><p class="Textbody" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="Textbody" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Villa Calcinaia, Sanforte. Rosso dei Colli della Toscana Centrale I.G.T. Italy. 2018. 13.5%</b></p><p class="Textbody" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Sanforte is listed separately from Sangiovese in Ian D’Agata’s authoritative ‘Native Wine Grapes of Italy. He tells us that he name is a contraction of Sangiovese Forte but everything about the variety differs from Sangiovese; it is more fertile, produces more bunches, ripens earlier, piles up sugar in its berries more notably and makes a more massive wine, yet one that retains elegance. Villa Calcinaia is the only winery making a monovarietal from this grape. <br /></p><p>Jancis Robinson gave this a score of 17 and found it 'really interesting,' <br /></p><p>To be truly honest* these were nice wines but to our taste not as distinctive as we had hoped they would be\<br /></p><p>The Mammolo on the other hand was truly and honestly individual. The Athenaeum tasting had been for varieties made by one producer only so we were never going to include our Mammolo in that category, hence its earlier consumption. </p><p>Mammolo turns out to be the same as Sciaccarello which is strange because our previous experience of Schiaccarello had been quite different. This may be because according to D'Agata, Corsican Sciaccarello or Sciaccarellu is usually blended with 30% Cabernet Sauvignon.</p><p>*<i>The expression 'Truly honest' was first heard from an American lad at Riomaggiore in the Cinque Terre this year and thinking of the Trump years in America, it seemed that merely 'honest' might now denote something that could be f;exible in meaning and that if you want to be honest you now have to qualify the term with the adj. 'truly.' The context of the lad's employment of the term was 'If I'm truly honest I don't want to climb up all those stairs.'</i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv3nyAvWRE1rfsapRlCqG5EqOEO4kjM0atQ3Fr4TN2A3DchUqxiq84_7yfR4KFVw8yUXLBqqd1jA4qaAYM4t-gFMCD2y-vSLhWp7K-dbvI2nHvng9WwXM5oDr86wRcxUCZEdEOML2vJx886S8n9G4czzhESZHz3D1-I3vNkGlk8P4C3O9deGiAYKo2wQ/s320/Car%20in%20ditch1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv3nyAvWRE1rfsapRlCqG5EqOEO4kjM0atQ3Fr4TN2A3DchUqxiq84_7yfR4KFVw8yUXLBqqd1jA4qaAYM4t-gFMCD2y-vSLhWp7K-dbvI2nHvng9WwXM5oDr86wRcxUCZEdEOML2vJx886S8n9G4czzhESZHz3D1-I3vNkGlk8P4C3O9deGiAYKo2wQ/s1600/Car%20in%20ditch1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrFwLLdgsQcPQoLXV2Ti41D49iifpM6_GKCOuYERqQK6xUBWtPTKikKUs590t83jCVBwvOMjbYKS9gGNIjp3yl2NOXi8GICfLxvp-6YtsIPbq4Rc6Dc4-h627A7WZq6bFh3mX5pl_rdXfeTMjgNtQRSV5Gr6tHo2rYTdxXEMo9UwHrTiz_HS-joET1qg/s320/Car%20in%20ditch2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrFwLLdgsQcPQoLXV2Ti41D49iifpM6_GKCOuYERqQK6xUBWtPTKikKUs590t83jCVBwvOMjbYKS9gGNIjp3yl2NOXi8GICfLxvp-6YtsIPbq4Rc6Dc4-h627A7WZq6bFh3mX5pl_rdXfeTMjgNtQRSV5Gr6tHo2rYTdxXEMo9UwHrTiz_HS-joET1qg/s1600/Car%20in%20ditch2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><u>Footnote</u><i><br /></i><p></p><p class="Textbody" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Attempting to buy a couple of bottles of Villa Calcimaia's Mammolo last summer we slid off a dirt track, landed with two wheels in a ditch and had to be pulled out. That provided the entertainment for the rest of the afternoon but not the bottles we wanted, not the visit to the winery we had planned. We imported 6 bottles subsequently and opened one of them with our Xmas turkey. All well that ended well.<br /></p><p class="Textbody" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="Textbody" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></p><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Best English White</b></span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><u><span style="font-family: times;">Ashdown Chasselas</span></u></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><u><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></u></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><u><span style="font-family: times;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2yRBr3JOjD8S3Iz3OyaT3AKsPTkMo1fBFvAo6ZW89u_nBBpnUsVduZXd9pXinpXgFxnkvHRgPg9tdXKl7nYOovIdRrn9MykcM1U6u_tIoG1CQG_59K1oIx3ell5FDPVGOtRcdLg3erPf691_RuirkqAmiPFpKP0yw5p3FyUJBJ-IN7_3_rctVU_gw_g/s1280/Ashdownf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2yRBr3JOjD8S3Iz3OyaT3AKsPTkMo1fBFvAo6ZW89u_nBBpnUsVduZXd9pXinpXgFxnkvHRgPg9tdXKl7nYOovIdRrn9MykcM1U6u_tIoG1CQG_59K1oIx3ell5FDPVGOtRcdLg3erPf691_RuirkqAmiPFpKP0yw5p3FyUJBJ-IN7_3_rctVU_gw_g/w300-h400/Ashdownf.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYxg4qSwMUctTdJRG7FuqU5Aj0WM3seDhrNeQFIqjkH-L1Qhm1D9Uk1ehS7udCL9enfET0sm8HGPirkSOSS6A8pR54N9kia_i2U0aEKcwZA6EnEkY3Ma6ianfcNR1ThtYgQiR9OLIRRt_rULKdB0wSHdabrnbzVp92j7LOyfxMsaKmqtyURU_J7UO_Ww/s1280/Ashdowns.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYxg4qSwMUctTdJRG7FuqU5Aj0WM3seDhrNeQFIqjkH-L1Qhm1D9Uk1ehS7udCL9enfET0sm8HGPirkSOSS6A8pR54N9kia_i2U0aEKcwZA6EnEkY3Ma6ianfcNR1ThtYgQiR9OLIRRt_rULKdB0wSHdabrnbzVp92j7LOyfxMsaKmqtyURU_J7UO_Ww/w300-h400/Ashdowns.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /></span></u></pre>Shortly after making this award, Jancis Robinson wrote a glowing tribute to Chasselas in 'Purple Pages.' There was even the suggestion from Michel Chapoutier that Chasselas planted in the Scilly Isles might be an idea. On the strength of Ashdown's Chasselas (Sussex), this could be a good one. <br /><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><br /></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Best English Red</b></span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><u><span style="font-family: times;">Halfpenny Green Penny Red Pinot Noir.Rondo/Regent</span></u></pre><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMZ_ze7eL9QskeNnyqedNMZ97qCGmDgryJotWfIOT_uUgmqcXwTZ_PqG7QqGfPPAva8HC2yW19VyArjbbtODYUCndjSZ0qycht0CKoHR-2Vl2nODMA3GKZJ3DkJMfQeQADksLZcjawpmHG86xIbag52IWqcFMfYc9tHfS6QndYPq40FrSzH80XSAtEhg/s1280/Halfpenntf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMZ_ze7eL9QskeNnyqedNMZ97qCGmDgryJotWfIOT_uUgmqcXwTZ_PqG7QqGfPPAva8HC2yW19VyArjbbtODYUCndjSZ0qycht0CKoHR-2Vl2nODMA3GKZJ3DkJMfQeQADksLZcjawpmHG86xIbag52IWqcFMfYc9tHfS6QndYPq40FrSzH80XSAtEhg/w300-h400/Halfpenntf.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTsUsBZ-3k_soG0Bgy-j9X7gUAlCy9lDL_LAcbSVGjvhfJRfT_2SAivK1u6LJZagJimOKyP8KyVdqtxJqNnxgxUGogU8vTcx1BxeFezgSH3xOV95MR6xOdnbQ2bpF8SohixM84B1pLvmBxd1TT1tECJSnVmVvN_j3vW8ONt2_Yb0n0g0HD9pXtl5dV3A/s1280/Halfpennyb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTsUsBZ-3k_soG0Bgy-j9X7gUAlCy9lDL_LAcbSVGjvhfJRfT_2SAivK1u6LJZagJimOKyP8KyVdqtxJqNnxgxUGogU8vTcx1BxeFezgSH3xOV95MR6xOdnbQ2bpF8SohixM84B1pLvmBxd1TT1tECJSnVmVvN_j3vW8ONt2_Yb0n0g0HD9pXtl5dV3A/w300-h400/Halfpennyb.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Again, if we are truly honest, we haven't tasted many English or Welsh reds this year and there were <br />fewer reds than whites at the Vineyard and Winery Show. Halfpenny Green was one of several wineries <br />we had never heard of but which are serious producers even if their wines are available only from the cellar door and a limited number of merchants.</p><p>This blend of Pinot Noir, Rondo and Regent seems to be a winner. We enjoyed the wine which is not something one can say about some of the reds to be had in this country.<br /></p><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Best Show/Wine Festival</b></span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><u><span style="font-family: times;">The Vineyard and Winery Show</span></u></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEIKnu4ytWJG_lTsBTdYdBZNy_qZVcfwXCYrp78b9nvr2bhD7vd0etL3wc0SRGHKYtTXh4kzEZNPZqr-94N7UWXJ_-RTdLYlQSL3-d8T-wOhS803AXELuq8Zdm5p3pFfXBwaHcPHjPb11_lo9gGoj5bn7y8X3AqpnoWUutv4KD7wqxp83NB8hcZzgqug/s1280/V%20cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEIKnu4ytWJG_lTsBTdYdBZNy_qZVcfwXCYrp78b9nvr2bhD7vd0etL3wc0SRGHKYtTXh4kzEZNPZqr-94N7UWXJ_-RTdLYlQSL3-d8T-wOhS803AXELuq8Zdm5p3pFfXBwaHcPHjPb11_lo9gGoj5bn7y8X3AqpnoWUutv4KD7wqxp83NB8hcZzgqug/w400-h300/V%20cover.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Biggest Surprise</b></span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><u><span style="font-family: times;">Bardolino Novello</span></u></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><u><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></u></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><u><span style="font-family: times;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbUp7Sl7yDRQpZw5B250KnEjOtAnAaJTsX7w5sFUOuWJykZIc3Zr6dJ_mcPV3m64SqxvgGOAo8-FQ4eYS4A50i2qEk_hW1UUA1mZ7YkHKxjk1MjfOIv3ndGaeUCNZYH_VBNsZogGKjZwcDnkT8AYzTCgF5auEg2w7BATHt-ZlMFsNis8IliEzkoZiylg/s320/Bard%20Novf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbUp7Sl7yDRQpZw5B250KnEjOtAnAaJTsX7w5sFUOuWJykZIc3Zr6dJ_mcPV3m64SqxvgGOAo8-FQ4eYS4A50i2qEk_hW1UUA1mZ7YkHKxjk1MjfOIv3ndGaeUCNZYH_VBNsZogGKjZwcDnkT8AYzTCgF5auEg2w7BATHt-ZlMFsNis8IliEzkoZiylg/w400-h300/Bard%20Novf.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglIKUUEBkNCZ27bnFK0pmD0k7SB6N_RT502JM4mYPxCIKTXNIVB0dH8K8ODl2y04CFe7yj_ikJRLRNoCfTlhekdttL3dkR3lkFPrcxB-sKEgNu7r67Aov6bX8YYz76Z2Z0pUUEsx-yjLMlXcx7nfNpPO6X5GmQT2z0rqAsR3fRIu1gdr7Z0KJ1b_ZBig/s320/Bard%20Novb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglIKUUEBkNCZ27bnFK0pmD0k7SB6N_RT502JM4mYPxCIKTXNIVB0dH8K8ODl2y04CFe7yj_ikJRLRNoCfTlhekdttL3dkR3lkFPrcxB-sKEgNu7r67Aov6bX8YYz76Z2Z0pUUEsx-yjLMlXcx7nfNpPO6X5GmQT2z0rqAsR3fRIu1gdr7Z0KJ1b_ZBig/w400-h300/Bard%20Novb.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></span></u></pre><p>We have gone into the 'problem' of Bardolino Novello before. It's always intriguing when something<br /> is so comprehensively reviled by all and sundry. So attempts actually to taste this rarity became a bit of an obsession. We love Bardolino for its charm and unpretentiosness (viz. Valpolicella) and we like nouveau wines having made some ourselves.<br /></p><p>While still trying to work out how to get our hands on a bottle of Bardolino Novello an amazing coincidence occurred as happens from time to time. Tam Currin of Purple Pages suddenly discovered this wine and wrote a glowing appreciation of several bottles she had been tasting thanks to the Consorzio di Bardolino Novello.</p><p>Writing to the Consorzio to ask where we could buy these wines (Winesracher had not been very helpful), they replied by sending us three bottles as a gift. One of these in particular was memorable and we recommend any naysayer to try it before dismissing Bardolino Novello.<br /><br /><br /></p><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Best Vine Nursery</b></span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><u><span style="font-family: times;">Pepinieres Guillaume and Rebschule Freytag, joint winners</span></u></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><u><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></u></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><u><span style="font-family: times;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqiyoLeUf9dON-pYgKlG-kriuyESFxZpUjKg2-N4BxNZnZYZY16175zFGSn8h06qj_pNr0J8s5LdMmtkJbU6SD_1SVApsOdMsHN6wUuofBVXhZ4D3h5HZQeJ16DF96tldfAqzxdelj7NNo_eMZyz5Z4zqxl2PTbizc0Owv62kRv0b01N3yJ_CqRYFqUA/s1280/V%20Guillaume%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqiyoLeUf9dON-pYgKlG-kriuyESFxZpUjKg2-N4BxNZnZYZY16175zFGSn8h06qj_pNr0J8s5LdMmtkJbU6SD_1SVApsOdMsHN6wUuofBVXhZ4D3h5HZQeJ16DF96tldfAqzxdelj7NNo_eMZyz5Z4zqxl2PTbizc0Owv62kRv0b01N3yJ_CqRYFqUA/w300-h400/V%20Guillaume%202.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /> </span></u></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><u><span style="font-family: times;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgREp9qMAG3MWUd01I3aULt54ubItXKkfU35vXr2_wKTNWXWjoeb1hf7k84ecjNbFOYOLeEqF4QhN-WCSqji-T8_Epf0podvzAPO1AaB8Cui6KzVr8IP6fieq--HZ9xStndkfFxMaqMZSk4raBfFS_i60jdhwpRUbGftZ-_K6NBTto4o3u6hjdgRFiApw/s1280/V%20Sam.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgREp9qMAG3MWUd01I3aULt54ubItXKkfU35vXr2_wKTNWXWjoeb1hf7k84ecjNbFOYOLeEqF4QhN-WCSqji-T8_Epf0podvzAPO1AaB8Cui6KzVr8IP6fieq--HZ9xStndkfFxMaqMZSk4raBfFS_i60jdhwpRUbGftZ-_K6NBTto4o3u6hjdgRFiApw/w400-h300/V%20Sam.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> </span></u></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">Vine nurseries are amazing undertakings. The mind boggles at what has to be done to produce<br />the bare-rooted vines ready for planting. Both Pepinieres Guillaume ad Rebschule Freytag <br />produce a plethora of varieties. Freytag concentrates more on the PIWI varieties and <br />Guillaume on the French heritage ones although both have plenty of others on offer. <br />We also marvel at how cheaply they manage to sell their plants. Consider that for 2 Euros or<br />thereabouts you can have a plant that will last for decades and produce many bottles of wine.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">PS. This award doesn't diminish our admiration for the Vivai Cooperativo di Rauscedo (VCR), the world's biggest vine nursery. We chose Feytag and Guillaume because they came to the Vineyard and Winery Show in Kent this year.<br /></div><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: times;">.</span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Best PIWI discovery</b></span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><u><span style="font-family: times;">Rinot</span></u></pre><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisgcn0C7ty3WswY81f6Tt2ARt-5KFp5ESluBtVFYe09Q34QuXDmc8W4w0llGgx8kcXFkVFUdhu836GKFQeslhjZMWPDn9KmKCmQxNS6mM-YaWoo2l75Su3wzMlLqICSgJK9s-MaEOjnRktQnuBgWWVprF4DTsRgaknxAMAbXJ4MtSdEzh9rZMH-vhX5w/s1280/V%20Rinot.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisgcn0C7ty3WswY81f6Tt2ARt-5KFp5ESluBtVFYe09Q34QuXDmc8W4w0llGgx8kcXFkVFUdhu836GKFQeslhjZMWPDn9KmKCmQxNS6mM-YaWoo2l75Su3wzMlLqICSgJK9s-MaEOjnRktQnuBgWWVprF4DTsRgaknxAMAbXJ4MtSdEzh9rZMH-vhX5w/w300-h400/V%20Rinot.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgfgpi9lx16Z9HwwFHR6_U78WBgveZVWWs-CwQJuE_Jm5y6OSNDObaN1_lm5QbtWbq-uf3akSKcMcEhBD-obEUhVQ-RHz4hQa5OceROyy-QR1eTONcqPA_v0zP8dCDxr4sDf_bbFKbB59LkplBrjc0gVVp3Etxnz9pejvv67q16IazpgefxwPfaMNJ8Q/s1280/V%20Rinotb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgfgpi9lx16Z9HwwFHR6_U78WBgveZVWWs-CwQJuE_Jm5y6OSNDObaN1_lm5QbtWbq-uf3akSKcMcEhBD-obEUhVQ-RHz4hQa5OceROyy-QR1eTONcqPA_v0zP8dCDxr4sDf_bbFKbB59LkplBrjc0gVVp3Etxnz9pejvv67q16IazpgefxwPfaMNJ8Q/w300-h400/V%20Rinotb.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p> </p><p>At the Rebschule Freytag stand at the 2022 Vineyard and Winery Show (Detling, near Maidstone in<br />Kent) there was a bottle of Rinot on tasting and we thought this wine was very interesting indeed.<br /><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p>Rinot is a Czech cross between Merzling and a combination of Seyve Villard and Pinot Gris. There are <br />therefore genes from Vitis Vinifera, Vitis Berlandii, Vitis Rupestris and Vitis Linecumii in the DNA. <br />This is positively the first vine we have encountered with Vitis Linecumii. In fact we've never heard of <br />that species although without it neither Chambourcin, Vidal Blanc or several other varieties would not exist which would be a pity. </p><p>What a complicated business this vine breeding is but what a miracle that something<br />as lovely as Rinot can come out of it.<br /></p><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Best new wine merchant</b></span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><u><span style="font-family: times;">Alzbeta Novotna, Wines of Bohemia</span></u></pre><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR7cUleqCFL2-2lIoQc1W0W6VQfU_LKLXKxGRYiHVWSWvfzlevTITmCYbitgO2nD8xrn7S_YzpoIgbFmVEQBPd49aQ9XBJj1Th3LYB_VMWfrQ9PpeHBZG-TLWFbAz61SpBbETc_hZFqpNa6WlzgrdjaH6RrAnmdHLzwNVub9Pk8QVQal2e8_5B6Hq_YA/s275/Alzbeta.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="183" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR7cUleqCFL2-2lIoQc1W0W6VQfU_LKLXKxGRYiHVWSWvfzlevTITmCYbitgO2nD8xrn7S_YzpoIgbFmVEQBPd49aQ9XBJj1Th3LYB_VMWfrQ9PpeHBZG-TLWFbAz61SpBbETc_hZFqpNa6WlzgrdjaH6RrAnmdHLzwNVub9Pk8QVQal2e8_5B6Hq_YA/w266-h400/Alzbeta.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>Ms. Novotna is an energetic and well-informed new winemerchant specialising in the wines of Bohemia. We are fortunate that she has chosen to be with us here in the UK and to be bringing us wines of individuality. She is not the only one we have come across this year; NIKI specialising in Serbian wines is another but Wines of Bohemia is more recently established and so receives our accolade as Best New Merchant.<br /><span style="font-family: times;">.