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Vineyard – November 2020 – Acid trip

Vineyard November 2020 Acid Trip www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk  This is the very first time in my life that I have recommended three wines that I don’t love.  I really like them, but love is not yet in the air.  This because these wines are all, officially, too young to drink and this is, most definitely, a good thing.  I am starting to spot a…
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Vineyard – October 2020 – Listen In

Vineyard October 2020 Listen In www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk We all recognise that Covid-19 has been ruthless and indiscriminate.  All manner of wine tasting events have been cancelled and those that are still sitting in our diaries, in pencil, are in danger of being rubbed out, too.  One of the biggest wine tasting casualties of 2020 was the annual…
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Vineyard – September 2020 – Throwing out the Rule Book

Vineyard September 2020 Throwing out the Rule Book www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk  I have written about rebels before on this page and it sparked a fair amount of debate.  I mentioned that there is nothing worse than a fake rebel and nothing more exciting and dynamic than a real one – as long as the wines stack up.  This month I am taking this non-conformist…
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Vineyard – August 2020 – King of Clubs

Vineyard - August 2020 King of Clubs www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk There is a huge amount of skill involved in running a successful club.  It’s a balancing act involving trying to attract the ‘right’ members, giving them top quality service and then doing all you can to make them return and spend more money with you.  Members benefits are the…
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Vineyard – July 2020 – Still Improving

Vineyard - July 2020 Still Improving www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk  I drink an awful lot more still wine than I do sparkling.  I have never really considered what the ratio is exactly, but if I opened more than one bottle of fizz per fortnight I would be surprised.  I don’t think that this is unusual either.  With our homegrown industry focussing…
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Vineyard – June 2020 – Sustainability is Vital

Vineyard - June 2020 Sustainability is Vital www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk If you said, ‘name two sustainable wineries’ to me, my knee jerk response would be Ancre Hill and Forty Hall.   Sustainability is now so vital to us and our planet that its message ought to be woven into every single business alive, but it is not.  It is a real pain the…
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Vineyard – May 2020 – Looking North

Vineyard - May 2020 Looking North www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk I have never visited a vineyard north of London.  Having said this, I have never visited Argentina or Chile which people think very odd because I am a wine writer and I ought to have been everywhere.  Not so – I taste wine and write about taste.  I don’t write about travel.  In…
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Vineyard – April 2020 – Newcomers All

Vineyard - April 2020 Newcomers All www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk  Henry Sugden asks his clients to inform him and his winemakers what style of wine they would like them to make.  This informed style defines the wine that Rob Merrick and Poppy Seeley aim for in the winery and it also helps Henry to back up their vinous alchemy with rafts of business…
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Vineyard – March 2020 – Hampshire

Vineyard - March 2020 Hampshire www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk I was born in Hampshire and I lived there for my first seven years.  Belgium, Berkshire, Kent and London are my other stops along the way but I think I feel Hampshire-ish, if I was forced to pin myself down to a single county.  But why should I feel moved to do this, after all I don’t…
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Vineyard – February 2020 – Food for Thought

Vineyard  - February 2020 Food for Thought www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk There is a popular term in the wine business for bottles which seem a little more structured, youthful or edgy than usual.  You will have heard it over and over again at wine tastings – ‘it’s a food wine’.  Everyone nods sagely when this expression is trotted out. …
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Vineyard – January 2020 – Fine Wine Finally

Vineyard - January 2020 Fine Wine Finally www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk We live in an era of wanting and getting generic ‘stuff’ delivered to our home without delay.  Purchases which, in the pre-internet days, might have taken weeks to order and arrive now take hours.  I am grateful to companies who deliver boxes of photocopy paper to my door…
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Vineyard – December 2019 – Wines to watch in 2020

Vineyard December 2019 Wines to watch in 2020 www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk It has been fun.  2019 was a year of huge upheaval in the UK wine scene with a difficult harvest this autumn, a lot of wine swilling around thanks to last year’s 2018s bumper crop, a large number of new labels popping up and feverish new plantings being slammed into the ground…
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