Catalan Wines
Not finding fault
by Miquel Hudin | 23-03-2021 ~ 2 Comments
A much-delayed visit to Raventós i Blanc in Penedès finally came to fruition last week as we just emerged from "county confinement" to "regional confinement". With a brilliant sun shining upon us after weeks of... more »
With wine information, you get what you pay for
by Miquel Hudin | 05-03-2021 ~ 6 Comments
A little while back on a wine professionals online forum I often interact with, someone asked a great question about where to get information for studying up on the region of Jura as she was... more »
The personal story behind a stock wine photo
by Miquel Hudin | 25-02-2021
If you spend any time in the internet you undoubtedly know these hands holding those grapes. Anyone who has seen anything relating to wine, whether a newsletter or the cover of a well-known magazine will... more »
Why Sherry is reviving
by Miquel Hudin | 22-02-2021 ~ 3 Comments
It's the news that Sherry producers have been waiting literally decades to hear: Sherry sales have increased! As was recently reported in terms of the UK (a principal market for the wine), Sherry sales have... more »
Revisiting the disclosure issue in wine writing
by Miquel Hudin | 20-01-2021 ~ 8 Comments
The assault on journalism never stops. Just within the last week I've seen two grave ethical violations of purported "journalism" in wine, and these are but the latest examples... One was an article about Georgian... more »
Riedel me this!
by Henry Jeffreys | 12-01-2021
I have a guilty secret that I’ve been hiding from the wine world. No, it’s not a sneaking admiration for white Zinfandel, it’s far more embarrassing than that. The truth is that I prefer drinking... more »
ReWine & the bottle: Using a resource in plain sight
by Miquel Hudin | 30-11-2020 ~ 6 Comments
The memories are hazy from when I was a child walking into the first supermarket in my hometown. There was a glass front to the store which let in a stream of daylight. It always... more »
Transparency, in wine certification
by Miquel Hudin | 20-11-2020 ~ 2 Comments
I moved to Berkeley, California to complete a degree in English Literature at the University of California. Coming from a podunk town in the interior of California where most academic challenges top out at giving... more »
From Cape Chianti to hero: Grenache in South Africa
by Malu Lambert | 26-10-2020
“I grew up with Grenache,” shares South African wine legend, Jan Boland Coetzee. His pale blue eyes focused on the verdant Swartland hills from our vantage point on Adi Badenhorst’s porch. The crops and vines... more »
The nitty & gritty about The Wine Instagram
by Elia VS | 09-10-2020 ~ 1 Comment
Lockdown brought about an exponential increase in my social media screen time to the point of saturation and forced me to re-evaluate the good, the bad and the ugly of both Twitter and Instagram. My... more »