</span></p><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Best wine merchant</b></span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><u><span style="font-family: times;">Hedonism</span></u><br /></pre> </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9anu70jDXofsybMPZ6WIm0fPVPfKlwz8hoNgvoZf5TbqXxhZV1PV1lGPAITBD7mcAw6xdgOLRZgIGvZGehSeCbP2lv1xjECkYWM5vQp4l8UR23k9r9FNF_UVuc6j68_SXw6Kk2nzVF4v_DIHU8uLlMdV_cjIOBeZ2mPMOa4aoIJ-MuorOqF_T89vMOQ/s750/Hedonismf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="750" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9anu70jDXofsybMPZ6WIm0fPVPfKlwz8hoNgvoZf5TbqXxhZV1PV1lGPAITBD7mcAw6xdgOLRZgIGvZGehSeCbP2lv1xjECkYWM5vQp4l8UR23k9r9FNF_UVuc6j68_SXw6Kk2nzVF4v_DIHU8uLlMdV_cjIOBeZ2mPMOa4aoIJ-MuorOqF_T89vMOQ/w400-h295/Hedonismf.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> </div><div> </div><div>Hedonism is the super posh winemerchant in the heart of Mayfair, London. <br />Founded by a Russian oligarch, Evgeny Chichvarkin apparently because he was surprised there was <br />nowhere in the city you could buy a case of Petrus at short notice for those impromptu <br />dinners you might want to throw if a fellow oligarch happened to drop in. <br /><br />OK that may be exaggerating but it was apparently something along those lines.<br /><br />We on the Slotovino awards committee have a similar attitude to wine snobism as Nigella Lawson<br />has to the concept of Fine Dining (makes her want to lie on the floor and weep). <br />However, Hedonism is not really despicable at all. In fact it is replete with interesting bottles <br />representative of all sorts of territories at normal prices. Furthermore it has a staff as <br />numerous as they are knowledgeable and the place is a very pleasant spot for an hour or two of<br />bottle fondling and education. You can even walk out with something interesting under £20<br />or that special bottle costing four figures if you happen to have made a killing on financial markets that morning.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH5KDMd42TU8Sj1O0WD4oUDPjelx1H0gDUeTGzJ1Et532xdTYF1CnM8mcdLUkzVB67jRMMbh6nJdoX7MZj6vNH0MA2sU0HgxcA8x25IYHQLuDCqHSCU-HPFCHBo9rtbVL2UGeOrtYtPfUYKEUNrZh4hb05fdndYNkqHccLgMliOjZjXjYSdny9Yesc9w/s1280/SA%20Telti=Kurukf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH5KDMd42TU8Sj1O0WD4oUDPjelx1H0gDUeTGzJ1Et532xdTYF1CnM8mcdLUkzVB67jRMMbh6nJdoX7MZj6vNH0MA2sU0HgxcA8x25IYHQLuDCqHSCU-HPFCHBo9rtbVL2UGeOrtYtPfUYKEUNrZh4hb05fdndYNkqHccLgMliOjZjXjYSdny9Yesc9w/s320/SA%20Telti=Kurukf.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br />Our last purchase there was the Ukranian Telti-Kuruk at around £23 as mentioned above. Any merchant carrying that bottle gets our vote.<br /><br /><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><br /></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Best restaurant winelist</b></span></span><br /></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times;"><u>Brawn.</u> </span></span></pre>This Columbia Road so-called 'neighbourhood' restaurant is as they say 'worth crossing London for', not least for the winelist. Originally set up by Les Caves de Pyrene many of the wines may still be obtained from them. The list is too extensive to check but whoever has sourced them and wherever they come from, the result is everything you could wish for, even though some prices are steep. </div><div> </div><div>Just one example, under Whites/Jura, Savoie, Auvergne - a category some restaurants don't even have - 20 wines are listed (including a white Poulsard!) ranging from £50 - £92.</div><div><br /></div><div>Added to all that, the food and especially the service are exemplary.<br /><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><br /></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Predictions for 2023</b></span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><u><span style="font-family: times;">Sparkling Tea!</span></u></pre><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWsu_rMs6YEFyS8CmiVsy1Wcoqt4aBjF4yQgC1yK3MDH3VvoO1GT13YOUr1uhiTVKj1SEreBRHGNFzxhap6Hd2RPaK6fbBeu_LVyrtSJ2ysthpGDwESQ13vMQQFo53t8ueWy13SVL2eXjfmGbEUnC9pjdn_6QPImbO47GrOhr4VuCvyTjNQSl9I118zA/s1280/STf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWsu_rMs6YEFyS8CmiVsy1Wcoqt4aBjF4yQgC1yK3MDH3VvoO1GT13YOUr1uhiTVKj1SEreBRHGNFzxhap6Hd2RPaK6fbBeu_LVyrtSJ2ysthpGDwESQ13vMQQFo53t8ueWy13SVL2eXjfmGbEUnC9pjdn_6QPImbO47GrOhr4VuCvyTjNQSl9I118zA/s320/STf.jpg" width="240" /></a></div></div><div></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4B0bmpqNyHpuIEQgoCxEUmvlf1b-iCQMGQzrcAEIABEqiWRxRPfkS7wMLM3NFQB-UqwwSza4tbnbdh7xo0Cc2pW1j9pNAUXL5pJ8tCsYkYbYHBUn4undUt6kGqKkssP_DT2w9S-0ANWKCfYQMFp4mYFPw9r5O9vBpVZ_0K-dx3lgA6EaiHxksrW7NlQ/s1280/STb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4B0bmpqNyHpuIEQgoCxEUmvlf1b-iCQMGQzrcAEIABEqiWRxRPfkS7wMLM3NFQB-UqwwSza4tbnbdh7xo0Cc2pW1j9pNAUXL5pJ8tCsYkYbYHBUn4undUt6kGqKkssP_DT2w9S-0ANWKCfYQMFp4mYFPw9r5O9vBpVZ_0K-dx3lgA6EaiHxksrW7NlQ/s320/STb.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /> </div><div>Yes, you read it here. Not wine at all, no grapes of whatever variety are involved. So what is it doing<br />here in the esteemed Slotovino 2022 Awards?</div><div><br />Allow us to explain. Apparently 0% alcohol 'wines' are expected to grow 35% by 2023 according to Wein.Plus. Plenty of winemakers are removing the alcohol from wine by various means but what is left is mostly unsatisfying and it might even be questionable as wine at all. Then there are the beverages using ingredients with only a tenuous connection with wine such as vinegar. Such concoctions tend to taste like, well - vinegar. <br /> <br />When we first saw the words 'Sparkling Tea' we thought the world had finally gone mad. Worse we <br />imagined this was some kind of excess as imagined by Mrs. Doyle of 'Father Ted.' It is not necessary <br />to go into the English obsession with tea in this blog. It gets more extreme by the day. We find ourselves siding with the aristocrat described by Bill Bryson as forbidding his family to drink tea. They of course did so secretly but one day he surprised them and threw their cups and teapot out of the window.<br /> <br />So what is the story? Well it takes place in a fantastic restaurant in Mousehole, Cornwall called <br />2, Fore Street, In keeping with the craze for non-alcoholic drinks there was an enticing list of cocktails<br />(mocktails) and such to satisfy teetotallers, drivers and those just wanting a healthy life. Among these <br />drinks was a sparkling tea so we thought 'let's see what this 'connerie' is all about and ordered a shot. <br />This came out of a Champagne type bottle and was poured into a Champagne flute. All quite impressive and seemly given the cost of the drink.<br /> <br />The colour was rather brown which was not unexpected but the taste was nothing like tea. Apparently tea is only a base for the addition of all sorts of botanicals and flavourings and in this case it was all rather pleasant even if it was rather off-dry. It may not have tasted like wine but it looked like wine and had the same refreshing effect as some sparkling wines without the alcohol kick of course. It was something to sip rather than gulp down. Definitely not a thirst-quensher. <br /> <br />We are not hooked on Sparkling Tea but we can understand those who could be. So if you imagine this <br />catching on the sky is the limit. Think of all those who are forbidden alcohol, all those who choose not to imbibe alcohol, young people wanting something special to drink. At last something 'grown up' and <br />not unsophisticated.<br /> <br />At the moment Sparkling Tea is a luxury item. That is a good way to start off. Prices can come down<br />but it should maintain its cache. <br /><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoTzBYbHCUDBVAE3ndMUZM88Ilj5zz0LKprdfb6shWG_o0U7sRQ976yi-PBCuO_X0llOL-98t8QMSM1CisJsTjBK5PTASogTMbQu8tiNGnrcpZmx74b96AoSrNREdjxLHWRra8407b_lOfL3oaJIAEhQPMK2GICZMiiWhL5ZxwOnN8SIs-q0o1cJQUSg/s1280/STbott.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoTzBYbHCUDBVAE3ndMUZM88Ilj5zz0LKprdfb6shWG_o0U7sRQ976yi-PBCuO_X0llOL-98t8QMSM1CisJsTjBK5PTASogTMbQu8tiNGnrcpZmx74b96AoSrNREdjxLHWRra8407b_lOfL3oaJIAEhQPMK2GICZMiiWhL5ZxwOnN8SIs-q0o1cJQUSg/w150-h200/STbott.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><br /></span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><br /></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Worst Airport Duty Free</b></span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;">All - Malaga, Barcelona, Pisa, Marseille, Genova. All as bad as eachother. What's going on?</span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Best Wine Supplies shop </span></b></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><b><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></b></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><u><span style="font-family: times;">G.M. Luico, Enologia, Genova</span></u></pre>This is a new category. Normally a wine/beer supplies shop would not interest wine drinkers but everyone needs at least a corkscrew and maybe some gear for preserving wine such as Vacuvin,</div><div>possibly a wine thermometer, a decanter and whatnot. We have recently proposed a two handled corker as something reasonably priced that will improve the preservation of wine left-overs without forking out for a Corovin. We're not sure if Luic sells cannisters of Argon gas but we wouldn't be surprised given the fact they appear to stock everything else for the making and drinking of wine, Also paraphernalia to do with beer and olive oil.<br /></div><div> </div><div>Corks? Anyone making wine in the UK as a hobby will tell you it is not possible to buy top quality corks in the UK. They are available only in large quantities - multiples of 1,000 or more. Corks are </div><div>important so when in Italy, we researched the problem and that is what led us to Luico Salita San Caterina 17r, Genova.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRxEUHUdQwdGBeb22hp5rhsvPVn7xFYqonjBsI8aPYjfiZNFg9eq4OHN863EHHpA0RwqNmGgXRzo66cMMM33aQqiMW8rrk-OaQB2TQq8kLjl3_vvYWJ_23R-gvhgvyEedqW3F0hPOjSKL1tqTbF1rlPu6wcoRQwER8b-UkZbJlu8yHA88GJqWuKt_2oA/s1280/WM%20Luicof.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRxEUHUdQwdGBeb22hp5rhsvPVn7xFYqonjBsI8aPYjfiZNFg9eq4OHN863EHHpA0RwqNmGgXRzo66cMMM33aQqiMW8rrk-OaQB2TQq8kLjl3_vvYWJ_23R-gvhgvyEedqW3F0hPOjSKL1tqTbF1rlPu6wcoRQwER8b-UkZbJlu8yHA88GJqWuKt_2oA/w300-h400/WM%20Luicof.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div></div><div></div><div>Founded in 1855, this little shop is a protected establishment (Impresa Storica D'Italia) in the heart of Genova right next to the Teatro Carlo Felice (opera house). The words, Cornucopia, Aladdin's Cave, Temple of wine supplies give an inkling of what goes on inside. </div><div> </div><div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC3HWt-DBzdGFz9vJoU09ZzIxashNFylimxEjF_8jFKwSbIl7U0udXrEATPOMfTUqrzW5tTvj7pPi70gpDfK_zzu9VEKuYkvJSaSd_tOzJ7wlR8ycVAYvc-31JegstqS04sFevuIyeS4Cr0Dft3GzIkZldxbxFmE_8qQCnHOEBdAGsMQoav0_h15C4ig/s700/Corks%20by%20hand.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="525" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC3HWt-DBzdGFz9vJoU09ZzIxashNFylimxEjF_8jFKwSbIl7U0udXrEATPOMfTUqrzW5tTvj7pPi70gpDfK_zzu9VEKuYkvJSaSd_tOzJ7wlR8ycVAYvc-31JegstqS04sFevuIyeS4Cr0Dft3GzIkZldxbxFmE_8qQCnHOEBdAGsMQoav0_h15C4ig/w300-h400/Corks%20by%20hand.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /></div><div> </div><div>The words Fabbrica di Turaccili lavorati a coltello mean 'makers of cork stoppers made by knife.' Luico used to make their own corks from cork trees in Finalmarina but the process is mechanised now, Clients of the shop included Garibaldi who spent his last years in Genova and a famous set designer Gilberto Govi who apprently used cork in his productions. <br /></div><div></div><div><br /><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQNVMdGCq2M9WUxXL1JT_GwehaNDU73Yg23SIqCKSrHcmmGPY97MEoL_zWth2TTskzZE17D8lLwCvpagjS5SFKbPH8I4MMvn1hXRDgjQeo8389OyuxoQQQ6bcJ4mN0Te-ACeniVRLmF2916XigWsbRt417dm5vNzppZCkiMQN6N8XWBcmMlfz1HaBQjQ/s1280/WM%20Luicoi.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQNVMdGCq2M9WUxXL1JT_GwehaNDU73Yg23SIqCKSrHcmmGPY97MEoL_zWth2TTskzZE17D8lLwCvpagjS5SFKbPH8I4MMvn1hXRDgjQeo8389OyuxoQQQ6bcJ4mN0Te-ACeniVRLmF2916XigWsbRt417dm5vNzppZCkiMQN6N8XWBcmMlfz1HaBQjQ/w300-h400/WM%20Luicoi.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: times;"></span></pre>Corks are available in different sizes and 3 different qualities at between about E.1 and E.2 each. <br />We also bought some yeasts for re-starting stuck fermentations and so on. Rosanna Luico presided over <br />all this stuff and was a mine of information and good advice. </div><div> </div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZZNfBEJmvcraBl6kHaxkF5zXaP8IB4-9L4I39sfxF49Gg94u-2G5pj82WVSSSnZadZ0pCBGZ4yYFVhcpveUJ-qSdqAJ3psLavL7IytNr5MDCuPC9efsUS8Zen0oKfVSUAf_B48fOzF7q4WKZc1gC6Lsl6ZpfdMMT1HR5IKft5dH8RRnrTO2kyuNJNbw/s700/Luica%20father%20and%20daughter.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="525" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZZNfBEJmvcraBl6kHaxkF5zXaP8IB4-9L4I39sfxF49Gg94u-2G5pj82WVSSSnZadZ0pCBGZ4yYFVhcpveUJ-qSdqAJ3psLavL7IytNr5MDCuPC9efsUS8Zen0oKfVSUAf_B48fOzF7q4WKZc1gC6Lsl6ZpfdMMT1HR5IKft5dH8RRnrTO2kyuNJNbw/w300-h400/Luica%20father%20and%20daughter.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carlo Luico and his daughter Rosanna, direct descendents of the founders in 1855.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </div><div> </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1meVuSKKPeKGKxMGFUS3QO9F_L_sDGeGFbfWiYcfWyehkdU02_b0Jfv5cHcotyriKsgZ7ELIVKRHYZo-gRXZqQWr2Uhb_rh-Mf0lJIH0ivAzJIpKyNEw7bMrFAW4uCgpL_CxOwy0F8EAvVUTPHWHmEi2Ng1B_JCnsnXJe6QPQtL_0km8Y1R7MH4kG3Q/s1280/Luico.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1meVuSKKPeKGKxMGFUS3QO9F_L_sDGeGFbfWiYcfWyehkdU02_b0Jfv5cHcotyriKsgZ7ELIVKRHYZo-gRXZqQWr2Uhb_rh-Mf0lJIH0ivAzJIpKyNEw7bMrFAW4uCgpL_CxOwy0F8EAvVUTPHWHmEi2Ng1B_JCnsnXJe6QPQtL_0km8Y1R7MH4kG3Q/w300-h400/Luico.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /> </div><div> </div><div>Especially cute was the Biodynamic table of when was best to cork wine according to the phases of the moon. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvjHzxH2qXaK_MG4zOWLRej0YaIs9xoxHzT6Z0HIlndfvAb9XVvnEtIlxqb4-sy_c-q-223wKGnfA6oHBOfETVemgz3edB7yFJwIiTP8_-3bn1cH_GGe-2Q7L3nZEFMqipXZLxcij6E1jBo_vxVYHC7mwuE_N6EFF0EXZ62Np5U6WYpkJd-9aUDiUbOw/s800/Luico%20damigiani.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="800" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvjHzxH2qXaK_MG4zOWLRej0YaIs9xoxHzT6Z0HIlndfvAb9XVvnEtIlxqb4-sy_c-q-223wKGnfA6oHBOfETVemgz3edB7yFJwIiTP8_-3bn1cH_GGe-2Q7L3nZEFMqipXZLxcij6E1jBo_vxVYHC7mwuE_N6EFF0EXZ62Np5U6WYpkJd-9aUDiUbOw/w200-h125/Luico%20damigiani.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><br /><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Special award for the re-establishment of an endangered variety/varieties</b></span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><u><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">Joszef Szentesi.</span></u></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></pre><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoRP7D1zrnoXaqiLjTss4LfOQi7_M3Z_k40TpDdokiataOmqFaSJJUfNvHxoEmXp16dPepRm2nNyjhdOk6M91FmyhB5KRFELtCL1FgM9p4UijzD5x8J4GIbig8ujtmXkMvbB7eAlQdxaTFUoxGC_x18XmUfH_itZUjzv1nZXai2p4unhCK3y3XKTkqTA/s259/Szentesi.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoRP7D1zrnoXaqiLjTss4LfOQi7_M3Z_k40TpDdokiataOmqFaSJJUfNvHxoEmXp16dPepRm2nNyjhdOk6M91FmyhB5KRFELtCL1FgM9p4UijzD5x8J4GIbig8ujtmXkMvbB7eAlQdxaTFUoxGC_x18XmUfH_itZUjzv1nZXai2p4unhCK3y3XKTkqTA/w400-h300/Szentesi.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>As a child, József Szentesi
showed little interest in working in his father’s 1ha vineyard in
Budaörs, 10km from Budapest. But, in 1998, he decided to make his
own wine, training himself and gaining inspiration from winemakers in
Burgundy. Currently, he manages 16ha on the slopes of Lake Velencei,
50km from Hungary’s capital, at an altitude of 175m. He grows 30
different grape varieties – including 20 that are extremely rare.</b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b></b><i>"I also have traditional varieties, Pinot Noir, Merlot, Cabernet
Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Kadarka from the reds; Riesling, Zengő,
Sauvignon Blanc, some Furmint and Kéknyelű from the whites. In an
old publication written in 1880, I read about the ancient first-,
second-, and third-class grape varieties. I was surprised that I
hadn't even heard about many of the first-class ones. I have chosen
10 red and 10 white varieties; I purchased the rooted grafts from the
Winery Research Faculty of University of Pécs, and Dr Pál Kozma
(grape breeder) helped with the grafting on. In 2001, I read an
article about ‘Buda Red’ wine, which is a blend from Kadarka and
Csókaszőlő grapes that was one of the most important export
commodities of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. I decided that I wanted
to make this wine. In 2003, we grafted 300 grapevines of Csókaszőlő
(below), from which I made 40 litres of wine in 2004. In
2005, Hungarian winemakers visited me and were fascinated by the
wine, because since 130 years no one made wine from this variety.
