Archive for May, 2009:
Cork oak forests
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The ‘business’ forests of the Mediterranean cork oak landscapes.
Cork industry invests to remove musty taint
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How the cork industry finally took seriously the musty/mouldy taint of TCA.
Wines by the glass – keeping them fresh
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Wine starts to deteriorate once the bottle is open. Bits of kit exist to help preserve opened bottles in good nick.
Barbecue Britain
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What makes a good barbecue wine?
Bright whites from Spain
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Spain makes some super white wines in fresh, aromatic, fruit-focused styles, unencumbered by complicating oak.
Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc
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Zesty sauvignon blanc from Marlborough, New Zealand is almost our favourite tipple.
Caviste
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Australian-trained winemaker turned wine merchant, David Thomas, and his wife, Hannah, have three Caviste wine shops in Hampshire.
English Wine
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English wine goes from strength to strength
Australian pinot noir
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Pinot noir is a notoriously capricious and fastidious grape variety, demanding specific sites to perform at its best. Australia is getting to grips with the variety for high quality wine production.
Terroir in Australia – regionality by any other name?
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As Australian producers explore more niche places to grow grapes, and their marketeers promote regionality, is this merely the Aussie view on that most French of concepts – terroir?
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