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Sign up to our Newsletter. Les Caves de Pyrene. English Wine at the Real Wine Fair: Davenport Vineyards. April 13, 2017. Back to basics, or what makes wine the way it is. April 12, 2017. Three Restaurants = Six Wine Bars. April 7, 2017. Not the last word by any means on the natural wine kerfuffle. April 4, 2017. Keeping it Real (Wine) with Co-Organiser Doug Wregg. March 31, 2017. Doug Decants: Limoux and Oregon (as you do), plus Natural Resistance and Farewell to Patricia! March 28, 2017. March 28, 2017.

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Austria and Oregon: random thoughts on recent buying trips

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Sign up to our Newsletter. Les Caves de Pyrene. Austria and Oregon: random thoughts on recent buying trips. July 7, 2015. Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget. 8211;The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters, Ovid. The latter are those, have travelled or worked outside their region, who like to drink different wines and may have had either a Damascene epiphany (or a gradual conversion) enabling them to break free of current orthodoxies.

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Thoughts on Tasting and Tasters

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Sign up to our Newsletter. Les Caves de Pyrene. Thoughts on Tasting and Tasters. July 15, 2015. Looking at the glass-twitchers, sniffers and slurpers at a recent Les Caves de Pyrene tasting made me think that tasting is as much about mood as anything. The more generic the tasting the more you will be seeking correctness and typicity and points of reference; a small-grower-predominantly-natural-wine tasting compels one to jettison certainties and open oneself to challenge and excitement. It is an empty ex...

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We’ve got a not-so-little-list

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Sign up to our Newsletter. Les Caves de Pyrene. We’ve got a not-so-little-list. July 21, 2015. The list is the origin of culture. It’s part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order. As some day it may happen that a vigneron must be found,. I’ve got a little list I’ve got a little list. Of Georgian growers who bury clay pots underground,. And who would certainly be missed who would utterly be missed! We get high on mountai...

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A revolutionary wine survey about wine surveys: our trends

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Sign up to our Newsletter. Les Caves de Pyrene. A revolutionary wine survey about wine surveys: our trends. July 3, 2015. The average wine trend is nothing if not flimflambuoyant. The Bearable Lightness of Low Alcohol. As for the sweets Moscato d’Asti gives us base vibes at 5.5, followed by various Framinghams at 7.5/8 and the sweet Chenin from Les Vignes Herbels (8). Old Gold – Vieilles Vignes, Vigna Vecchia, Old Vines. With age these nobbled and gnarly vines acquire a rough wisdom. Frick, Binner, Ganev...

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Revving up the Revolution: Part Two

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Sign up to our Newsletter. Les Caves de Pyrene. Revving up the Revolution: Part Two. August 4, 2015. A little bit of Jekyll, a little bit of Hyde. Photo credit: www.roguevine.com. It seems to me that if you don’t like naturally-made wines you need to make a coherent argument for the wines you like, but if you can’t make your point without endless negative reference to natural wine, then your argument is undermined. The logic being that the louder you. Such histrionics may be construed as raging against t...

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Dancing Angels and the Joy of Wine

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Sign up to our Newsletter. Les Caves de Pyrene. Dancing Angels and the Joy of Wine. July 31, 2015. Rather than spending their lives defending nomenclature, delving into semantic nuances and untangling gossamer philosophical niceties, natural wine drinkers copains and copines alike – drink wine. The wine trade en. Do I require empirical evidence to sense that certain wines are more natural than others, or are all the better for being more naturally made? No, I am not pedantic in this respect; I trust my (...

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Revving up the Revolution: Part One

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Sign up to our Newsletter. Les Caves de Pyrene. Revving up the Revolution: Part One. July 28, 2015. There was also a time in those conservative days that organic practices in the vineyard were regarded as quaint and hippyish, and as for biodynamics…well that geomantic Steiner-inspired nonsense was strictly for the cows that jumped over the moon. How times have changed. First impressions are certainly important. My curiosity was piqued how many of these wines existed? Were they all the same? From tiny aco...

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Austria and Oregon: random thoughts on recent buying trips. Part 2

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Sign up to our Newsletter. Les Caves de Pyrene. Austria and Oregon: random thoughts on recent buying trips. Part 2. July 10, 2015. Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but is particularly indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems. Photo by Wine Anorak). To this end Chad Stock. Range, Martin Arndorfer has his Per Se. Variation...

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Burgenland – Creating a New History: Part Two

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Sign up to our Newsletter. Les Caves de Pyrene. Burgenland Creating a New History: Part Two. May 8, 2015. Claus made his first wine in 2000 when he was a mere twenty years old. His first Pannobile came four years later. A young confident vigneron he works according the precepts of Rudolf Steiner and in the cellar is a purist and quality-fanatic using taste and gut instinct as his guides. While the approach is simple and natural, the results are sophisticated, in the sense that the wines have a strong sen...