Some of them also took grafts, for example, Vylyan winery from
Villány. </i></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEOeBpWj2j2fzjSAUSQzLVfbj53j081cFDVf8O6lam0X0mWCOQwg1S2BNLEqhyDklFrJo-lecL3lYDZ-7E52IRUAUeZrVcL9ijuJUOPUbCGf7qQzCL7J3mtCJ_gp8a8C9DmRDRAI7gbFKZiad53tBRiopzF5YE7ZrraL-yacNTUcEf41HoYJTSsDyWug/s900/Cs%C3%B3kasz%C5%91l%C5%91.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="900" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEOeBpWj2j2fzjSAUSQzLVfbj53j081cFDVf8O6lam0X0mWCOQwg1S2BNLEqhyDklFrJo-lecL3lYDZ-7E52IRUAUeZrVcL9ijuJUOPUbCGf7qQzCL7J3mtCJ_gp8a8C9DmRDRAI7gbFKZiad53tBRiopzF5YE7ZrraL-yacNTUcEf41HoYJTSsDyWug/w400-h400/Cs%C3%B3kasz%C5%91l%C5%91.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><i>The reds are Tihanyi Kék, Tarcali Kék,
Csókaszőlő, Kékbajor, Feketefájú Bajor, Hajnos Kék,
Kékszilváni, Purcsin, Laska, Feketemuskotály. The whites are
Szerémi Zöld, Balafánt, Kovácsi, Kolontár, Lisztes, Fehér
Gohér, Hamvas, Sárfehér, Vörösdinka, Piros Bakator. I see a big
potential in the reds, because only Kékfrankos (Blaufrankisch) and
Kadarka have survived the phylloxera plague from the native red grape
varieties. From eight of the reds I already made wine several times,
and this year I’ll make from Purcsin and Kékszilváni. From the
whites, I see potential in Szerémi Zöld. In addition, I make a
blend of Lisztes Fehér and Zöldszilváni. </i><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">How wonderful is that?</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Most interesting wine trend</b></span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;">New resistant and hardy grape varieties for classic apellations.</span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Book</span></b></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><u><span style="font-family: times;">Which Winegrape Varieties are grown where? by Kym Anderson and Signe Nelgen.</span></u></pre><p>This is by no means a new publication although it has been updated. Of course the data is changing all the time but coming to it late in the day doesn't change its fascination. The book is quoted frequently but we are ashamed to say we hadn't taken a look at it until now. You can buy it at over £45 but if you are not in the mood to do that, you can download the 2013 or 2016 edition free of charge. <br /> <br />Kym Anderson re-defines the concept of Renaissance Man and measures of industry, breadth of interest and productivity. According to Wikipedia he is an economist specialising in trade policy and issues relating to the World Trade Organisation.</p><br /><u>Studies;</u><br /><br />University of New England</div><br /><div>University of Adelaide</div><div>University of Chicago</div><div>Stanford University<br /><br /><u>Teaching;</u><br /><br />Australian Defence College</div><div>Australian National University</div><div>Peking University</div><div>University of Siena</div><div>University of Sydney</div><div>Uppsala University</div><div>World Trade Institute</div><div>Swiss universities of Bern, Fribourg and Neuchatel</div><div>Georgetown University Law School<br /><br /><u>Periods of leave at</u><br /><br />International Economics Institute and Rural Economics Institutes of Korea</div><div>Visiting Fellow, Ford Foundation</div><div>Visiting Fellow, Australian department of Trade</div><div>Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm</div><div>GATT (now WTO) Secretariat, Geneva</div><div>Research Group of the World Bank, Wasj=hington DC.<br /><br /><u>Positions</u><br /><br />Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London</div><div>Fellow, Australian Academy of Social Sciences, Australia</div><div>Fellow, American Agricultural and Applied Economics Association,</div><div>Distinguished Fellow (and former President) of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society</div><div>Fellow (and Vice President) of the American Association of Wine Economists</div><div>Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.</div><div>International journals' editorial board;<br />Journal of International Economics Law</div><div>Journal of Wine Economics</div><div>and others.</div><p>He has published around 40 books and more than 900 journal articles and chapters in other books. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Eminence personified. <b>-</b></p><p style="text-align: left;">Our award for '<span style="font-family: times;">Which Winegrape Varieties are grown where?' is given for its mighty snapshot of statistics relating to just that: charts from 53 named counries (including unexpected places such as Myanmar and Norway) and 'Rest of World' comprising 9 countries showing </span></p><p><br />Total Grapevine Area Hervested</p><p>Share of World Grapevine Area Harvested<br /><br />Total Winegrape Area<br /><br />Share of World Winegrape Area<br /><br />Share of Wine-Grapes in Total Grapevine Area (%)<br /><br />Share of National Agricultural Crop Area under Grapevine<br /><br />Grape Yield (tonnes per ha.)<br /><br />Total Grape Production (Kt)<br /><br />Share of World Grape Production (%) </p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">We were especially amused by this chart showing UK Triomphe D'Alsace as top of the Varietal Intensity </span><span style="font-family: times;">Index relative to the world in 2010. <br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheyn5Gr3iK5bIfvEki3RKKNcZAvr1sBB-ynh5Wuujva8iEU8dPE7HTBjqzjWDtgWvuxC8rTVLgSCLkurc-EbvEHbKzPEmDHBVl_kL9hx6MdCmbLSSLKX7fu4oQi6kC-57gELKtZoTRbE0NGHn5e--5bNlYlup9Ba64fjjCaBNAeaWuYSQ-OSts-0QAOQ/s1280/UK%20Chart.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheyn5Gr3iK5bIfvEki3RKKNcZAvr1sBB-ynh5Wuujva8iEU8dPE7HTBjqzjWDtgWvuxC8rTVLgSCLkurc-EbvEHbKzPEmDHBVl_kL9hx6MdCmbLSSLKX7fu4oQi6kC-57gELKtZoTRbE0NGHn5e--5bNlYlup9Ba64fjjCaBNAeaWuYSQ-OSts-0QAOQ/w400-h300/UK%20Chart.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-family: times;">A dubious honour.<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b> </b></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><br /> </p><p><b>Indispensible website 2022</b><br /> </p><p><u>Wein.Plus</u><br /></p><p>There are many good websites you need to research wine. Purple Pages, Winesearcher are <br />two of the indispensible ones. To these we would like to add Wein.Plus which has been going <br />since 1998. It bills itself as the Wine Platform for Wine Lovers. It has an indispensible<br />Lexicon which it says is the largest wine encyclopedia in the world with 26,013 entries. It is especially good on grape varieties.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihEOPNsMEZCCQH0I8wUI638JkUqNmMOtmI704ZHMdAQBNG4ePra6sl3xGWHxs64YlKnihmXlI9ndEcxNnpXzm-_MdakTXNnbDuRBuI63KohT5tORA_lZiQvtfW1uIJ9Rw8NEkDRkquzgMh_qYNsvD8byTKmp8kH9Hsm-sMcX-gHD9V3ckoVD0dp2arxg/s400/wein.plus.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="258" data-original-width="400" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihEOPNsMEZCCQH0I8wUI638JkUqNmMOtmI704ZHMdAQBNG4ePra6sl3xGWHxs64YlKnihmXlI9ndEcxNnpXzm-_MdakTXNnbDuRBuI63KohT5tORA_lZiQvtfW1uIJ9Rw8NEkDRkquzgMh_qYNsvD8byTKmp8kH9Hsm-sMcX-gHD9V3ckoVD0dp2arxg/s320/wein.plus.png" width="320" /></a></div><p>There are pages on Producers, Regions, Wine Basics, Find and Buy, plus Reviews, News, a <br />Business Directory and 'Events,' but you probably know all that.<br /><br /> Why did it take us so long to join up (free) and add Wein.Plus to our arsenal?<br /></p><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;"><b> </b></span></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Various accolades and thanks to</b></span></pre>Rosanna Luic, Hannah Tovey, Oleksandra Hryhorieva, Viktoria Palinkash, Irina Diachenkova<br />Valentina Parsaieva, Giorgi Iukuridze, Bill - digger, Francesco D'Affano, Francesco Visentin, Marta Poian, Paola Balli, Martina Olivo, Daniela Shahab, Baptiste Ducassou, Manuel Casagrande, Martin Distl, Paolo Addis, Elisabetta Barberis, Angelo Peretti, Alessandra Zambonin, Sam Doncaster, Volker Freytag, Alzbeta Novotna, Justin Howard-Sneyd MW, Andrew Jefford, Massimo Grasso, Emilia Holman, Elena Moreno, Emanuela Cattaneo, Elvira Ackermann, Tamas Koerner, Christian Gelbe-Haussen, <br /><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><br /></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><br /></pre><pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Translation" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"><pre class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0.5cm;"><pre class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0.5cm; text-align: justify;"></pre>
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"I'm going to replant Merlot"
For the moment, he has not yet replanted the areas grubbed up. But, this year, he will have to resolve it if he does not want to lose his planting rights. “I will replant Merlot even if I am not convinced that it is not very sensitive to Flavescence Dorée. </i></p><p><i>But what else to plant? Syrah? It's an ostrich: you don't see the symptoms, but the vine can be contaminated and contribute to the spread of the disease. <b>Fleurtaï</b> and <b>Soreli</b> seem a little less sensitive, but they are not completely unscathed. As for Muscat à petits grains, which is also tolerant, there is no market for this variety. » </i></p><p><i>In Vergèze (Gard), the Vignoble de la Voie d'Héraclès cellar is also badly affected by this scourge. Committed to organic farming for a long time, it is all the more vulnerable as the effectiveness of Pyrévert, the only insecticide authorized in organic farming, remains uncertain. </i></p><p><i>Organic winegrower in Poilhes, in the Hérault, Bernard Paillet has given up on certain grape varieties: </i></p><p><i>"Gewurztraminer, Pinot Gris, Sauvignon, Cabernet-Sauvignon... it's over, I don't plant any more as long as there are the Flavescence Dorée in my area. </i></p><p><i>This producer was forced to uproot 6 ha in five years. "Sensitivity to disease is now the number one criterion in my choice of grape varieties," he says. But we have little information about it. We rely on our observations and feedback from our fellow winegrowers. If we had the statistics of the varieties grubbed up because of Flavescence Dorée, that would already be a clue. »</i></p><p><i>If Bernard Paillet does not miss Cabernet-Sauvignon, often too tannic on his terroir, nor Sauvignon Blanc, less and less thiolated with global warming, he regrets having to do without the Albarino. Now, he favors five grape varieties: Merlot, Syrah, Viognier, <b>Fleurtaï</b> and <b>Soreli</b>. To maintain a 65% white grape variety, he "viognises" his vineyard. "Chardonnay, I have to plant it because the market demands it, but I'm clenching my butt," he adds. I reserve it for areas that are less infested. »</i></p><p><em>The 'Vignerons du Pays d’Ensérune' have the same problems.. « We are sending vignerons a list of more resitstant varieties: Syrah, Merlot, Viognier and Côt (Malbec).' </em></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinmCvpyX1LKwf5XsGBnLImf12XF8QBsdNZs3SzG3fkihpNRCi4eeCozKGryZhB10CMx_oKTZtxeF0kAS2LKf7BAfptrJnhP1dp_DgVRBItbRXVQUz52ascR1OyUQGAGH3xX7_wiuV2yp5nVaoq0QvMl9L21Ra9cl3WPhwBDNDYE6KGDeaPLXRfsOJ8uQ/s304/Flavescence%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="166" data-original-width="304" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinmCvpyX1LKwf5XsGBnLImf12XF8QBsdNZs3SzG3fkihpNRCi4eeCozKGryZhB10CMx_oKTZtxeF0kAS2LKf7BAfptrJnhP1dp_DgVRBItbRXVQUz52ascR1OyUQGAGH3xX7_wiuV2yp5nVaoq0QvMl9L21Ra9cl3WPhwBDNDYE6KGDeaPLXRfsOJ8uQ/s1600/Flavescence%202.jpg" width="304" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4u3K_SVG_0tbP4WdbJkocVA-Pf9XbVaWPe3EeuXELd8gXyz1GRuvqhBSLRKLiFJTugpZCB7lXSGEyrOCy0ZWnhOV5xfg8xV4USAbG9jHV2n4LmdNKWiHhmsn5DjQIcNLgRZEls1JNB07pQCBXfBx8eShF2GjEaJiDKXXLTsDE-rAQvccadtO0Gh2bFA/s259/Grapevine%20yellows.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4u3K_SVG_0tbP4WdbJkocVA-Pf9XbVaWPe3EeuXELd8gXyz1GRuvqhBSLRKLiFJTugpZCB7lXSGEyrOCy0ZWnhOV5xfg8xV4USAbG9jHV2n4LmdNKWiHhmsn5DjQIcNLgRZEls1JNB07pQCBXfBx8eShF2GjEaJiDKXXLTsDE-rAQvccadtO0Gh2bFA/s1600/Grapevine%20yellows.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><p><br />* <span style="font-size: x-small;">Flavescence Dorée (Grapevine Yellows) is a relatively recent disease. First appearing in Armagnac in 1949 like Phylloxera it was said to have been brought from America. By the early 1990s it was widespread in France and has now spread all over the world. The spreading is done by an insect called Leafhopper. Signs include late budbreak, very slow shoot growth which may stop altogether while leaves yellow and droop downwards. Shoots also droop and bunches fall off. Berries are small and bitter. Half the vineyard may be affected in any one year. The fruit in the remainder is not affected. Flavescance Doree and associated diseases are potentially a worse threat than Phylloxera because it is spreading fast and there is no way it can be controlled. Having said that, insecticides are used to some effect. There is even </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span class="" style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">one called Pyrévert that can be used in organic viticulture and is
to some degree effective against the leafhopper. </span><br /></span><br /></span></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> </em></p><div class="tw-target-rmn tw-ta-container F0azHf tw-nfl" id="tw-target-rmn-container"><pre class="tw-data-placeholder tw-text-small tw-ta" data-placeholder="" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-rmn" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Y2IQFc"></span></pre></div><p></p><p> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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might be similar to Moscatel Roxo in Portugal (I’ll have to research
this).' </p><p>While waiting for the Anorak's researches, we can only say that one school of thought think Moscatel Tinto is a black mutation of Muscat Blanc a petits grains and another has it that it is Listan Prieto originally from Spain but now common to South America. </p><p>For our taste we think it much more likely to be related to the former.<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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As mentioned in these pages, Picapoll is not Picpoul. nor is it just Picapoll. It is actually Clairette but not as we know it. Here in North-East Spain it seems to have found its best expression.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKhTUfNavzQZrLgRTB4FpVxmrMEV1K-BwVM8qdlricEd27AfakG0-MnOMC1wZ1EWaUv6X2p0RGuxf6wZyALXCFJWiSTk6tZw0blvq5wnei_TUNq55XZkOEu31uADVhlbjs_VcgZ3FfRwRja8TS7NR-wwgcaEyGr18equ8oQmduiASfsw80ddSVUHH7AA/s1280/O%20del%20M%20Pic.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKhTUfNavzQZrLgRTB4FpVxmrMEV1K-BwVM8qdlricEd27AfakG0-MnOMC1wZ1EWaUv6X2p0RGuxf6wZyALXCFJWiSTk6tZw0blvq5wnei_TUNq55XZkOEu31uADVhlbjs_VcgZ3FfRwRja8TS7NR-wwgcaEyGr18equ8oQmduiASfsw80ddSVUHH7AA/s320/O%20del%20M%20Pic.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oller del Mas<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Blanc de Picapolls from Oller del Mas has become almost a house wine for us. It is 11.5% in alcohol, tasty and fresh. Inexpensive too.</p><p>So when we say the sign Mas Oller while driving around the area of Emporda we thoought we should pay a visit to the winery where our favourite Picapoll is grown.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbjGf5MkboKbMzwFU73-CW0ucdDDSmPQ7kytf_nPNjRMO1Dut9-0nFqISvU72Mwx8VjWJtkp7ckdu75sLBT_hFhjbiPlT1fO6kcpOz2QSQkUx6mhk9hwypAAUV86LQXBz3_G4038Ti8FAOvJnmnDKoPbApMKe-HvI6Z5UQOq-m9CGUJ7gh9V3vcCLcHQ/s1280/MO%20Sign.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbjGf5MkboKbMzwFU73-CW0ucdDDSmPQ7kytf_nPNjRMO1Dut9-0nFqISvU72Mwx8VjWJtkp7ckdu75sLBT_hFhjbiPlT1fO6kcpOz2QSQkUx6mhk9hwypAAUV86LQXBz3_G4038Ti8FAOvJnmnDKoPbApMKe-HvI6Z5UQOq-m9CGUJ7gh9V3vcCLcHQ/s320/MO%20Sign.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p>Being innocent of such matters we didn't notice that the name Mas Oller is not the same as Oller del Mas, nor that our Picapoll comes from Pla del Bages and not Emporda.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgcvEw8UynPR51sOUuUZLrWrBQuiOcbKbgWG8H9P96rovt4L5lXyQaJmuWD0iFAtsCtR8TY3TEoasM1Yd2j9SoDjKYIlHsvPXEdp00rBPxoosjyJ8YuV76afUturElwF60zhKAPA1vOUi-ZbzrpxEc2fMChMPpeCafSxr0UmfPq9H610P-eDRdw2QQ5w/s828/Mas%20Oller.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="828" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgcvEw8UynPR51sOUuUZLrWrBQuiOcbKbgWG8H9P96rovt4L5lXyQaJmuWD0iFAtsCtR8TY3TEoasM1Yd2j9SoDjKYIlHsvPXEdp00rBPxoosjyJ8YuV76afUturElwF60zhKAPA1vOUi-ZbzrpxEc2fMChMPpeCafSxr0UmfPq9H610P-eDRdw2QQ5w/s320/Mas%20Oller.webp" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mas Oller<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>So it was at the 'wrong' Mas that we found ourselves. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiYleQJPXSA9F91OQdrARoQcSzoP54q6fYUuAuYC0WGIZtxaC1datYf0w9-9YSSdknKigvtcA6vYlhGls2iNdgS3q1jXa552Jw8bdA6weO9U36_1_bUGjR3wGXRMJLykSd6e2Iji3SKbyNEpOiDDqXhqcjydnWGO4B1Cuz14ZFpEf89n9joR1COUiv0Q/s300/Mas%20Oller%20wines%20botts.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiYleQJPXSA9F91OQdrARoQcSzoP54q6fYUuAuYC0WGIZtxaC1datYf0w9-9YSSdknKigvtcA6vYlhGls2iNdgS3q1jXa552Jw8bdA6weO9U36_1_bUGjR3wGXRMJLykSd6e2Iji3SKbyNEpOiDDqXhqcjydnWGO4B1Cuz14ZFpEf89n9joR1COUiv0Q/w400-h224/Mas%20Oller%20wines%20botts.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>This turned out to be serendipitous because Mas Oller is in itself an interesting destination with a range of grapes that includes Picapoll. there is also Malvasia, Garnatxa Negra, Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc9R5t3thUQ9Hq4eKAetYD95kqbb4l03x_6rIc2D7dtYR2BNrtZVY_QkdgQ2X0WwYwNO61OF1482IL-09ii7pOjRkqgokjMtD0tfGJLNWxnKGfMoKU2xDbpIDYKky_vI7dFd_sleqOt1p-GzrteXwhlt7Ff6wW49Ibsl0g-r_FHOVDJFure3gmDPt8uQ/s320/Elvira.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; 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In 'Mar' Picapoll is in te majority</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijJnj4z-JrJF-L2dO5PT4O7O65YaSSK_MxVseXlFIlWW-HoKstJ7ac0U1dmTj1fiXlZkj2c0iJoDvop50FOnCyxtiomATkDnliT9PGw4CH18tik9l9k5Z5ozD_P_mFDyYD4lKss3B5O8u3FkH_pPKeAayvHoHUGnTGZ-9FPxxhAd6KObI2_8BG7rO0QQ/s406/MO%20Mar%20en%20calma.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="130" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijJnj4z-JrJF-L2dO5PT4O7O65YaSSK_MxVseXlFIlWW-HoKstJ7ac0U1dmTj1fiXlZkj2c0iJoDvop50FOnCyxtiomATkDnliT9PGw4CH18tik9l9k5Z5ozD_P_mFDyYD4lKss3B5O8u3FkH_pPKeAayvHoHUGnTGZ-9FPxxhAd6KObI2_8BG7rO0QQ/w127-h400/MO%20Mar%20en%20calma.png" width="127" /></a></div><br /><p>In 'Mar en calma' it is the other way round. Both have 13.5% Abv which is not unusual even in whites in Spain.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHN4jUnPEGr1A-w7Leob493VENtZ44mQZOgNBbLYn6xsJ4MBq_0pZ34nrfUqBx7jF9Ir_cgRjk6o_EQFIUqQwQf96IbC55CpysbKIJD7O5jtdxMb_Spdt5LWyKroBZUlJazgDkOaFjw2CERfADZw0iNaXc_az3sVVrfHsldyjF2KPZA2aDy8-xkCGdYA/s1280/MO%20Elvira.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHN4jUnPEGr1A-w7Leob493VENtZ44mQZOgNBbLYn6xsJ4MBq_0pZ34nrfUqBx7jF9Ir_cgRjk6o_EQFIUqQwQf96IbC55CpysbKIJD7O5jtdxMb_Spdt5LWyKroBZUlJazgDkOaFjw2CERfADZw0iNaXc_az3sVVrfHsldyjF2KPZA2aDy8-xkCGdYA/s320/MO%20Elvira.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>Elena was very keen we should taste the whole range.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXDRQuDrkufO9OfidYmnARtyT0yPgQziDJR1JlrsZRiDJ0Dkc7HEt1p_G0yl_H1JDO43yQxAJLzxbNHQ0YOzY9h0SimrEutGiWgi0c_99SgQ5URNs-zuBmmj7xsm5klZG8pnA8VDmtEzlWUtX8kTspQxHem-uUFZNGj8I7rhXTBv-oW5qkQ11GXdNHMg/s1280/MO%20Amphora.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXDRQuDrkufO9OfidYmnARtyT0yPgQziDJR1JlrsZRiDJ0Dkc7HEt1p_G0yl_H1JDO43yQxAJLzxbNHQ0YOzY9h0SimrEutGiWgi0c_99SgQ5URNs-zuBmmj7xsm5klZG8pnA8VDmtEzlWUtX8kTspQxHem-uUFZNGj8I7rhXTBv-oW5qkQ11GXdNHMg/w400-h300/MO%20Amphora.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Following the tasting she gave us a tour of the winery which included an inspection of this impressive amphora, of special interest to our resident amphora-maker.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicN93gn79AHmkT2tV3M6U252MfvWx-mwhZ431YHBj97I1QtCouytYklrYpcn-IRWe7CFK4zKc2a1kc_sdROR2P3qAri6_4KxCi1UgU5aM2IQMggF1iPyuOty0OpbsDqmyCWbs2mZUZNIJjaI27EStg_-nHg-w83InPHg0yengJaHsD4Vk3KUpL2Tsleg/s1280/MO%20fermenters.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicN93gn79AHmkT2tV3M6U252MfvWx-mwhZ431YHBj97I1QtCouytYklrYpcn-IRWe7CFK4zKc2a1kc_sdROR2P3qAri6_4KxCi1UgU5aM2IQMggF1iPyuOty0OpbsDqmyCWbs2mZUZNIJjaI27EStg_-nHg-w83InPHg0yengJaHsD4Vk3KUpL2Tsleg/s320/MO%20fermenters.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju3xe76eWaow00c7Jy0MKTybHEcw39VH7n-5MhRaxrCmcyr7VQnuspM6V8i8-l6IPx5lw0U6Q6Dh0j1CzGLgcGGFHRs5FaVkSyoItELiy0xqIWaqS8WRlwt5dZNXSPtJyM4F5re7H1mJzkQirkyreQUWmW7ZNEkWE5MdBqD4fSOe3EB1hEmBp-MtFYgQ/s1280/MO%20tanks.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju3xe76eWaow00c7Jy0MKTybHEcw39VH7n-5MhRaxrCmcyr7VQnuspM6V8i8-l6IPx5lw0U6Q6Dh0j1CzGLgcGGFHRs5FaVkSyoItELiy0xqIWaqS8WRlwt5dZNXSPtJyM4F5re7H1mJzkQirkyreQUWmW7ZNEkWE5MdBqD4fSOe3EB1hEmBp-MtFYgQ/s320/MO%20tanks.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>Steel tanks of various sizes abounded. Interesting place, Good wine, nice people. 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think it essential that anyone interested in wine should have some idea
of what it takes to make it both in the vineyard and in the winery.
