tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44047892699923094712009-02-20T23:00:40.081-08:00A monthly Blog on the theme of wine, specifically Organic and Biodynamic wines and contemporary issues surrounding wine and the wine trade.Le Terroir-isthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14873550925453955695noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404789269992309471.post-53594510348527483722008-10-06T06:14:00.000-07:002008-10-06T06:27:01.258-07:00

As a spectator of Jane Moore’s inflammatory and enlightening foray into wine additives and Malcolm Gluck’s recent related revelations, I have been amazed at the response both within and without the wine-world. I have a few points of my own to add as well.Malcolm first.... Mr Gluck says a few very valid points in his Daily Mail article (27th September) about the prevalence of underhand winemaking

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There are many a wine slurper who when asked what they would care to be served, retort, "A-B-C darling ..anything but chardonnay!"" Its an all too common phenomenom which makes me fell a little sorry for the much maligned Chardonnay. Because its not really Chardonnay they hate, ok they may hate some of the obtuse and ordinary oaked varieties, but its the repition of a theme, they're just

Le Terroir-isthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14873550925453955695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404789269992309471.post-70231687612344099542008-01-11T09:00:00.000-08:002008-01-11T09:43:15.314-08:00

After a regrettably gluttonous holiday the wife and I decided to follow the path of obligatory ‘detox’, although it’s not really a detox: more of a lonely road of zero alcohol travail. As if January wasn’t destined to be a mother of a drag anyway, we decide to highlight our guilt further by the suffering and self torture of booze deprivation. The long and short of it is I’ve been feeling a little

Le Terroir-isthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14873550925453955695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404789269992309471.post-10186481507407465872007-11-13T08:51:00.000-08:002007-11-13T08:53:12.505-08:00

Winter seems to be well and truly upon us now, I donned four layers and a scarf this morning! Even now, seated in my chilly cellar, I wish I’d bought my bobble hat and maybe some mitts. Whilst enjoying the warmth of my cup’a soup, I read in the paper about yet another silly syndrome: seasonal affective disorder. SAD but true, apparently the awful weather this year and the loss of light moving

Le Terroir-isthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14873550925453955695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404789269992309471.post-13548498174168918262007-10-17T02:29:00.001-07:002007-10-17T02:32:38.387-07:00

Autumn is well and truly upon us: chill winds, falling leaves and longer nights create a thirst for sumptuous, warming wines. In the summer months we have a tendency to quaff a great variety of wines with little discrimination. The solace we find in slurping finer wines, demands a more discerning and considerate approach. When spending an evening with one particular wine, curled up on the sofa,

Le Terroir-isthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14873550925453955695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404789269992309471.post-21828808093177610762007-09-17T11:33:00.000-07:002007-09-17T11:39:06.970-07:00

The enormity of this task fills me with dread, but also with a sense of responsibility and excitement. The dread lies with the size of the task at hand: Biodynamics isn’t just a way of farming: it’s an holistic system that looks to revitalise and harness the ‘life-force’ inherent in the natural world (and by world I really mean universe!). The scope of Steiner’s ideology from soil to stars

Le Terroir-isthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14873550925453955695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404789269992309471.post-49208412567071917962007-08-18T05:26:00.000-07:002007-08-18T05:28:10.126-07:00

It ’s been a pretty erratic summer to date and as it’s worn on, so we have hung our hope on later and later reprieves: the promise of an Indian summer is desperately sought. To be fair it hasn’t all been drizzle, they say that has been warmer than average, ultimately though it has been irritatingly unpredictable. A thankless task for the weatherman, but whatever the weather: one thing’s for

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We’re truly into summer now. Spare the odd sausage on the ‘Barbie’, I seem to be eating no meat at all, it’s amazing how the season’s can affect our eating patterns. In the winter you take for granted the comfort that you can eat all things at anytime. Food flies from a different hemisphere to arrive on our plate. Yet despite all things being readily abundant at this time of year, fish is top of

Le Terroir-isthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14873550925453955695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404789269992309471.post-82508944909341562952007-06-02T09:06:00.001-07:002007-06-02T09:12:31.864-07:00

I was visiting pioneer English winemaker Will Davenport the other week, the new vintage of his wondrous Horsmonden Dry White had just been released. Will has 10 acres of vines producing a bottle fermented sparkling wine and the award winning Horsmonden dry. Demand is by far outstripping supply and this year 8 acres of new vines have been planted to capitalise on the new enthusiasm for English

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I wrote this a couple of weeks ago when it was backing hot, with the turn in weather conditions it doesn't feel appropriate now! Hope you enjoy it all the same!Being a gourmand is not an easy task; recipes float in and out of your head and excessive salivation is far too frequent a problem. I was like a golden Labrador puppy yesterday whilst chewing over the idea of griddled romaine lettuce and

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