Pretty Pet-nat – ancient wine
Pet-nat is totally booming! If you want to keep up with the hype as a wine bar, restaurant or winemaker, you have to serve or produce a pet-nat. Totally fun of course,...
Category: Wine discoveries
The best wine bars in Amsterdam- here are my favorites
The wine bar is great. For me one of the best discoveries of the past five-hundred years, together with gel nail polish and the wheel. I mean what’s better than a place...
Alberello – a pruning method with deep roots in the past
A visit to a vineyard is always inspiring. It brings you closer to nature and reminds you of life. Masses of green leaves resonate with fertility in an almost religious way. My...
The Mosel Valley – Riesling with an ancient history
We are allowed out of the country! Yes! Because of those months of Covid misery, you’d almost forget that there are great wine regions around the corner from Amsterdam, well, almost around...
In bed with Pignolo, La Tunella – the discovery of 2020
We know by now I’m a chatterbox. On social media, especially Instagram, I ask people – to annoyance – what their favourite wine is. Why do you think? Certainly not because I...
Pays d’Oc IGP – affordable pearls and hidden treasures
Review Pitch Pr For this article I tasted a wine from the Pays d’Oc that I received from Pitch PR. The purpose is to write a creative review in order to have...
Great grapes of Germany – an introduction
Germany has a history of winemaking that dates back to 100 B.C. It is one of the most northern wine producing countries in the world and produces wines that are dry as...
The gold of Alentejo
Let’s start with some curiosities about Alentejo wines. There are about 166 wine producers in Alentejo. The producers are distributed in 8 Controlled Denomination of Origin areas – Portalegre, Borba, Redondo, Reguengos,...
Rosé – ultimate freedom in a glass
I really like rosé. Not the cheap way – nice full glass with ice cubes. Not the snobbish way: “I only drink Provence and if the rosé doesn’t have the colour of...
The wonderful wines from Salento
If there’s one thing I love, it’s wine. Especially wine parcels in the mail. Especially when they’re from Italy. For anyone who thinks I’ve become a wine blogger for passion, think again....
Vin de Constance
Region – Cape Town, South Africa. Soil – Decomposed Granite Soil. Vin de Constance a sweet luscious and excellent wine made from 100% Muscat de Frontignan has 330 years of history of...
Wines of Quebec
History of Quebec wines Since the earlier years of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain noticed wild grapes and assumed the possibility to grow vines in this new settlement. He planted French grapes which...
Lodi- heart of the old vine Zinfandel
Oh California, I first visited California in my early twenties. I fell in love with the climate and freedom of Los Angeles. The breeze of the west coast is something you won’t...
Dutch glory – A dip in Dutch wine
Dutch wine deserves more attention, I’m sure you wine lovers agree with me. I notice that even the people with whom I share this little country still far too often choose a...
Ribera del Duero – Te quiero mucho
When I think of Spain, I always think of big, mysterious, dark, broad-shouldered… wines. And especially the wines from Ribera del Duero, a wine region in the northwest of Spain. The area...