This show gives you the opportunity to get an insight into what is
involved and to rub shoulders with not only the people who make the wine
but also those who toil in the vineyard.</span></b></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicnrOl0I1jb3o-M8703F1HbmpYnmEJjQh_ygsz58p-wJ9zElp_YZWPczYMuB2ZQoPD7ZFDGF8FAdwkrqCmRgKCjW_Rqe0wmM6Ycp-X9375W9h6tBsa0Bo-w4wQjVnbqgv7pw2Y5vSlfrhYDv1CGhNeO4oQBn3NZmTfujGpEOS0plRTimKr6UNQSzOGeQ/s1280/V%20Servers2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicnrOl0I1jb3o-M8703F1HbmpYnmEJjQh_ygsz58p-wJ9zElp_YZWPczYMuB2ZQoPD7ZFDGF8FAdwkrqCmRgKCjW_Rqe0wmM6Ycp-X9375W9h6tBsa0Bo-w4wQjVnbqgv7pw2Y5vSlfrhYDv1CGhNeO4oQBn3NZmTfujGpEOS0plRTimKr6UNQSzOGeQ/w400-h300/V%20Servers2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sparkling area<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There were separate areas for Sparkling and Still wines. It has to be said the crush around the fizzy ones was greater than around the still wines but interest in those was also high.<br /></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz2w6YFg6HkNn693uCknBmKzzgCh0lmt4mhZDxFos17iNx629kdCO6HQcXTRSj0Tbb6VDiceHXonUKFt6Na-Awm6ixs1j_sSpZVTjm4h93RgBZHh0p6NX_fzCyeQWZItW-9u_Mdal4CCGeZbTyNOsT6MxW0qvRawdDQU6pZaFNI5s1i_NOey_7QEMRkA/s1280/V%20Servers%201.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz2w6YFg6HkNn693uCknBmKzzgCh0lmt4mhZDxFos17iNx629kdCO6HQcXTRSj0Tbb6VDiceHXonUKFt6Na-Awm6ixs1j_sSpZVTjm4h93RgBZHh0p6NX_fzCyeQWZItW-9u_Mdal4CCGeZbTyNOsT6MxW0qvRawdDQU6pZaFNI5s1i_NOey_7QEMRkA/w400-h300/V%20Servers%201.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Still</td></tr></tbody></table><p>We decided to concentrate on the still wines leaving the sparkling ones to others. We also decided to forego signature Bacchus wines. Bacchus is a bit of a sore point with us because we had grown it ourselves and then grubbed it up due to its susceptability to the mildews. We also are not convinced that Bacchs represents the best we can achieve in this country and the following would seem to support that thesis.</p><p>Altogether whites far outnumbered Reds and Roses. Pinot Noir, Regent and Rondo were the dominant red grapes but there was a far greater range of white ones. Look out for the wine made with Muscat among the following.</p><p><u><b>Pinot Blanc</b></u></p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4qBXbVQNpeJxbeuVOo_GGDYldsRBYFrIzO8sUUoVbaQMVcGC2Pw5gZ-6kCW49RCSkHZee4_S9MapsQlbN0p-uROVPPrB8S_KTNnOcEk6FbkXqLrD41AR3GgdKj2JeKIgUce0AQqzbW0KvbZEVFgxtx5EFCUVnH6gn8XPtWPc1ZYftWNWfIjHPEPXdSQ/s1280/Oastbrook%20PBf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4qBXbVQNpeJxbeuVOo_GGDYldsRBYFrIzO8sUUoVbaQMVcGC2Pw5gZ-6kCW49RCSkHZee4_S9MapsQlbN0p-uROVPPrB8S_KTNnOcEk6FbkXqLrD41AR3GgdKj2JeKIgUce0AQqzbW0KvbZEVFgxtx5EFCUVnH6gn8XPtWPc1ZYftWNWfIjHPEPXdSQ/w300-h400/Oastbrook%20PBf.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCwSSD4CwlQS_0UbutXYDp0kAv7oCj5JeRPY3-u6bJEuCp3NbQGPGjRnsYEOvT9wARjrrsbjb8NDYLVBdSlzYpv3B--GHqkkGcKdYhDrnFO7-IhLAmJuJruBK-SrisSYBIHUaMS-__TXHIK6bOIIN4l6Pplvjf6dz1Vh76uWVmj-LMAYSeXz0maEcaoA/s1280/Oastbrook%20PBb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCwSSD4CwlQS_0UbutXYDp0kAv7oCj5JeRPY3-u6bJEuCp3NbQGPGjRnsYEOvT9wARjrrsbjb8NDYLVBdSlzYpv3B--GHqkkGcKdYhDrnFO7-IhLAmJuJruBK-SrisSYBIHUaMS-__TXHIK6bOIIN4l6Pplvjf6dz1Vh76uWVmj-LMAYSeXz0maEcaoA/w300-h400/Oastbrook%20PBb.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p>It was a great pleasure to discover so many wines and wineries for the first time at the show. None of these makes it to supermarkets but most are available from certain winemerchants and online or from the cellar doors.<br /></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGJGHU2imJ-wt6-880t5R2aPGm3r2Qe5fJuhLkomqUYmPf8GTwjijqIDgrwOpTSvtCAGvThZaJPc2LS0j-eaVZgoaxmUJhvNI1_vefGIPyfBtLYowC3nOm3u2v2SOySfG-LzsRXdqy8V-yaubEqr3NxBXhm-3u13Ja8pIH44BnAt4IeQIpoHQESvoBAQ/s1280/Penncroftpbf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGJGHU2imJ-wt6-880t5R2aPGm3r2Qe5fJuhLkomqUYmPf8GTwjijqIDgrwOpTSvtCAGvThZaJPc2LS0j-eaVZgoaxmUJhvNI1_vefGIPyfBtLYowC3nOm3u2v2SOySfG-LzsRXdqy8V-yaubEqr3NxBXhm-3u13Ja8pIH44BnAt4IeQIpoHQESvoBAQ/w300-h400/Penncroftpbf.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeFizGln3ETG-ngqmT6qAcRjnQDkfxR22Qxs4-hi7Zo0emjqajS7wI3BufXE3K39JQGKZApDGZOToPk7e6Plbc9OK28oRF2vMeRqmgxWQD-hEBWhWZFoxi3FMo_BTjRJQWViuyeWXU-j7hR-Qm3KYeV0trKRl6Ls2Tco-wjbItd3ycDytuIB7pf_8YGQ/s1280/Penncroftpbb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1280" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeFizGln3ETG-ngqmT6qAcRjnQDkfxR22Qxs4-hi7Zo0emjqajS7wI3BufXE3K39JQGKZApDGZOToPk7e6Plbc9OK28oRF2vMeRqmgxWQD-hEBWhWZFoxi3FMo_BTjRJQWViuyeWXU-j7hR-Qm3KYeV0trKRl6Ls2Tco-wjbItd3ycDytuIB7pf_8YGQ/s320/Penncroftpbb.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>Pinot Blanc and Pinot Gris are not yet mainstream here and some of the earlier attempts have been a bit pale in quality, These gave hope for significant improvements. </p><p>Penn Croft is a marque of Itasca Wines. Itasca buy in grapes mainly ftom Essex but also Somerset and make wine in a cutting-edge facility. they are contract winemakers also for a number of vineyards and provide technical assistance and laboratory services as well.. We will be hearing more from them without doubt. <br /></p><p><u><b>Pinot Gris</b></u></p><p> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX0ge0PhL4v70i6S4XIBtCmsj61JeJGuD_T7tGlnsygfdcZhqKonA2BgPfD-uMNAIe9oM4xG7rrgMY1MF0TMv1NrRi__JRPoSShi1lW5Y6eYv9RjfRr8NoQvM_dEW7zrQvYSiFK5XwAbrUwNARhlTeLHjB6R3bdhV_lVlwf3HAv8AJELtH2CeHQ3DGgQ/s1280/Yotes%20Court%20PGf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX0ge0PhL4v70i6S4XIBtCmsj61JeJGuD_T7tGlnsygfdcZhqKonA2BgPfD-uMNAIe9oM4xG7rrgMY1MF0TMv1NrRi__JRPoSShi1lW5Y6eYv9RjfRr8NoQvM_dEW7zrQvYSiFK5XwAbrUwNARhlTeLHjB6R3bdhV_lVlwf3HAv8AJELtH2CeHQ3DGgQ/s320/Yotes%20Court%20PGf.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4b6A2Vzy-ZalWJA40HIRkvOmQjyBDKe-pXuTH5jOB-mF1LPzLCyYsNQwsXJ3YlYRiglt7iDpOhLTiAPe_UrBAZEW3r6wNmLj1E0XdHXkX4R6BLt-O8F_1i2KypdznEroBcBksPZiSVXRlXVQcayOZzGRuc2zKffIx6I5qc-b6g6nqcKuozUpr7_M86g/s1280/Yotes%20PGb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4b6A2Vzy-ZalWJA40HIRkvOmQjyBDKe-pXuTH5jOB-mF1LPzLCyYsNQwsXJ3YlYRiglt7iDpOhLTiAPe_UrBAZEW3r6wNmLj1E0XdHXkX4R6BLt-O8F_1i2KypdznEroBcBksPZiSVXRlXVQcayOZzGRuc2zKffIx6I5qc-b6g6nqcKuozUpr7_M86g/w300-h400/Yotes%20PGb.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p></p><p>Yotes Court is in Kent, not far from London. They specialise in Pinots Blanc and Gris but also grow Bacchus and Pinot Meunier from which they make a rose. They were awarded WineGB Best Newcomer of the Year 2021and are accredited under the Sustainable Wines of Great Britain (SWGB) Sustainability Scheme.</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8BkGh5Fo1bQszmf_g0PuV-wzs9oNDUXqsocKzG83hPNzrJHepz7BT7yGRggF9TNrW9AtVcOgutc3HzU-iVw0XmcpjPFOaOJjolOnq1ZzAA9IQBFAp83FRfj9foHw3S3SjazUGnjcsTfZrGl839oCzjAZU_e7QEJHuOo3m-njbOIG_9WoRH2HHvvZOBw/s1280/Sheppington%20P%20Grisf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8BkGh5Fo1bQszmf_g0PuV-wzs9oNDUXqsocKzG83hPNzrJHepz7BT7yGRggF9TNrW9AtVcOgutc3HzU-iVw0XmcpjPFOaOJjolOnq1ZzAA9IQBFAp83FRfj9foHw3S3SjazUGnjcsTfZrGl839oCzjAZU_e7QEJHuOo3m-njbOIG_9WoRH2HHvvZOBw/w300-h400/Sheppington%20P%20Grisf.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ8DNuFBNDPi035DeVRpK4gMoWc8tAiCkN7_W48JwgPP1kw4WVOzkl5Ic7aXaPlWhDHffBfg10fjg_-1_pLj6vbNTPMuWrALF20kTpRaAU4th8vfzNLCbXORHVQMFBXs4EB7uOyzH2fCcCNG4sU12rrzNIqBC0XuYHEz85qWQvo1sELR0gxvDZT7LS7Q/s1280/Sheppington%20P%20Grisb.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ8DNuFBNDPi035DeVRpK4gMoWc8tAiCkN7_W48JwgPP1kw4WVOzkl5Ic7aXaPlWhDHffBfg10fjg_-1_pLj6vbNTPMuWrALF20kTpRaAU4th8vfzNLCbXORHVQMFBXs4EB7uOyzH2fCcCNG4sU12rrzNIqBC0XuYHEz85qWQvo1sELR0gxvDZT7LS7Q/w300-h400/Sheppington%20P%20Grisb.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Heppington is a serious East Kent estate with an interesting back story and highly professional operation. They grow the 3 major Champagne varieties for their sparkling wines. Pinot Gris only makes up 10% of the vineyard. You can buy Rose and Pinot Noir as well as the sparklers.<br /></p><p><u><b>Solaris</b></u></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLCHC9JHOSBULXvGWW_8KNAoD48Z1BdhtR7vRqrCcBFGu55zmk2PiDoZOjS7dOG_0LDQXoSSEyUaSncVRNajmhbw_QYYs3wG9ZBYM_tt-2pDps9LTPyo0dD0JCXnWSSzFf-7AAesgaWr6XzQZWwVWuVunWDdrYUBBozs2t2ulHd1eOfTVN84BGtQqqwQ/s1280/Pattingham%20Solarisf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLCHC9JHOSBULXvGWW_8KNAoD48Z1BdhtR7vRqrCcBFGu55zmk2PiDoZOjS7dOG_0LDQXoSSEyUaSncVRNajmhbw_QYYs3wG9ZBYM_tt-2pDps9LTPyo0dD0JCXnWSSzFf-7AAesgaWr6XzQZWwVWuVunWDdrYUBBozs2t2ulHd1eOfTVN84BGtQqqwQ/s320/Pattingham%20Solarisf.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCN621twN0bQBqSza4wCRtYXBKvUHS3NDrXgMRilr2JMRsOySr70gRLdmHL_PUKoGwq7WmbQZyzWIEruVpJzIHH3mCgZoGL4FXCuFegZIp5wjWdvIFGexoMWqa69G_ndKGe6mZHNqEAXu98zVQ_3PkShf1K4ojChj_RWQ983vAWk3e8lKyG8ckJFr3BA/s1280/Pattinghamb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCN621twN0bQBqSza4wCRtYXBKvUHS3NDrXgMRilr2JMRsOySr70gRLdmHL_PUKoGwq7WmbQZyzWIEruVpJzIHH3mCgZoGL4FXCuFegZIp5wjWdvIFGexoMWqa69G_ndKGe6mZHNqEAXu98zVQ_3PkShf1K4ojChj_RWQ983vAWk3e8lKyG8ckJFr3BA/s320/Pattinghamb.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR3gBUoaEEh2612uQ7_otr9BhVaOBVyyThzidXGeJYiXdq7IivIPwbQOypv9TJ9TVdryyFSjdB4Qeek5d6G85F-luwNFj1537M6H46r5Pr_7FzbEoBZ_3Y7uF1n2eWGvDVeVsAKkCrYW-hAcxJCKgiaG7CMlImCywkyMq9VoM4yD3nu6GgEpzZFEAyXw/s1280/Rowton%20Solarisf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR3gBUoaEEh2612uQ7_otr9BhVaOBVyyThzidXGeJYiXdq7IivIPwbQOypv9TJ9TVdryyFSjdB4Qeek5d6G85F-luwNFj1537M6H46r5Pr_7FzbEoBZ_3Y7uF1n2eWGvDVeVsAKkCrYW-hAcxJCKgiaG7CMlImCywkyMq9VoM4yD3nu6GgEpzZFEAyXw/s320/Rowton%20Solarisf.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq6ZcQkhgQbEXF-dpAAjS-MCc9IAzDGsKO5Nh05gtHgNRxRPsidlO0zeNBTeL9HAMVk92fG171rJ-wMrqbXucSrHTgJw7tdi6sY7aCW1YgxojPtL4AsDq1i_n8psHzCk4ikstOHlrgOv5t153I4eP_7O12v6mJik-Wad8-WRg7s29wpMho2wlU-hugeg/s1280/Rowtonb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq6ZcQkhgQbEXF-dpAAjS-MCc9IAzDGsKO5Nh05gtHgNRxRPsidlO0zeNBTeL9HAMVk92fG171rJ-wMrqbXucSrHTgJw7tdi6sY7aCW1YgxojPtL4AsDq1i_n8psHzCk4ikstOHlrgOv5t153I4eP_7O12v6mJik-Wad8-WRg7s29wpMho2wlU-hugeg/s320/Rowtonb.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMK3Txf3zp_fGdQIlai8-imb2Z1vBv7XfSwIw65u4x-EsWh2zr8FjU_8S3rIW6EJDNtRCm8AbKaNxmW4CmMNTsx51_7jcS0tPYdXjvu7a_eIR54CkrGGxefrdkQTR59Qj76Hx4KBirGxWs5uMStJoGKhB4-h25Y_uQ3zJ_EgR10S9vER8A4vbnQeZqHA/s1280/Gwynf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMK3Txf3zp_fGdQIlai8-imb2Z1vBv7XfSwIw65u4x-EsWh2zr8FjU_8S3rIW6EJDNtRCm8AbKaNxmW4CmMNTsx51_7jcS0tPYdXjvu7a_eIR54CkrGGxefrdkQTR59Qj76Hx4KBirGxWs5uMStJoGKhB4-h25Y_uQ3zJ_EgR10S9vER8A4vbnQeZqHA/s320/Gwynf.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtZP_d9wM7LNe91DsRlRfJ574Z2rJL2csmFE7a4vTfE3vNzbuzk02Bevw6wG4iZjh58CvGl3vfsKKyhO7fnIgjaKu97_Hd25Lpv9I78nnXLedx2MNqUWHdcYxSiFlN3BsY6J5QqLCG1fvvDgf0CQsGWJUHBMcnHKXEOLH_bMMo30OHbpm6uwCWk_HHwA/s1280/Gwyns.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtZP_d9wM7LNe91DsRlRfJ574Z2rJL2csmFE7a4vTfE3vNzbuzk02Bevw6wG4iZjh58CvGl3vfsKKyhO7fnIgjaKu97_Hd25Lpv9I78nnXLedx2MNqUWHdcYxSiFlN3BsY6J5QqLCG1fvvDgf0CQsGWJUHBMcnHKXEOLH_bMMo30OHbpm6uwCWk_HHwA/s320/Gwyns.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p><u><b> </b></u></p><p>It was good to see these examples of Solaris. We think this is an excellent variety for our climate. 'Wine Grapes' warns that it can produce 'tooth-rottingly sweet' wines. There is little risk of that here.<u><b><br /></b></u></p><p><u><b>Phoenix</b></u></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRvO99_X3eZUuuN1IyDqO5HLyWPxVU0EqQ9MrEXwDheXcpKXgn7AHnHmLt2FV4QxMIwVmhfZnPeWEtTyCEq4RhL11ONEO0_kZVlMSOCSyn7C_Cwqrx1N6YXru8W2Ox-MPHweiX06-9z1w8L0NfboWpNAcbPfBfHcAdnzYPe8HrEHV_5VS72gWyqlX5GQ/s1280/W.%20Castlef.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRvO99_X3eZUuuN1IyDqO5HLyWPxVU0EqQ9MrEXwDheXcpKXgn7AHnHmLt2FV4QxMIwVmhfZnPeWEtTyCEq4RhL11ONEO0_kZVlMSOCSyn7C_Cwqrx1N6YXru8W2Ox-MPHweiX06-9z1w8L0NfboWpNAcbPfBfHcAdnzYPe8HrEHV_5VS72gWyqlX5GQ/s320/W.%20Castlef.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKaKLOnI-zqfQrEiZtr1nQGUqn5mkti0vBsVy-TlEeDUVUmsovHcVm_gvk4qe2SUjEevXfU20w1jYymPP1zwEKq0K8J1dACCFsO5eVjVjXLkSPK802JBFI8mag5Au8eSM5Dqt_RKxW3YO1WELO3m_gKmsrG2avJyIRooi_haOfoXBLg3Vz2Fy0xl41wQ/s1280/W.%20Castleb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKaKLOnI-zqfQrEiZtr1nQGUqn5mkti0vBsVy-TlEeDUVUmsovHcVm_gvk4qe2SUjEevXfU20w1jYymPP1zwEKq0K8J1dACCFsO5eVjVjXLkSPK802JBFI8mag5Au8eSM5Dqt_RKxW3YO1WELO3m_gKmsrG2avJyIRooi_haOfoXBLg3Vz2Fy0xl41wQ/s320/W.%20Castleb.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p>Good too to see a 100% Phoenix. Of the German (Geilweilerhof) hybrids this is one of the best. It has Bacchus and Villard Blanc as its parents. We have enjoyed the wines of White Castle Vineyard before. Their Siegerrebe is also interesting if not for the faint-hearted. Pinot Noir, Regent, Rondo, Seyval Blanc and Cabernet Franc complete the range. Gwin Gwyn apparently means 'White Wine' in Welsh.<br /></p><p><u><b>Sauvignon Blanc</b></u></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUo8_sp4urZRjyol2dOJMwL4NlHizkP7OqyEyxj2g7gv4JYYqMtUwFBAHvt7LVV-5JuzxjQJJV-oR7jVhe7ZxJMpwNPU0KGIkXpjO7KKlpsR0WjROiCs641QPNvwwH1UURg4jZecOCRKhJef6Y6HmvzY_l9uOnw0Z09eVYgdSZ3WOjx1d4RW1FPLudOA/s1280/Woodchester%20SauvBf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUo8_sp4urZRjyol2dOJMwL4NlHizkP7OqyEyxj2g7gv4JYYqMtUwFBAHvt7LVV-5JuzxjQJJV-oR7jVhe7ZxJMpwNPU0KGIkXpjO7KKlpsR0WjROiCs641QPNvwwH1UURg4jZecOCRKhJef6Y6HmvzY_l9uOnw0Z09eVYgdSZ3WOjx1d4RW1FPLudOA/s320/Woodchester%20SauvBf.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUBsjxQJpKHzMs2WoKWjPN4LyGtIGslbnK2BXfcyu1WoS7US-h6rL2i1kNNN5_pAfPx19bLTwQ2FsJl4TjV8BgTxAgCdGM8hjvC4bXGzhzloY_Zl0Zlkm5Utgc2rUl6C0uCGNQsny5r9MQaeJ22JDYs4obMHgcz7p-UBq_MB74rmYyB6KRK1lEhQW5Xg/s1280/Woodchesterb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUBsjxQJpKHzMs2WoKWjPN4LyGtIGslbnK2BXfcyu1WoS7US-h6rL2i1kNNN5_pAfPx19bLTwQ2FsJl4TjV8BgTxAgCdGM8hjvC4bXGzhzloY_Zl0Zlkm5Utgc2rUl6C0uCGNQsny5r9MQaeJ22JDYs4obMHgcz7p-UBq_MB74rmYyB6KRK1lEhQW5Xg/w300-h400/Woodchesterb.