Monthly Tasting Notes and Musings

  • October Tasting Notes

    ‘Les Vins Pirouettes’ Saveurs de Claude 2018   “Les Vins Pirouettes” is a cult collective of natural wine makers in the Alsace making some wonderfu...
  • October Wine Club Musings...

    So I touched a little on the use of Sulfites in wine making in last months notes and I wanted to elaborate a little on the other additives
  • What is Orange Wine??

    Essentially, orange wine is the result of treating white grapes as red grapes, leaving them to 'macerate' on the skins rather than pressing them off right away. The resulting wine has more...
  • September Tasting Notes

    TASTING NOTES September 2022 La Clarine 'Are Buka Boke' 2020 La Clarine Farm is the two-person team of Hank Beckmeyer & Caroline Hoël located 2...
  • September Wine Club Musings...

    Sulfites naturally occur in all fermented foods so it is impossible for any wine to be ‘sulfite free’ entirely.  However, winemakers add...