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p></p><p>The only UK Sauvignon Blanc we had seen until now was grown in a walled garden. This one seems not to have needed that protection. <br /></p><p><u><b>Chasselas</b></u></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeHgieHtXq-pDh3y-FBMHO7EXK41rYsyTEKzfpbsB8luAGLnLjzZ_xskwnhqzaRWDVbisardjfTsSP7VTkaI1hI-xiD-bkzlK1NmTtxVjIRO3x6V_zqoYKUOYLx7Ak_fr7TExGGtilWHqgVmlFLgpu1Rk7Avh4Gkvu51p8CQBPJMlxkUnGJGHY8Dp-5w/s1280/Ashdownf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeHgieHtXq-pDh3y-FBMHO7EXK41rYsyTEKzfpbsB8luAGLnLjzZ_xskwnhqzaRWDVbisardjfTsSP7VTkaI1hI-xiD-bkzlK1NmTtxVjIRO3x6V_zqoYKUOYLx7Ak_fr7TExGGtilWHqgVmlFLgpu1Rk7Avh4Gkvu51p8CQBPJMlxkUnGJGHY8Dp-5w/s320/Ashdownf.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsJ923Ca2DNEe01A0e4Zu7y8bnjp9GU5ubBoBVslc40VySMS-vEQ7XMBV67rNtUNmjaM4z8BZcwfrxpBL2_vmGYqGGoM881-SMGkOGJYO-pJwi6a8REYb8i1WD6Sj_rUCCg4oOlK0cQBBKHc0skEy9CO1P2nVJEHS2-jO9BIjmTWUXA7rpWBN4M--lgQ/s1280/Ashdowns.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsJ923Ca2DNEe01A0e4Zu7y8bnjp9GU5ubBoBVslc40VySMS-vEQ7XMBV67rNtUNmjaM4z8BZcwfrxpBL2_vmGYqGGoM881-SMGkOGJYO-pJwi6a8REYb8i1WD6Sj_rUCCg4oOlK0cQBBKHc0skEy9CO1P2nVJEHS2-jO9BIjmTWUXA7rpWBN4M--lgQ/s320/Ashdowns.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p>We had always wondered if Chasselas wouldn't be a go-er in this country and now here was not just a Chasselas but a very good Chasselas from Ashdown just going to prove that there is a future for this variety here. </p><p>In fact this was one of the stars of the show. <br /></p><p><b><u>Muscat/Madeleine Angevine blend</u></b></p><p> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6kx6EkVrvPuxvLuk8Noox4Xr9docOD8jEwwtHPE6yttkkOiU5oMJsFHnffiZ9tcyOT06dKIhukrkK8qwfl4gwBlOqkoiIN-9aELKw-iJw5qxzzBY1lraCGMJ_9302Od2xTD7BjfE8TkTb_Qc7aasMMdK1TP4hLqWPWcMcOq5mwjsP89OnFdmEKeHv5g/s1280/Renishawf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6kx6EkVrvPuxvLuk8Noox4Xr9docOD8jEwwtHPE6yttkkOiU5oMJsFHnffiZ9tcyOT06dKIhukrkK8qwfl4gwBlOqkoiIN-9aELKw-iJw5qxzzBY1lraCGMJ_9302Od2xTD7BjfE8TkTb_Qc7aasMMdK1TP4hLqWPWcMcOq5mwjsP89OnFdmEKeHv5g/w300-h400/Renishawf.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUnCgf1m5bFESBzx9c_izvYpaEeRYyXswAEEu1046r16iM3QMiZzU65EGkWBtsB2Ik3DNTXHlpkAo7cbaZhIlCSsN_kVbJ4z5-4VH6IUcZ0crCmT0KjvVhUgkgVEBoSQIgBseIqKHFvINv8TLbKYg89jOPM3VoKnuPaiAGstM986cgfghc7lFtMLbVNA/s1280/Renishawb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUnCgf1m5bFESBzx9c_izvYpaEeRYyXswAEEu1046r16iM3QMiZzU65EGkWBtsB2Ik3DNTXHlpkAo7cbaZhIlCSsN_kVbJ4z5-4VH6IUcZ0crCmT0KjvVhUgkgVEBoSQIgBseIqKHFvINv8TLbKYg89jOPM3VoKnuPaiAGstM986cgfghc7lFtMLbVNA/w300-h400/Renishawb.jpg" width="300" /></a></div> <p></p><p>Truly amazing; Muscat from what was once the most northerly vineyard in the world and now the second. Renishaw Hall is on the Derbyshire/South Yorkshire border and was planted in 1972. There is also Madeleine Angevin in the blend. It tastes well too.<br /></p><p><u><b>Pinot Noir</b></u></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg-Q4YXkzTdXQNSUvH28aLdFeJDNqCGuUrw_xwiJKKgiAEMTO6GdVlq7PhGEtY_2i0sPGUKH0MKV0KyaiotQnzNCJvJuJpQlCec0QEJjKdvtRA9OvIKYpG4FmPoOeRGcXvLHNBj-h2Cwj5Ytf99NpWebVDRXaB8-iWUmKrIAq-R23u109nGW828Xm5LQ/s1280/Chalk%20Bedf.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg-Q4YXkzTdXQNSUvH28aLdFeJDNqCGuUrw_xwiJKKgiAEMTO6GdVlq7PhGEtY_2i0sPGUKH0MKV0KyaiotQnzNCJvJuJpQlCec0QEJjKdvtRA9OvIKYpG4FmPoOeRGcXvLHNBj-h2Cwj5Ytf99NpWebVDRXaB8-iWUmKrIAq-R23u109nGW828Xm5LQ/w300-h400/Chalk%20Bedf.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv0PveuIN0MvQ9dOKF1wWhQI8FbIO48XMFsv8nm6NSuNDABq-m0rDhgJHpvAVxcu0Yr45AGdE_7GdB0vuWCVN8ZA4uy-bbJqXYbhQ6xOusjGscrZKxIdVctOKhZk4FS1NO_aUfiRenMnDyqpEJIlK_qIuZKsW3HSH3t6YJ4lFGf-FSJOu_vJPxyLGRWg/s1280/Chalk%20Bed%20b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv0PveuIN0MvQ9dOKF1wWhQI8FbIO48XMFsv8nm6NSuNDABq-m0rDhgJHpvAVxcu0Yr45AGdE_7GdB0vuWCVN8ZA4uy-bbJqXYbhQ6xOusjGscrZKxIdVctOKhZk4FS1NO_aUfiRenMnDyqpEJIlK_qIuZKsW3HSH3t6YJ4lFGf-FSJOu_vJPxyLGRWg/s320/Chalk%20Bed%20b.jpg" width="240" /></a></div></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Burn Valley Estate is just off the North Norfolk coast. Grapes grown include Pinot Noir Precoce, Rondo, Regent, Pinot Noir, Bacchus, Chardonnay, Solaris, Seyval Blanc and Schonburger. <br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2OGeROMwBy8F9bOhrqiLw894mzvqiNJOLRCGM-ICdCooNBuPBONBS1SUkPUVhttevTXWmAVpwlYWoBNYzN-JovvSTE9mTVx8NWbB152oOreeWe46hA7L18NhVdTA6gnW-aP5xapydObVR_Glb2JjAgZcg6pIAbM-fQW1PtG-ZvzvOlsBGaxKB_5AsIg/s200/Charthamf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="150" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2OGeROMwBy8F9bOhrqiLw894mzvqiNJOLRCGM-ICdCooNBuPBONBS1SUkPUVhttevTXWmAVpwlYWoBNYzN-JovvSTE9mTVx8NWbB152oOreeWe46hA7L18NhVdTA6gnW-aP5xapydObVR_Glb2JjAgZcg6pIAbM-fQW1PtG-ZvzvOlsBGaxKB_5AsIg/w300-h400/Charthamf.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p></p><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtWuyFoNaXwC_9TkmSENHO0R5pGE3zg1fInFpW4qI0kDj1at5sSHa5ClVP9wIyTxGd3HhcJzcqBX6HN1ywFYeeTEIPHSIG2fSBuHzm0U4ijN8VYVCa2u6e2SS9CP2yWClPCow4-7YgOO0dtNJG8VlKMElHzfKFVXWhs9WqGI_phVeWrxW0AvTod_HTsg/s1280/Charthamb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtWuyFoNaXwC_9TkmSENHO0R5pGE3zg1fInFpW4qI0kDj1at5sSHa5ClVP9wIyTxGd3HhcJzcqBX6HN1ywFYeeTEIPHSIG2fSBuHzm0U4ijN8VYVCa2u6e2SS9CP2yWClPCow4-7YgOO0dtNJG8VlKMElHzfKFVXWhs9WqGI_phVeWrxW0AvTod_HTsg/w300-h400/Charthamb.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p>Another Kent vineyard, winemaking in the area has a long if interrupted history;</p><h4>Long history of viticulture in Chartham, Kent.</h4>
<p>The Domesday Book mentions several vineyards in East Kent, including
Chartham, and there is evidence of wine trading between the manors. The
wine produced in these Kentish vineyards was probably a sour variety and
needed to be sweetened with blackberry wine. In spite of its sourness
and the uncertain yield in this northern climate, the number of
vineyards increased through to the 13th century. In 1303 Prior Henry of
Eastry built a manor at Deanery Farm and established vineyards.
Records show that Prior Henry’s vineyard at Chartham incurred
considerable costs of maintenance; </p>
<p><b>1286</b> Repairing the winery, 66 shillings and 7 1/2 pence<br />
<b>1292</b> New gate for vineyard with palings, 67 shillings and 3 pence<br />
<b>1297</b> Repairing the winery with appurtenances plus new stables, £30, 19 shillings and 6 pence<br />
<b>1310</b> New press house and cart house, £6, 3 shillings and 2 pence.</p>
<p>At this time the renowned Sir Robert de Septvans was active
in the area as Constable of Rochester Castle, with the responsibility
for controlling flooding and drainage in Kent and Sussex. He died in
1304 and his burial in Chartham church is marked by one of the greatest
monumental brasses in the country. He stands in chain mail, richly
ornamented, with seven winnowing fans (Septvans) and a lion at his feet.</p>
<p>The marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1152
created a vast kingdom which included the best vineyards of France,
resulting in the gradual reduction of English wine production due to
easy access to French wines. The onset of the Little Ice Age in the
mid-13th century led to cooler summers, and the Black Death which
followed in the mid-14th century led to a huge reduction in agricultural
labour, yet another setback to viticulture in this country.</p><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOsjXQjWENil9YArObuVHPBr_7CGsu9w4ff5kwbhmwyieSTnAXytcEv1K_AQ8hnmExRfEGd372qyB5IimLxKjmcxP9JZy6Ecyub1d5XaTMFoRHSP9EQqaL4qwcP5WrFdLuGVKiGsaYu-arg-sD_kXoS1dG0V4xPews2Yhy-WDsulWN9QTFzbM3wM5faw/s1280/BWf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOsjXQjWENil9YArObuVHPBr_7CGsu9w4ff5kwbhmwyieSTnAXytcEv1K_AQ8hnmExRfEGd372qyB5IimLxKjmcxP9JZy6Ecyub1d5XaTMFoRHSP9EQqaL4qwcP5WrFdLuGVKiGsaYu-arg-sD_kXoS1dG0V4xPews2Yhy-WDsulWN9QTFzbM3wM5faw/s320/BWf.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTg-O-Lf357aSbr8wFT7IGEExrvzf0hX_xAGY0UHb4lZnTiqsBw_5FuuuI8B1gwA5e756Zi5I4Hwnkuce5v0dTOzGvnO77-eIddpno5P5UkzpR1fapJVzTEBWMpY1CF9tr00P9YiO8Z3_-9qgyF_R6PscZVtUb5oK6BNY5MjBLwVhL78HHhrUrAgU59Q/s1280/BWb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTg-O-Lf357aSbr8wFT7IGEExrvzf0hX_xAGY0UHb4lZnTiqsBw_5FuuuI8B1gwA5e756Zi5I4Hwnkuce5v0dTOzGvnO77-eIddpno5P5UkzpR1fapJVzTEBWMpY1CF9tr00P9YiO8Z3_-9qgyF_R6PscZVtUb5oK6BNY5MjBLwVhL78HHhrUrAgU59Q/s320/BWb.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p>Grapes are Bacchus, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris.<br /></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK3czUzXfT57a01LKgyOgG-V2wvvaRrTA8jCn1YRR0_Ijtc1w0M7LME5rvQwVgyoFnnHut47nElShiIuV8PKpGsUs0xKUWmRAU2G216zAD_fkddAZIuqAZL6JAtuwgQFPezaMQGDJKEUId1k06Xgc05uOAFCl1Hrzhs1L8-T-hw-sGs7UmO68_RByGIQ/w300-h400/Brightwellf.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="300" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brightwell is well-known in Oxfordshire.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK3czUzXfT57a01LKgyOgG-V2wvvaRrTA8jCn1YRR0_Ijtc1w0M7LME5rvQwVgyoFnnHut47nElShiIuV8PKpGsUs0xKUWmRAU2G216zAD_fkddAZIuqAZL6JAtuwgQFPezaMQGDJKEUId1k06Xgc05uOAFCl1Hrzhs1L8-T-hw-sGs7UmO68_RByGIQ/s1280/Brightwellf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div>Brightwell grapes are Bacchus, Chardonnay, Huxelrebe, Dornfelder and Pinot Noir.the vineyard was founded in 1980. To be still going strong the must have been doing something right,<br /><p></p><p>Given that most UK wineries make sparkling wine these days, it is not surprising that Pinot Noir is often the grape of choice for still red wines. Inevitably some are better than others. We have found some really good Pinot Noirs from the lokes of Simpson and Flint but they can be neutral, even watery and not worth the price in some cases.<br /></p><p>No dobt people will master this variety. Already things are going in the right direction. We would like to see some more Pinot Meuniers too or Pinot Noir/ Pinot Meunier blends maybe?<br /></p><p><u><b>Rondo</b></u></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEiGlTZ5ahVzvA8ItwkwPDbURDwPr2-yFB6fFu6UGsme5LkK3ZaUGFP2Dr-Fb8rM5llEQr9Y5at3wTSWKJj7Md4OouzbySxxsc5rwxOrZ2nP3uW_QXH23jCC8PdZaFIAsWN3sq1C8OxTrG0ynETMBaTqefA5teWCNfqDYY5lL3G92MIf1uwNw2ygRVqQ/s1280/Litle%20Woldf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEiGlTZ5ahVzvA8ItwkwPDbURDwPr2-yFB6fFu6UGsme5LkK3ZaUGFP2Dr-Fb8rM5llEQr9Y5at3wTSWKJj7Md4OouzbySxxsc5rwxOrZ2nP3uW_QXH23jCC8PdZaFIAsWN3sq1C8OxTrG0ynETMBaTqefA5teWCNfqDYY5lL3G92MIf1uwNw2ygRVqQ/w300-h400/Litle%20Woldf.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDKm47KUj-aaszW9TWXaiIg2KKtrV6LllNLvrL1l0dUuQN3l8eyGJYMDhCmSsNwXdDue4RgqJ8hKDrHs52CDDaJGVW3T-hHj5tlD_bjkDk5a2KKS7EbbzklB_4gvdYRNwCFp1mICfRRqBQUxR5O-yExL6vk682ZPnf2_JsX7S9tZgEsM53aLEBWywBbg/s1280/Little%20Woldb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Green is another quite northerly English vineyard - quite near
Wolverhampton. They are a well established concern with an excellent
website and quite a few retailers stocking their wines. They have almost 30 acres
and 16 varieties. This is a blend of Rondo, Regent and Pinot Noir. the other grapes grown on the estate include Bacchus, Chardonnay, Huxelrebe, Madeleine Angevine, Schonburger, Seyval Blanc and Reichensteiner among others.</p><p><u><b>Dornfelder</b></u><br /></p><p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr_1S6kYHHsBIlTenHv42MA7ijKS2zLUA8hhhlZOSgI2f-3FqV-Dq2llNsLwUbSWZAG7FM86R_p6jgJ0I3hNnAv-iywVAp2v6kt85HSSbSXxFFEKEyDqh0b1TUFsRTmEg9bvOkkRcZAaZSZcwR3Bqj8Vvk0h7PGOorXIaweDIp70dHWA_YQzu9kYMrqQ/s1280/Dornfelderf2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr_1S6kYHHsBIlTenHv42MA7ijKS2zLUA8hhhlZOSgI2f-3FqV-Dq2llNsLwUbSWZAG7FM86R_p6jgJ0I3hNnAv-iywVAp2v6kt85HSSbSXxFFEKEyDqh0b1TUFsRTmEg9bvOkkRcZAaZSZcwR3Bqj8Vvk0h7PGOorXIaweDIp70dHWA_YQzu9kYMrqQ/w300-h400/Dornfelderf2.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Apologies for fuzzy image but it is Biddenden's Dornfelder.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p>Good old Biddenden!<br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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This was only the 2nd year but it looked as if it had been going for a great deal longer. It is organsied by the team behind The Vineyard Magazine who have done an outstanding job. Wine GB host their seminars.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGpDFvVcJk6GZG2_rLnPRWfF90fv4l52lrSd9anUd_o_3_ZoGBH3pwLN52LC7xgjOs4oFO8z63ZztPIa1JVf-09l7NDvr3ZByrHWNgvqcd8HZqJjfeKcj1bivslDUI4GkTRYYajZlV9daGmc0S58Hn6MarUuxlVq1ig0YQCc156Bgw5y8N00ynLzr-8Q/s1280/V%20crowd.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGpDFvVcJk6GZG2_rLnPRWfF90fv4l52lrSd9anUd_o_3_ZoGBH3pwLN52LC7xgjOs4oFO8z63ZztPIa1JVf-09l7NDvr3ZByrHWNgvqcd8HZqJjfeKcj1bivslDUI4GkTRYYajZlV9daGmc0S58Hn6MarUuxlVq1ig0YQCc156Bgw5y8N00ynLzr-8Q/s320/V%20crowd.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>As you will see below the show covers everything you could possibly want to buy in setting up your vineyard and making or selling your wine.</p><p> </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1LQAFVotv9D4XV-McIJlFMAfMlV24Ukf1aZutWU6HYHUtNIX7uF4LVG3mLDGwMbSHZOyuSG1Z99mPA1hB_8547AaRA2xP5D7NZXF8TuE7H1Akr8mVCQUc5ZkHqDLorPLl9be834ElDyeRDE-P9tkkvLVQfXDJk8PHxULGsW5Q6AQJ1GFH64odSrXRtw/s320/V%20Packaging.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bottles and packaging<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinc1n6hI4FOJylFI-AIAAFrtqWtWkpiilIDecgEKdZTHuRY-hqmcpEdXt0_TEiX4nDyze8gHZNM_kludRf5e65QnChOzeyb6JIlsbkB6T-uhJkD8jt8M58WZvvBAZ7l97LshTLGFoz7KG_u2WXyCnWc45UQS5UhKsE9d06hlO1fyHvkef39btss5jhFA/s1280/V%20Machinery5.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkai_8CrrAz_Zo1WhXUFLjEmgc-knbxEb2xTffm7PUtyrJD10BotASvc4cVD_VMqGQ2VHrQw7DRMYqRt2XOzAJsjgSpMlww2r4QexAp36ASm0By9zFrBci6LtI4HtXRVR6l6bak3kQgQOUqAoe5aUjJYgWpXCmXToVwoJIvZjIl2uZkdMGSjQ5qcpN6Q/s1280/V%20Machinery3.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkai_8CrrAz_Zo1WhXUFLjEmgc-knbxEb2xTffm7PUtyrJD10BotASvc4cVD_VMqGQ2VHrQw7DRMYqRt2XOzAJsjgSpMlww2r4QexAp36ASm0By9zFrBci6LtI4HtXRVR6l6bak3kQgQOUqAoe5aUjJYgWpXCmXToVwoJIvZjIl2uZkdMGSjQ5qcpN6Q/s320/V%20Machinery3.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Machinery</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHBMxG6vsf2vi-Wd2l4GPfYRYo-MJpX2H370Q-QtthsIJMJ5MnMBjvD2ZdkJaSoU4v29dX120U1KST3g9BbhnfDi6Xj05fnEqxhh8HzuF_WESxBuvw2E9_egTJfM9RouA5oYPwNL-GAVBu7jZI8HGuwV7aUXxUmmJU8YTzYjJ-VZ9JfUeivvvg--31TQ/s1280/V%20Machinery2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHBMxG6vsf2vi-Wd2l4GPfYRYo-MJpX2H370Q-QtthsIJMJ5MnMBjvD2ZdkJaSoU4v29dX120U1KST3g9BbhnfDi6Xj05fnEqxhh8HzuF_WESxBuvw2E9_egTJfM9RouA5oYPwNL-GAVBu7jZI8HGuwV7aUXxUmmJU8YTzYjJ-VZ9JfUeivvvg--31TQ/s320/V%20Machinery2.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tractors</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRmnBsHyU6ryT1eAveD7LVz8LVvcuQZPDt8J9tOx9cbUxpO-BkXElnlonBdwqZUImCtssRBXpbrUyliKcUMvz97l0_hzXH9DpJRSO8qBZicHFe4CfyTdBtEgf2O1ulmSJytja4yD1evmc1gibPnTQOODsi37EBvY7bx4-kTRoOuYjnaAPrpAMeT0m6kg/s1280/V%20Machinery1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRmnBsHyU6ryT1eAveD7LVz8LVvcuQZPDt8J9tOx9cbUxpO-BkXElnlonBdwqZUImCtssRBXpbrUyliKcUMvz97l0_hzXH9DpJRSO8qBZicHFe4CfyTdBtEgf2O1ulmSJytja4yD1evmc1gibPnTQOODsi37EBvY7bx4-kTRoOuYjnaAPrpAMeT0m6kg/s320/V%20Machinery1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More machinery<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQaIiumw5uURes5dpC0Qzj6dlGgVKHux3nAwl_VxCyAezPfRBQgprNubZyvZrxkytr4_5FwK99J4aBC94uspbabsv1_Mp2awSqCXQQIPf8RS3w_JbwHqIErJvMGdKloZkaoRt8lrQVZ7NHCaeYB-MR7l-0tCV7TyxfdQuH4FPZW3igyDxl-dxH4K9Lsg/s1280/V%20Labelling.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQaIiumw5uURes5dpC0Qzj6dlGgVKHux3nAwl_VxCyAezPfRBQgprNubZyvZrxkytr4_5FwK99J4aBC94uspbabsv1_Mp2awSqCXQQIPf8RS3w_JbwHqIErJvMGdKloZkaoRt8lrQVZ7NHCaeYB-MR7l-0tCV7TyxfdQuH4FPZW3igyDxl-dxH4K9Lsg/s320/V%20Labelling.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Labelling</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGE3AjJaZUgV2VCvwCnsBPvGjdnVrNb0PDav9uHRGHaJDxMB5AwPuZ8uNMEAvyV1G7lM-890tx3as3swYVJsO0B7mAJ-zq4s4fVqnPYzTxKo5ZGY9Nla5Lj9opaNLJWxqkcE2WDVjGheJ8IR2VgSreVrsmQZbtuaVuzoXSHrf41IQsMJRO0_9CJxdPcQ/s1280/V%20Guillaume.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGE3AjJaZUgV2VCvwCnsBPvGjdnVrNb0PDav9uHRGHaJDxMB5AwPuZ8uNMEAvyV1G7lM-890tx3as3swYVJsO0B7mAJ-zq4s4fVqnPYzTxKo5ZGY9Nla5Lj9opaNLJWxqkcE2WDVjGheJ8IR2VgSreVrsmQZbtuaVuzoXSHrf41IQsMJRO0_9CJxdPcQ/s320/V%20Guillaume.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pepinieres Guillaume, vine nursery (see below)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOKtOowZuvn904twVxrj1Z6rnpc1If1sCRk1mRBRUcBP5zSxESEK4eAbPr7gUkI0NH3QevyU2tSRa6nYi1K-F8xXCuE9Ngy0TWVswBzAEIWR0NUMHggLZCwNkxWhkfpqNHHeQUaEBz04AXm6372o7gfGQvgZvA0T0ud8a-JvjSTGjhZaZbtMHLrJehwA/s1280/V%20Freytag%20himself.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOKtOowZuvn904twVxrj1Z6rnpc1If1sCRk1mRBRUcBP5zSxESEK4eAbPr7gUkI0NH3QevyU2tSRa6nYi1K-F8xXCuE9Ngy0TWVswBzAEIWR0NUMHggLZCwNkxWhkfpqNHHeQUaEBz04AXm6372o7gfGQvgZvA0T0ud8a-JvjSTGjhZaZbtMHLrJehwA/s320/V%20Freytag%20himself.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rebschule Freytag, wine nursery. That's Mr. Freytag on the right. More below.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXlYR_en7lep4O0JZF_LHGxtJKKdDABZjvz-us-37yfChljAfKJssGYplq1Whu5xZj6GEV52YZ48VsJbF14pZNjD6GKvB2Kzoq63zQHJPX7lCuJomuTijHxWpzZ5Fm9N-gFjfK_fGfMrIl80RMiHs5-_9ApAOmK54IvRIeedUTJWy6EIeeZg24vrgwAw/s1280/V%20Fermentis%20Yeasts.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXlYR_en7lep4O0JZF_LHGxtJKKdDABZjvz-us-37yfChljAfKJssGYplq1Whu5xZj6GEV52YZ48VsJbF14pZNjD6GKvB2Kzoq63zQHJPX7lCuJomuTijHxWpzZ5Fm9N-gFjfK_fGfMrIl80RMiHs5-_9ApAOmK54IvRIeedUTJWy6EIeeZg24vrgwAw/s320/V%20Fermentis%20Yeasts.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fermentation yeasts<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaTwroppnzxkROxSDCb8v6d9WluZPgEGbHoh7T3MK0-oJQDetQGSSkSBtj7lVMifYzxg_bM-AfU7EgA52onLDl2wl9ek5nj6EveCWo7napTS1btVChZFUiffgVaxHAVjTCb3uhJt7txIiKsX3AoqcNlh9QgugeJXKRVrCP8KKDjpOlBuLywNhsxelCLw/s1280/V%20Corking%20machine.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaTwroppnzxkROxSDCb8v6d9WluZPgEGbHoh7T3MK0-oJQDetQGSSkSBtj7lVMifYzxg_bM-AfU7EgA52onLDl2wl9ek5nj6EveCWo7napTS1btVChZFUiffgVaxHAVjTCb3uhJt7txIiKsX3AoqcNlh9QgugeJXKRVrCP8KKDjpOlBuLywNhsxelCLw/s320/V%20Corking%20machine.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bottling machine<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtHY0ah-a4ewRLp8-Mzl5bRG6np-bVCMyaYsRis80MIF2mHGAJbwxzcuuHcPl0Oti7y__N5hppUZhERV9BryKm0Npc7ozL6khrqVz00lkj_ok7QAtm2niv0nwa7pACdKAssP9-WhUGi0aU-hw1cRZWlVKeoz6SbMFMlFvvY2BgnqEcVhZaeXeIGaWjAQ/s1280/V%20Closures.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtHY0ah-a4ewRLp8-Mzl5bRG6np-bVCMyaYsRis80MIF2mHGAJbwxzcuuHcPl0Oti7y__N5hppUZhERV9BryKm0Npc7ozL6khrqVz00lkj_ok7QAtm2niv0nwa7pACdKAssP9-WhUGi0aU-hw1cRZWlVKeoz6SbMFMlFvvY2BgnqEcVhZaeXeIGaWjAQ/s320/V%20Closures.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Corks and closures<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeb6R1IBcqWHckI2x235RfGJNqnOpYXdSU85AfcLJxmxyN3HeyB5N-DWnof_KkxFfvsxxjv0jrSwBeMwvhFwkEMqOMoSyQS5YBu4axwvPrE64IlnHArKyXN1cfxcYLKFewMg44rRZ6h2pDP80zBmpnKopFZchHWehATw-rljF387z2ukKXseSxCGE2JA/s1280/V%20Bio%20Max%20sprays.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeb6R1IBcqWHckI2x235RfGJNqnOpYXdSU85AfcLJxmxyN3HeyB5N-DWnof_KkxFfvsxxjv0jrSwBeMwvhFwkEMqOMoSyQS5YBu4axwvPrE64IlnHArKyXN1cfxcYLKFewMg44rRZ6h2pDP80zBmpnKopFZchHWehATw-rljF387z2ukKXseSxCGE2JA/s320/V%20Bio%20Max%20sprays.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sprays</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCpKkMtxJQqJX8GkFSrKN5Z0_wcdjfdoiYjj70ZnLx-OTv9WOMyM2Opm2tHLuySxivyNfMu4VKCfQ4v6twD_JGwMHeN5o0d1VneuYOg6iGnbxYjsDBNRADf90mLDoB3dWw62MVh1WuUqTRmnki0uhQqreyJ0ZMfQgljLJwq8zAScZIr5RhxS7Y6mhh0w/s1280/V%20Egg.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCpKkMtxJQqJX8GkFSrKN5Z0_wcdjfdoiYjj70ZnLx-OTv9WOMyM2Opm2tHLuySxivyNfMu4VKCfQ4v6twD_JGwMHeN5o0d1VneuYOg6iGnbxYjsDBNRADf90mLDoB3dWw62MVh1WuUqTRmnki0uhQqreyJ0ZMfQgljLJwq8zAScZIr5RhxS7Y6mhh0w/s320/V%20Egg.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fermentation vessels<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXdRWSHlUUQPVbntJmDDq19-pnsJCd-XvbQKN6XomjT40KIT5cHkzKdr2sn-5MJ0tAyEFIGN3KNu--soZ0nS9w_p24mjfRVXAV-7eyaElmbimq6L0BfCKxNdua-eNR0ol-mdtbLv2L9SBNrlDd7X_13GhPuYkjwMBxoUGgWipDWRhEKs8PK_WK6w6vbQ/s1280/V%20Kent%20Wine%20School.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXdRWSHlUUQPVbntJmDDq19-pnsJCd-XvbQKN6XomjT40KIT5cHkzKdr2sn-5MJ0tAyEFIGN3KNu--soZ0nS9w_p24mjfRVXAV-7eyaElmbimq6L0BfCKxNdua-eNR0ol-mdtbLv2L9SBNrlDd7X_13GhPuYkjwMBxoUGgWipDWRhEKs8PK_WK6w6vbQ/w400-h300/V%20Kent%20Wine%20School.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Education</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>As well as all this hardware and technical stuff, there were seminars and tastings of over 100 wines, half of which were sparkling and half still - all from England and Wales.<br /></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcOFyHr950-1e_kcaf8YJN-zuNRYS9HQQdqml3706sl7FKV92ODbpvdweXoC8ZWE5Ea6HCIEwCq9Dta12yU5nBtVfmgdDQZ5sKVE5T78t_xIlfZEKiCiFVoHXR9LLktM7E1fRcylgMUmhEVB6DOhjyxwwQHv7S2L8LZuGWO5b3D95O-MgSzEoR-Sp7wA/s1280/V%20Jukes%20tasting%20sign.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcOFyHr950-1e_kcaf8YJN-zuNRYS9HQQdqml3706sl7FKV92ODbpvdweXoC8ZWE5Ea6HCIEwCq9Dta12yU5nBtVfmgdDQZ5sKVE5T78t_xIlfZEKiCiFVoHXR9LLktM7E1fRcylgMUmhEVB6DOhjyxwwQHv7S2L8LZuGWO5b3D95O-MgSzEoR-Sp7wA/w400-h300/V%20Jukes%20tasting%20sign.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Structured Wine Tasting hosted by Matthew Jukes<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4IzV3bmp03BcqswtWbh2xBsBK1A_7KaEAUJO1jBhr_7C6ImPfsP1TBIrEabBoKd_TXajr7igFz_abQzKVzwOPLeUFq3FghZRol91DD-t0Ll0mzQqFLhVlP-zRjQvtl93k7rKmbosnPKHGPZJov3qTdoPK_Eb6mDVWcOxX4QrO_4NQj8kBay5OsjM4GQ/s1280/V%20Jukes%20event.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4IzV3bmp03BcqswtWbh2xBsBK1A_7KaEAUJO1jBhr_7C6ImPfsP1TBIrEabBoKd_TXajr7igFz_abQzKVzwOPLeUFq3FghZRol91DD-t0Ll0mzQqFLhVlP-zRjQvtl93k7rKmbosnPKHGPZJov3qTdoPK_Eb6mDVWcOxX4QrO_4NQj8kBay5OsjM4GQ/s320/V%20Jukes%20event.jpg" width="240" /></a></div> <p></p><p>Normally Wine Fairs only comprise seminars and tastings<b> <span style="font-size: medium;">but we think it essential that anyone interested in wine should have some idea of what it takes to make it both in the vineyard and in the winery. This show gives you the opportunity to get an insight into what is involved and to rub shoulders with not only the people who make the wine but also those who toil in the vineyard.</span></b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjknoXFBSr1-fUrADQgIjIVqjg0rUFy9_zMmi0GlPMg4bZbeaWbIxYhjPz9lJ0XD5Hteks8OGKaN37252z6lzncW2Y7GQ0HLlq7RCRGo8ryzm7udLRqSuZjUlmD-2DQzwuLhKGfd1gQAKo4uvaArzYw8DnnCLTpRYkPmJSqBD0ICt9hgkf7hBr2qdNuVw/s1280/V%20Sam.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjknoXFBSr1-fUrADQgIjIVqjg0rUFy9_zMmi0GlPMg4bZbeaWbIxYhjPz9lJ0XD5Hteks8OGKaN37252z6lzncW2Y7GQ0HLlq7RCRGo8ryzm7udLRqSuZjUlmD-2DQzwuLhKGfd1gQAKo4uvaArzYw8DnnCLTpRYkPmJSqBD0ICt9hgkf7hBr2qdNuVw/s320/V%20Sam.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our friend Sam Doncaster was officiating at the Freytag stand.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>We covered only the still wines of England and Wales but before we report on those we should mention the two vine nurseries who had come to the show from abroad, Rebschule Freytag and Pepinieres Guillaume<br /></p><p>Freytag actually brought some of their wines for tasting at their stand; these were the only foreign wines at the fair as far as we could tell and very interesting they were too.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRe82xfmB2phbhx7PNC9DJiDT8Wc2HSsUxSjUlCYafF2HioeSozYG5tfOaEjhrc_Z2GVAqxD0elZywX0EGPDFc9iWfMCu1AH3vQONwnAmP_T4f-PYkyNyKEC1wlp5jvYNBF4_SxeaDqJ-satV2lBjSLAet8VStpae9Lz4rSHVcGGDxTV-kHgiEOcZVzg/s1280/V%20Rinot.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRe82xfmB2phbhx7PNC9DJiDT8Wc2HSsUxSjUlCYafF2HioeSozYG5tfOaEjhrc_Z2GVAqxD0elZywX0EGPDFc9iWfMCu1AH3vQONwnAmP_T4f-PYkyNyKEC1wlp5jvYNBF4_SxeaDqJ-satV2lBjSLAet8VStpae9Lz4rSHVcGGDxTV-kHgiEOcZVzg/w300-h400/V%20Rinot.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxMWlEfQiP1qpJsKN64T9gFisprXXv0y2LKzlUy6_nbEex_mgOG-r1kzdKmulW3D3XZmwWQGOtxqFpYkJ5unpCtR5aCvtlbr6omWru9O-NweFQd9wF4hsIhUB02twrbLruSK4L6cpjPYd6leq6acOV04cpkWqQIAzdIyfJ4dbeU1nZdz9pVUrjpA-ZKw/s1280/V%20Rinotb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxMWlEfQiP1qpJsKN64T9gFisprXXv0y2LKzlUy6_nbEex_mgOG-r1kzdKmulW3D3XZmwWQGOtxqFpYkJ5unpCtR5aCvtlbr6omWru9O-NweFQd9wF4hsIhUB02twrbLruSK4L6cpjPYd6leq6acOV04cpkWqQIAzdIyfJ4dbeU1nZdz9pVUrjpA-ZKw/w300-h400/V%20Rinotb.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p>Rinot is a Czech hybrid from Merzling and Syve Villard x Pinot Gris. Absolutely delicious. This should catch on.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx3Zn4vTwR0Flo0YtFTrhkBOZgvOy-SO-V4wvKx50HhHTskOufmU8UChzqg3YpVDOypjIcinzRTIgHBLmSnmNRhaWtLYuRGx6DQVwmtiDQt1WnSvfUUmw2YzAlmm5_ImPVvedWKJU0V2QQyhJGWK6AgRRfGUts-I5rBhzfzrroRj_qb72vCPqdi0bQrA/s1280/V%20Cabaret%20Noirf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx3Zn4vTwR0Flo0YtFTrhkBOZgvOy-SO-V4wvKx50HhHTskOufmU8UChzqg3YpVDOypjIcinzRTIgHBLmSnmNRhaWtLYuRGx6DQVwmtiDQt1WnSvfUUmw2YzAlmm5_ImPVvedWKJU0V2QQyhJGWK6AgRRfGUts-I5rBhzfzrroRj_qb72vCPqdi0bQrA/s320/V%20Cabaret%20Noirf.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p>The other wine we tasted was a Cbaret Noir (formerly Cabernet Noir) from Alois Metz (Pfalz). Cabaret Noir already has caught on so much so that Mr. freytag wasn't sure he would be able to provide us with even a small amount to plug vineyard gaps next year.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2El9Yilo_8_c7EcLNjsGkPIL263GcKxbieVaizkoWMaezY5KUmJihcxZV0ndakuGfqXxgz_RUBUI-bxnPeg3aIChCTgDvNpLpa7_ZMRqBccubB0q5gcoUtv_Muii2PZM9kirv3wR0OIz265NUibN_cV4fc_YT_f5CkKSFrtz2kWNCPZ13l2Z5eLnkQA/s1280/v%20freytag%20list.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2El9Yilo_8_c7EcLNjsGkPIL263GcKxbieVaizkoWMaezY5KUmJihcxZV0ndakuGfqXxgz_RUBUI-bxnPeg3aIChCTgDvNpLpa7_ZMRqBccubB0q5gcoUtv_Muii2PZM9kirv3wR0OIz265NUibN_cV4fc_YT_f5CkKSFrtz2kWNCPZ13l2Z5eLnkQA/w300-h400/v%20freytag%20list.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p>Freytag provide resistant vines to numerous vineyards in Germany and abroad. They had brought wines from clients using the following grape varieties;</p><p>Sauvignac<span> </span></p><p><span>Cabernet Blanc</span></p><p><span>Rinot</span></p><p><span>Cabernet Jura</span></p><p><span>Pinotin</span></p><p><span>Cabaret Noir</span></p><p><span> </span></p><p><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVDFepyR2pgnz9awnlJSsPp6BvKQ1Fxpzoc5cQ5EXuP7Cg2dnmj5e8ZIdNb_P8vUOLX0wCAbEvtzZKGM0JXjaIIg-HidTBrhnHCz37C6RKRtZinFt6gIH2m8l-1iiy_ZYWgf40Iuvlo5ftyRUcwvx4R4hRJAQFDfoD3wseqTjU-_oGYPglUwtHRLQhgA/s1280/V%20Guillaume%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVDFepyR2pgnz9awnlJSsPp6BvKQ1Fxpzoc5cQ5EXuP7Cg2dnmj5e8ZIdNb_P8vUOLX0wCAbEvtzZKGM0JXjaIIg-HidTBrhnHCz37C6RKRtZinFt6gIH2m8l-1iiy_ZYWgf40Iuvlo5ftyRUcwvx4R4hRJAQFDfoD3wseqTjU-_oGYPglUwtHRLQhgA/s320/V%20Guillaume%202.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></div><span><br />Pepinieres Guillaume was founded in 1895 at Charcennes in the Franche Comte not far from Besancon. They have sister nurseries in Chile, California and Argentina. With publicity material in English and a presence at the show they are clearly a player here in the UK. <br /></span><p></p><p><span></span></p><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI1tafy5eela_7TqxTs6LsvA4qI9jccLImhWLMBbaErKmvwhhsETzOe-OLo0aLlkJ8ITqblCd6_yNIIqDCphABzSJqCXdTefRrupcGmD_EshpZUgg6Snpm4f6EVlEtT7J0SzG_UcCA-_ArU6hF8SY8gJAOndxAC-u-AIkiG5V6NrZgkB1Iy_U7fEd4fw/s1280/Guillaume%20listf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI1tafy5eela_7TqxTs6LsvA4qI9jccLImhWLMBbaErKmvwhhsETzOe-OLo0aLlkJ8ITqblCd6_yNIIqDCphABzSJqCXdTefRrupcGmD_EshpZUgg6Snpm4f6EVlEtT7J0SzG_UcCA-_ArU6hF8SY8gJAOndxAC-u-AIkiG5V6NrZgkB1Iy_U7fEd4fw/s320/Guillaume%20listf.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9fmh_IRXvL-Lzfiq-46Ovwga4TuEC3iiXkUY8IWwmLJaFp2Yv2IV9MGX76MuvudpJBl3GLL7jPmcWfswRYBFEzC6EM_1DXl00OJrzf1tq-3X3G7zG_5P7ToIDAJp6VKsuE-NURBVPS9CYdjvMgmobxc7ZmMzeXG99mOw3kloytvC1VhgBDJtVdZyfEg/s1280/Guiallaume%20listb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9fmh_IRXvL-Lzfiq-46Ovwga4TuEC3iiXkUY8IWwmLJaFp2Yv2IV9MGX76MuvudpJBl3GLL7jPmcWfswRYBFEzC6EM_1DXl00OJrzf1tq-3X3G7zG_5P7ToIDAJp6VKsuE-NURBVPS9CYdjvMgmobxc7ZmMzeXG99mOw3kloytvC1VhgBDJtVdZyfEg/s320/Guiallaume%20listb.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>As
well as the usual international varieties, Guillaume's list of
grafted varieties includes </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Cesar</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Poulsard</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Courbu
N</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Grenache
Gris</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Petit
Meslier</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Sacy</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Petit
Courbu</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Arbanne</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Camaralet</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Arinarnoa</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Arriloba</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Caladoc</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Egiodola</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Ekigaina</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Ravat
262</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Isabelle</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Landot
244</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Excelsior</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Olivette
9110</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">and
the European varieties (again, only the less well-known ones)</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Ancelotta</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Brachetto</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Cornalin</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Diolinoir</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Fumin</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Feteasca
Neagra</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Gamaret</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Humagne
Marsigliana</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Mayolet</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Nerello
Capuccio</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Petit
Rouge</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Pugnitello</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Amigne</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Carricante</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Feteasca
Alba</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Petite
Arvine</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Vitovska</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Quite
a list!</p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.5cm;"><br />
<br />
There was so much to take in at the Vineyard and Winery show that we will report on our tasting of still wines in the next post.</p><br /><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.5cm;"><br />
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</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><b>What did we
learn at SITT London 21.9.22?</b></u></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><b> </b></u></p>
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1. Grapes of the Setubal Peninsula are Castelao for the reds, Arinto,
Fernao Pires, Esgana Cao,, Moscatel Roxo (pink skined Muscat - see photo above)) and of
course Moscatel de Setubal aka Moscatel Graudo - Muscat of
Alexandria, the main white grape.</p><p style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"> </p>
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2. Palmela is an area in the Peninsula de Setubal, not a grape. The
region is also known as Terras do Sado. There are many sub-regions in
the Peninsula de Setubal including</p>
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Almada</p>
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Seixal</p>
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Sesimbra</p>
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Barreiro</p>
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Moita</p>
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Alcochete</p>
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Azaitao</p>
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MontuoAlcacer do Sal</p>
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Grandola</p>
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Santiago do Cacem</p>
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Sines</p><p style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"> </p><p style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXbDxTPVddezvt6UQ1yb03ChUk24K7TWyksuSgG_TUmACCoXeFHFfCHuEHcqi2ffMowHRVfrNqJG6bAOzaSV1UORuncY_O_k7vWKZIUSc0MS5gAYC1FW0FD54YibE_vrB9Expog248HKWvvVRpQJBo6P5eQFtywwyyO3bp7qJTlhGHkx9l7GMbeWC2Vg/s1280/S.%20Central%20Wines%20Poland.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXbDxTPVddezvt6UQ1yb03ChUk24K7TWyksuSgG_TUmACCoXeFHFfCHuEHcqi2ffMowHRVfrNqJG6bAOzaSV1UORuncY_O_k7vWKZIUSc0MS5gAYC1FW0FD54YibE_vrB9Expog248HKWvvVRpQJBo6P5eQFtywwyyO3bp7qJTlhGHkx9l7GMbeWC2Vg/s320/S.%20Central%20Wines%20Poland.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Central Wines is the importer of Polish wines in the UK<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZArYUdpemv7gBkc_JcIPqPx61U0skufKwrm53kO6gn2x4ZkIAdp9CkorQigPsZoGLs_d0CkodUj34tPE8oLQ9eyg61dFrJXEKUiVpr0W4CHAAMOv8rGjOj_SiGqhbY0IgHgUNYSXJRBnfImgBsUW7f35SZEcMxJuq1x8Kz6jXCBMO4gH0UVEmE4VsrQ/s1280/S.%20Roter%20Rieslingf.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZArYUdpemv7gBkc_JcIPqPx61U0skufKwrm53kO6gn2x4ZkIAdp9CkorQigPsZoGLs_d0CkodUj34tPE8oLQ9eyg61dFrJXEKUiVpr0W4CHAAMOv8rGjOj_SiGqhbY0IgHgUNYSXJRBnfImgBsUW7f35SZEcMxJuq1x8Kz6jXCBMO4gH0UVEmE4VsrQ/w300-h400/S.%20Roter%20Rieslingf.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roter Riesling is a real rarity<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <p></p>
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3. Grapes grown in Poland now include Cabernet Blanc, Siegerrebe,
Solaris, Roter Riesling, Regent and Rondo as well as Chardonnay,
Riesling, Pinot Noir and other usual suspects. Wasps decimated this
year’s Siegerrebe crop.</p>
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4. Niko Wines of Preston specialise in Serbian wine. There were some
stupendous discoveries to be made here;</p>
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a). Severna Morava or Morava Severna. This is a cross between
Fruehroter Veltliner and Mueller-Thurgau at the viticulture research
centre, Novi Sad and was authorised in 2003. “It is one of the more
successful recent Serbian crosses and plantings are increasing.”
(‘Wine Grapes’). Severna means ‘Northern.’ 13.5%<br /></p>
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b). Zilavka – the white grape of Bosnia Herzegovin. 13.3%
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c). Prokupac. ‘Wine Grapes’ tells us that this is a very old
Balkan variety, possibly originating in Serbia,’ Prokupac Boje 'Lila' is 13.5%<br /></p>
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There was also a delicious wine made from Tamjanika or Tamyanka.
These turn out to be synonyms for Muscat Blanc a petits grains.Again 13.5%<br /></p>
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When the many different wines of Oszkar Maurer ar taken into
consideration, you can see that Serbia has a plethora of interesting
and little known grape varieties.</p>
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5. Albillo Real is really just Albillo. There are other Albillos but most
are no longer cultivated. This was from Good Brothers Wine Company specialising in Natural, organic, and biodynamic wines of Spain. Good indeed.<br /></p>
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6. Merseguera is also known as Messeguera. Not earth shattering news but we thought you would like to know that.<br /></p>
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7. Susumaniello (Puglia) is worth a second try. There are only 72 ha.
And most of it is used in blends – mainly with Negroamaro. </p><p style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiceffkPqEfd0P6JMB4jE5gs0_39ZNjiW_BUiKpcHD2RoxoxCEi7a7s54GobX_knC_MklUCwqJAuWwjOL1JBUxmjauHQ31fmOKg8XICC6BbwIj5w156D5Zt5jfcebSft6gQ9Rk5nLTy_7zC_lQK9O94msK9IdnA-5RcxtrbkvhxVHZiRLt1wty6SqFEKA/s1280/S%20Susumaniello%20For%20the%20Love%20of%20Wine.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiceffkPqEfd0P6JMB4jE5gs0_39ZNjiW_BUiKpcHD2RoxoxCEi7a7s54GobX_knC_MklUCwqJAuWwjOL1JBUxmjauHQ31fmOKg8XICC6BbwIj5w156D5Zt5jfcebSft6gQ9Rk5nLTy_7zC_lQK9O94msK9IdnA-5RcxtrbkvhxVHZiRLt1wty6SqFEKA/w300-h400/S%20Susumaniello%20For%20the%20Love%20of%20Wine.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">This was a good 100% Susumaniello from 'For the Love of Wine.'</p><p style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwC-uqMfB7psYYqrHU7kWnCeZySkqC9gtIG5hmU5Xt1sfdnaLIwV3iXPySw3spBsW_U7i9IGTxpw4wpIyCu5N2PAFbyQmHHXctC0R3sZ9TRU9P8lk4mzpttKeTKi4Mv4JHSKJtmcAHob9lcz-2KFk0JmEdZM89RhOcV1SaFLT9H5BJKyREYSz3kzNxcQ/s1280/S%20Dornfelderf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwC-uqMfB7psYYqrHU7kWnCeZySkqC9gtIG5hmU5Xt1sfdnaLIwV3iXPySw3spBsW_U7i9IGTxpw4wpIyCu5N2PAFbyQmHHXctC0R3sZ9TRU9P8lk4mzpttKeTKi4Mv4JHSKJtmcAHob9lcz-2KFk0JmEdZM89RhOcV1SaFLT9H5BJKyREYSz3kzNxcQ/w300-h400/S%20Dornfelderf.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw7OsFvluEp7fXbrAM568UDpdnLIoc_rmmXdII6BbudkwScFhROO88HMHMQ62Z8bOYLfF3iEbERJQzzp8A6QAONVz37BXuQu2kIctYX7d8XwjuHyd_22cuebhNfQ71W5FT3KCa_tUQqiR9CJhoOpUK4Vc7PZu4Cnho69VkRenm-UPRujl25fJQOqvQ4w/s1280/S.%20Dornfelderb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw7OsFvluEp7fXbrAM568UDpdnLIoc_rmmXdII6BbudkwScFhROO88HMHMQ62Z8bOYLfF3iEbERJQzzp8A6QAONVz37BXuQu2kIctYX7d8XwjuHyd_22cuebhNfQ71W5FT3KCa_tUQqiR9CJhoOpUK4Vc7PZu4Cnho69VkRenm-UPRujl25fJQOqvQ4w/w300-h400/S.%20Dornfelderb.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">There was also our new friend Alzbeta Novotna od Wines of Bohemia whom we had met at the Oxford Wine Festival. As well as the other mainly Moravian varieties she was offering a Dornfelder this time at 12%.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDt9vxXb9bi6sUnaa0kTXmv7FygQZkZ957bN6RkktWrp7B1a31se1mQEnl-KT-7smGQ1kL2hsllTavtl76jYnBmFaA8f0_KDVfSm7bVYN4DCjnMVpojDA8IkEx6bT2uvy3RGDitJzHgfhrSoWXlF90DwZh4e4hPMr6ig5bFXm7mZ5MjscRIY_v9pxEFw/s1280/S%20Sauv%20Grisf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDt9vxXb9bi6sUnaa0kTXmv7FygQZkZ957bN6RkktWrp7B1a31se1mQEnl-KT-7smGQ1kL2hsllTavtl76jYnBmFaA8f0_KDVfSm7bVYN4DCjnMVpojDA8IkEx6bT2uvy3RGDitJzHgfhrSoWXlF90DwZh4e4hPMr6ig5bFXm7mZ5MjscRIY_v9pxEFw/w300-h400/S%20Sauv%20Grisf.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpV08ZwStt5-YgRz08cxHdu-zi8jeHmuCs8-4sgRardmTlDQbS0do_bqZspyoqJlKLaz7GQeukPNbA2evy2zsq44BJUkdQICf_eqQn8DcsKHZxJMvkDu-HnCp6y9hrY7ef1GMP0rALelv3W08H7PRPxB2Wr_Vq-2nGgjx38eQIgMtqWa9Llyekgor7ew/s1280/Sauv%20Grisb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpV08ZwStt5-YgRz08cxHdu-zi8jeHmuCs8-4sgRardmTlDQbS0do_bqZspyoqJlKLaz7GQeukPNbA2evy2zsq44BJUkdQICf_eqQn8DcsKHZxJMvkDu-HnCp6y9hrY7ef1GMP0rALelv3W08H7PRPxB2Wr_Vq-2nGgjx38eQIgMtqWa9Llyekgor7ew/w300-h400/Sauv%20Grisb.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">Also a Chilean Sauvignin Gris by Vina Casa Silva from our friends at Jackson Nugent.</p><p style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">Sauvignon Gris is also know as Fie in the Loire and is a colour mutation of Sauvignon Blanc. Other colour mutations of Sauvignon Blanc include Sauvignon Rose and Sauvignon Rouge. 'Wine Grapes' tells us that Sauvignon Gris is on the up and becoming fashionable...'there are more and more examples further afield, especially in Chile...'</p><p style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">'Wine Grapes' uncharacteristically skirts aound Sauvignon Rose and Sauvignon Rouge other than to say the latter is grown in small quantity in the Loire. Do not confuse with Sauvignon Rosso, a synonym for Centesimino. In fact Sauvignon Rouge may be identical with something called Roter Gruenling. Gruenling itself is of unknown origin although it has been suggested that it may be the same as Adelfränkisch. This takes us into the realms of the 'Historische Rebsorten' for which see this Blog. Googling 'Sauvignon Rouge' mostly takes you to Cabernet Sauvignon which is altogether different. Cabernet Sauvignon is an offspring from Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc. This was only discovered in 1996 by Carole Meredith and John Bowers at the University of California at Davis by the way.<br /></p><p style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">All this is rather fascinating; do colour mutations taste different even though their DNA is the same? If so how different? Sauvignon Gris is said to taste different from Sauvignon Blanc.</p><p style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">The Winecellar insider says in comparison with Sauvignon Blanc, <br /></p><p style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><i><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn UiGGAb" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">Sauvignon Gris has slightly thicker skins and higher sugar levels.
Both grapes produce acidic beverages, but Sauvignon Gris wines are
richer, drier, and more voluptuous in texture than Sauvignon Blancs.</span></span></i></p>
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We enjoyed our visit and decided to return in 2022. This year was a little smaller than last year and there were quite a few exhibitors who had been there then. Sadly, the hilarious Chris Ruffle of Treaty Port Vineyards in Shandong was not there.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYceHmeqnGtIpDTW_ZF1_g6_6wbmUqjWwnyK5gbQsqa2JKuZv958LBxuf04uFXcPBp8xTgokz4iaWaPAqZyOiLwTjA3Ou9IcAxLDkVD9zeQHi7Y73siMgYpwK777RiFzdJ7Hi_gjIXW7XU1LqPmj0aos2-rMd_Nu7Q0DcWFjFw8FUC2Gb5ei3xpih17w/s1280/Ox%20Alzbeta%20Novotna.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYceHmeqnGtIpDTW_ZF1_g6_6wbmUqjWwnyK5gbQsqa2JKuZv958LBxuf04uFXcPBp8xTgokz4iaWaPAqZyOiLwTjA3Ou9IcAxLDkVD9zeQHi7Y73siMgYpwK777RiFzdJ7Hi_gjIXW7XU1LqPmj0aos2-rMd_Nu7Q0DcWFjFw8FUC2Gb5ei3xpih17w/w400-h300/Ox%20Alzbeta%20Novotna.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alzbeta Novotna</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>New this year was Wines of Bohemia - Handpicked Moravian Wines. The enterprising CEO and Founder is Alzbeta Novotna who knows her subject and should go far. Indeed we met her again at SITT on September 22nd in London.</p><p>A leaflet we picked up at her stand gave an interesting run down of the most planted grape varieties in the Czech Republic,</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheKU-8RrJmOouTvekJpWPqIoDZSJEr16j4h5_kblt4HVZ9ZUPMuybOMHGic1vPqc4fFnxTbUxtWcczPgBUHaz1OpUtoKEzWdDOQAuMDCsizifVOGSaNzmOpCH-ZVgSkjwAVtbvuoascxi48S3rWPWo9fL6d-_1PRtMtvkn2XawYFJCr9E0MUxpxl7btA/s1280/Ox%20Czeck=h%20vars.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheKU-8RrJmOouTvekJpWPqIoDZSJEr16j4h5_kblt4HVZ9ZUPMuybOMHGic1vPqc4fFnxTbUxtWcczPgBUHaz1OpUtoKEzWdDOQAuMDCsizifVOGSaNzmOpCH-ZVgSkjwAVtbvuoascxi48S3rWPWo9fL6d-_1PRtMtvkn2XawYFJCr9E0MUxpxl7btA/w300-h400/Ox%20Czeck=h%20vars.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p>These are</p><p>Gruener Veltliner</p><p>Mueller Thurgau</p><p>Riesling</p><p>Welschriesling</p><p>Blaufraenkisch</p><p>Saint Laurent</p><p>Pinot Gris</p><p>Sauvignon Blanc</p><p>Chardonnay</p><p>Pinot Blanc</p><p>Zweigelt</p><p>Pinot Noir</p><p>Traminer</p><p>Palava</p><p>Blauer Portugieser</p><p>An idiosyncratic alignment indeed. </p><p>Apart from these 15 top varieties (in terms of plantings), the National Register of Plant Varieties listswhites from Aurelius, Auxerrois, Devin, Florianka, Irsai Oliver, Kerner, Lena, Medea, Muscat Ottonel, Rulenka, Svojsen, Tristar, Veritas and Vrboska and for the reds Acolon, Agni, Ariana, Blauburger, Cabernet Dorsa, Fratava, Fruehburgunder plus three teinturiers Alibernet, Neronet and Rubinet. </p><p>Under the 'PIWI' heading there are whites including Erilon, Malverina, Mery, Rinot, Savilon and Vesna and reds including Cabernet Cortis, Cerason, Kofranka, Laurot, Nativa and Sevar.</p><p>You vcan see the Czechs have been very busy breeding their own grapes as well as planting cutting edge examples from abroad. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0aLhUzn0ARuSl0RUwNfiP9D50B4nJm_pyrldSNsqkNZGjxbINBwPDj6lM4NHoSH0xlQ4q8T4d4xxTCl1qF3cRm1bDOVTZ8oq4eJSgB5nDS1ZFfWFI55WfqENxK7nIY7O1Eia5OoXfxroAQtZpcc0Vo--s2nbOT2_rSH7uC9msdgigifQK7e2Mac5L9w/s1280/Ox%20Hibernal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0aLhUzn0ARuSl0RUwNfiP9D50B4nJm_pyrldSNsqkNZGjxbINBwPDj6lM4NHoSH0xlQ4q8T4d4xxTCl1qF3cRm1bDOVTZ8oq4eJSgB5nDS1ZFfWFI55WfqENxK7nIY7O1Eia5OoXfxroAQtZpcc0Vo--s2nbOT2_rSH7uC9msdgigifQK7e2Mac5L9w/w300-h400/Ox%20Hibernal.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs9PYafsXui7N64Tt9AcgrSJO1-elHSrOV1ndoQA8IyVV5eK39jDh3yuVWauHfvWLV91jJhyPEVxQEo53hxSbmCsF9MrShpNMap6ZY7tTzC-JCOzMlbJPSrOWnvDK7ijUHnMga8KBL9zgsKih3XXB-11u4KCQiPDuxRyIG4qHsa8URHMg4JIIielKj5Q/s1280/Ox%20Neronet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs9PYafsXui7N64Tt9AcgrSJO1-elHSrOV1ndoQA8IyVV5eK39jDh3yuVWauHfvWLV91jJhyPEVxQEo53hxSbmCsF9MrShpNMap6ZY7tTzC-JCOzMlbJPSrOWnvDK7ijUHnMga8KBL9zgsKih3XXB-11u4KCQiPDuxRyIG4qHsa8URHMg4JIIielKj5Q/w300-h400/Ox%20Neronet.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p>We tried Alzbeta's Hibernal (strangely enough not mentioned above) and Neronet. We had encounteres Hibernal previously at Wein Plus in Duesseldorf and rather liked it.</p><p>Neronet on the other hand is a strong favourite.</p><p>We wish Alzbeta the luck she deserves for founding this interesting company.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdGRvt0Y4mgh0cEUSRBVGlagIFtneK2ARX2cMxEz_bhBdlckVSTx01s7OlDC4QP83-hdeKDs8gFF0EfQS3OGZsdnUzCJckFV4nFgN5NDLRTkp7t-siMG9GGEMb_MLAtx6JiwDep8GthAtrtLDqCQFbCuKYbpgX2q173PPNyUd9pejbXFpLPNu1nw8QUw/s1280/Ox%20Novotna%20cardb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdGRvt0Y4mgh0cEUSRBVGlagIFtneK2ARX2cMxEz_bhBdlckVSTx01s7OlDC4QP83-hdeKDs8gFF0EfQS3OGZsdnUzCJckFV4nFgN5NDLRTkp7t-siMG9GGEMb_MLAtx6JiwDep8GthAtrtLDqCQFbCuKYbpgX2q173PPNyUd9pejbXFpLPNu1nw8QUw/w300-h400/Ox%20Novotna%20cardb.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxN_5VucynwJyNIxwd00yR2zH5UtEPvQHl8Axf4t2oqp2Pj9pavdpcRrj1YnqjKXW6jmgwMVypCWuz0QUJ_9t4vjrcl57kpHgcITWKC2XrBjkrdRTRVSWWq78aSRJY0yGZE_K4ncCwQGCZqwsNQoKsd0OJrM6GSrDduOFH9MMuWVB0yfp_f6QcCKl-DQ/s1280/Ox%20Novotna%20cardf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxN_5VucynwJyNIxwd00yR2zH5UtEPvQHl8Axf4t2oqp2Pj9pavdpcRrj1YnqjKXW6jmgwMVypCWuz0QUJ_9t4vjrcl57kpHgcITWKC2XrBjkrdRTRVSWWq78aSRJY0yGZE_K4ncCwQGCZqwsNQoKsd0OJrM6GSrDduOFH9MMuWVB0yfp_f6QcCKl-DQ/w300-h400/Ox%20Novotna%20cardf.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p>Wines of Bohemia was upstairs in the Emerging Regions Zone.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsRx1uqkHnLO5hTcrJsbQkpP9yo1b3bez8Yfh3GXfxxMleczTR_gb-EyyP-qHMhKfYg7uXEnQRpgps1edDHYZ5Y9KOI3fEb703PyrFi8QB_gYebRQ5rNjGYnQOEFCcBgtNr0P5onHL6Qz4kcvjWLOjXOaXzaVs7ovgg0yZffFa9aHO75MjWiAi-OxKkg/s1280/Ox%20Croatian%20guy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsRx1uqkHnLO5hTcrJsbQkpP9yo1b3bez8Yfh3GXfxxMleczTR_gb-EyyP-qHMhKfYg7uXEnQRpgps1edDHYZ5Y9KOI3fEb703PyrFi8QB_gYebRQ5rNjGYnQOEFCcBgtNr0P5onHL6Qz4kcvjWLOjXOaXzaVs7ovgg0yZffFa9aHO75MjWiAi-OxKkg/w400-h300/Ox%20Croatian%20guy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Croatian wines were there this year. In fact the company is called 'The Wine and More' and we had bought some interesting bottles of rare Balkan grape varieties from them before. These truly rare varieties include<div><br /></div><div>Bagrina</div><div>Kujundusa</div><div>Kuc</div><div>Kujundusa</div><div>Kurelaska</div><div>Suscan (aka Sansigot)</div><div>Trnjak</div><div>Zarkinac</div><div><br /></div><div>as well as the better known Babic, Blatina, Dingac, Plavac Mali, Prokupac, Vranac, Tridibrag and Zlahtina.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_bRA6SkOH03y_A2c7rwIwYT2FlocaeVHKeaLXfmjX7MX_-NsSaBMSax7stf0aa0pyhugdgWdFqY1Ok0UizdYM4R3E0GORyhF0wrUKOxNM7QHG5BjjuJIs0hH5kVjjpAp5zvWAvYIv-JkFh70PSxzkcQrXxrx8BCxuy6OowMjLr1MLm_W8UQMfET_Xtg/s1280/Ox%20Croat%20flyerb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_bRA6SkOH03y_A2c7rwIwYT2FlocaeVHKeaLXfmjX7MX_-NsSaBMSax7stf0aa0pyhugdgWdFqY1Ok0UizdYM4R3E0GORyhF0wrUKOxNM7QHG5BjjuJIs0hH5kVjjpAp5zvWAvYIv-JkFh70PSxzkcQrXxrx8BCxuy6OowMjLr1MLm_W8UQMfET_Xtg/s320/Ox%20Croat%20flyerb.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWyaSIoodvCwOYnQrDsGIurB78p1CPvuE2WmaYR27Hwg974ljxzPLweOIFliltnXpsq-6vB9Z685DwKwV-8ogJt1x_AvOHvx5khJN2Wib62CwrvTZqEo4tKMdtGlw6wk5tl62uG2TP1XdxWYssuH2pBvWJK-k3g-JPZylAM13U5JUkenHSzip6omVmiw/s1280/Ox%20Croat%20flyerf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWyaSIoodvCwOYnQrDsGIurB78p1CPvuE2WmaYR27Hwg974ljxzPLweOIFliltnXpsq-6vB9Z685DwKwV-8ogJt1x_AvOHvx5khJN2Wib62CwrvTZqEo4tKMdtGlw6wk5tl62uG2TP1XdxWYssuH2pBvWJK-k3g-JPZylAM13U5JUkenHSzip6omVmiw/s320/Ox%20Croat%20flyerf.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div>On tasting was a Skrlet at only 12.5%. Amazing as the other examples of this white grape we had drunk had been much higher in alcohol. This example was delicious. </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCGYmX2EgaFmj7luUvC3jFXUq9M0lIcfEhOpO9yhQbIHkWwbcIAzydGeta4eZ_kIZzqOaVx0K56fzmPRK-l18o-cxmM__LfTXlslNOYWpqVLKAqiAE6qTgvhfCk4LE5rfQtQXchojvpBPtq6kMJQl2Zlz6qPFrdaQBLANXXm0KnUBZcCROzEoplIvm1Q/s1280/Ox%20room1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCGYmX2EgaFmj7luUvC3jFXUq9M0lIcfEhOpO9yhQbIHkWwbcIAzydGeta4eZ_kIZzqOaVx0K56fzmPRK-l18o-cxmM__LfTXlslNOYWpqVLKAqiAE6qTgvhfCk4LE5rfQtQXchojvpBPtq6kMJQl2Zlz6qPFrdaQBLANXXm0KnUBZcCROzEoplIvm1Q/w400-h300/Ox%20room1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br />Downstairs in the debating hall there was an eclectic selection of exhibitors;</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSbLTXseTzxgtLz55kJASWiVo_kmBUcJtI8VxsJKOGauvuCVUQ0yYrGwITJJ0CLrXCWRcyFxaQm83b4XL7ZEwYpP63YVUU9fe9ikJsdZpf68r5R29I2RDo9LqNdIW72Q-lSGGXbKSt2UQ9m0FDsBzjBdxXm7Zo_bMvcxxrOP5LAl7PFw2quBiGg8DPNg/s1280/Ox%20Canned%20gamme.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSbLTXseTzxgtLz55kJASWiVo_kmBUcJtI8VxsJKOGauvuCVUQ0yYrGwITJJ0CLrXCWRcyFxaQm83b4XL7ZEwYpP63YVUU9fe9ikJsdZpf68r5R29I2RDo9LqNdIW72Q-lSGGXbKSt2UQ9m0FDsBzjBdxXm7Zo_bMvcxxrOP5LAl7PFw2quBiGg8DPNg/w400-h300/Ox%20Canned%20gamme.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtmSfGsiyhPwFxs2MagiTQudKzf_pqSQFGeiZcjLNZo5TUdSERLs2py0zIbUt0UtwL5BX3G4qRCLjtRvphonyUXY3JsqjstOngpnUKYxxm2aDCR2WaIq-Z4QCaWhSdv835BjyaSp00sxjkEQpG0MZoaxqaUQDc0nbsJJqi7MIjSQhcmkLPZtvhSqB5rA/s1280/Ox%20Cannedf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtmSfGsiyhPwFxs2MagiTQudKzf_pqSQFGeiZcjLNZo5TUdSERLs2py0zIbUt0UtwL5BX3G4qRCLjtRvphonyUXY3JsqjstOngpnUKYxxm2aDCR2WaIq-Z4QCaWhSdv835BjyaSp00sxjkEQpG0MZoaxqaUQDc0nbsJJqi7MIjSQhcmkLPZtvhSqB5rA/s320/Ox%20Cannedf.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Canned Wine (why not?), an excellent cheese table and</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje4kVwzvFtpoU_S8VZ7EUeDiD_0ELveEEQJov3SmHXAohJnACPWWvc1zFtzYY1cskNl56yhmwdZ6WsF8F0V2y_HjYRPSQWwS-ZHejrJcswsdyShEGPklrFKWHvuFkfsf-IV7zy0BhAsx6Law9pH7cJ3wA3Ozb81Dn7abeanW07Qf5l3FpCsykfPKqHcQ/s1280/Ox%20Alp%20Joelle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje4kVwzvFtpoU_S8VZ7EUeDiD_0ELveEEQJov3SmHXAohJnACPWWvc1zFtzYY1cskNl56yhmwdZ6WsF8F0V2y_HjYRPSQWwS-ZHejrJcswsdyShEGPklrFKWHvuFkfsf-IV7zy0BhAsx6Law9pH7cJ3wA3Ozb81Dn7abeanW07Qf5l3FpCsykfPKqHcQ/w640-h480/Ox%20Alp%20Joelle.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>the excellent Joelle Nebbe-Mornod, guiding light of Alpine Wines without whom buying wines from Switzerland and other regions rich in grape varieties but thinly represented here in the UK would be so difficult. Joelle was another hard-working exhibitor who had a stand at SITT soon after. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhKx7A5ypy4jygWAmqGpiRxj8Uo2Lp6NBD3TUJDRJcwnmu9xzz5WqarYq-JfQqBxwMy3te3cKHFq24x2Vnf5RrWl1lrOKHeVvvZiC6zmYPtZ7RHj-2iudrT6drxL0BKDjoug3bwQoab2Uj84bfpaepBDFE92sSUnqHb27HyMXOVZXQ0ly1AvmDw7HTkA/s1280/Ox%20room2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhKx7A5ypy4jygWAmqGpiRxj8Uo2Lp6NBD3TUJDRJcwnmu9xzz5WqarYq-JfQqBxwMy3te3cKHFq24x2Vnf5RrWl1lrOKHeVvvZiC6zmYPtZ7RHj-2iudrT6drxL0BKDjoug3bwQoab2Uj84bfpaepBDFE92sSUnqHb27HyMXOVZXQ0ly1AvmDw7HTkA/s320/Ox%20room2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>There was a room for English Vineyards and there as in 2021 there was Oatley, a Somerset Vineyard we had ignorantly passed by then.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK99meyXH2ALNYErt3iBFQI9W9JNyeml0KjEwVJL6m2z5K96bxNVr2Fexa8gvoLWlrabtxU0fBoUX6OMWnLb97bMdCPHnqymJbvqrTkHbZL-k0AGGO9cCkCHVGodtXXFIXRxcNG9Zm_BicvKTNmYT_tznFpN3raNpxau3btRpEJj239dn2WAxmO2r5tg/s1280/Ox%20Oatleyf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK99meyXH2ALNYErt3iBFQI9W9JNyeml0KjEwVJL6m2z5K96bxNVr2Fexa8gvoLWlrabtxU0fBoUX6OMWnLb97bMdCPHnqymJbvqrTkHbZL-k0AGGO9cCkCHVGodtXXFIXRxcNG9Zm_BicvKTNmYT_tznFpN3raNpxau3btRpEJj239dn2WAxmO2r5tg/s320/Ox%20Oatleyf.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Ignorantly because Oatley's Leonora's 2021 is made from the rare Kernling - a fact they don't advertise on the label but are happy to tell you if you ask. We know Kerner and are fans of that grape. 'Wine Grapes' tells us that Kernling is a less vigorous mutation of Kerner. </div><div><br /></div><div>The Great British Vineyards Guide says</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-full"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><i><strong>Kernling</strong>
is a white grape variety, which originated from mutation from the grape
variety Kerner . In 1974, Ludwig Hochdörffer found this mutation in a
Kerner vineyard in the municipality of Nußdorf near Landau in the
Palatinate . The variety received the varietal protection in 1991 and
was registered in 1995 in the cultivator list of the Bundessortenamt .</i></p>
<p><i>The name is made up of the syllable core (reference to the mother
plant Kerner) and ling (as a reference to the Riesling , since the wine
type is similar). Kernling has a similar wine quality as the Kerner, but
is significantly less susceptible to illness and has a lesser tendency
towards the formation of miseries . In 2007, the Rebstatistik had a
planted area of 18 hectares in Germany, after 19 hectares in 2001.</i></p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-area-in-production-2015 field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-full"><h2 class="field-label"><i><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">UK Area in production 2015: </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">4.49 Hectares</span></span></i></h2></section><p><i>German area in production; 16 Hectares and falling.</i></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb9ExnkXLCYvGWbgXMm2hoeirO_X0M3SiFZPVHzGMuuuOMQNscTEZeec4DXAhYkNodkKIBPn25Q8ohM1vl4WYDxuuQXnn7lKNsSdvRbvRM0dQS1eDrbTgqr-jbn15d6OclXHaOvOI4JGzxnhQ2KndUPjPRtzZGPyKrCsJB_dfXRurWZXq6LadzUuivhg/s1280/Ox%20Oatley%20people.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb9ExnkXLCYvGWbgXMm2hoeirO_X0M3SiFZPVHzGMuuuOMQNscTEZeec4DXAhYkNodkKIBPn25Q8ohM1vl4WYDxuuQXnn7lKNsSdvRbvRM0dQS1eDrbTgqr-jbn15d6OclXHaOvOI4JGzxnhQ2KndUPjPRtzZGPyKrCsJB_dfXRurWZXq6LadzUuivhg/w200-h150/Ox%20Oatley%20people.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oatley people at the festival</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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</p><p align="center" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>Cave
L’Etiquette, Paris</u></p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Le joli petit
canard, Sauvignon. Vin de France, Charente Maritime 12.5% </p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Chateau Petit
Fombrauge St. Emilion Grand Cru. Petit Fombrauge blanc 2020.
Chardonnay, Colombard, Roussanne. 12.5%</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Haut Planty, Le
Landreau, Loire Atlantique. Abouriou. 12.5%</p>
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<p align="center" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>L’Ange
Rouge, Paris</u></p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Beireieu, Glou Glou
Pet Nat, Roquetaillade, Aude. Vin de France. Mauzac. 2019. 11%</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Chateau Boujac, Les
petites demoiselles Negrette, Fronton 2020. 12.5%. </p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Le Fief Noir
‘Cocagne’ Grolleau. Le val de Loire. 12.5% <br /></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Plaisance Penavayre
‘Rend son jus’ Jurancon Noir. Vacquiers, Haute Garonne. 10.5% <br /></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Eric Goypieron P - -
- - - - D (Poulsard) Vin de France. Jura. 2019 12.5%. <br /></p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">A.A. Raval.
Bardolino Novello Classico. ‘Natural’ 12.5% <br /></p><br /><br />
<p align="center" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>Non
– bio. Purchased/imported by Slotovino</u></p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Domaine Gigou Pineau
D’Aunis 2017. Coteaux du Loir. 12..5% </p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Marche Rosso,
Montepulciano. Pizza Express house red. 11.5%. </p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Philippe Vandelle,
Poulsard. Cotes du Jura. 2020. 12%. </p>
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