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God Bless Paul Draper: ingredient labeling
David Swaddle's insight:Ridge have been listing exactly what's in their wine for a while, mainly because they're proud of it.Should every producer be forced to reveal their ingredients?See it on...
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Moet-Hennessy announces locally-produced sparkling for India | decanter.com
Moet-Hennessy has unveiled plans to release a domestic sparkling wine in India, after investing in the Nashik region north-east of Mumbai.David Swaddle's insight:Moet from India? It's interesting to...
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Comment: The rise of Australia as a wine nation
Australia's national drinking taste is undergoing a dramatic change. Not only are we drinking less overall, but beer no longer dominates the contents of the national glass.David Swaddle's...
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Wine and Cola? It Works
The kalimotxo is wonderfully refreshing, and doesn’t require all that fruit-chopping and waiting. (If the NYTimes says it, it must be true...David Swaddle's insight:No, this isn't the latest thing in...
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Wine in a Can?
I tasted this canned Château de L'ille wine at the SIAL food innovation exhibition in Paris, obviously served to me in a glass. What are we to make of this?David Swaddle's insight:Wine in a...
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Why the snobbery over corks?
A new wine cork that screws into the bottle is being unveiled. But why is there still so much snobbery in the battle between traditional cork and screw-top?David Swaddle's insight:A good look at...
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Virginia seeks to be ‘wine capital’ of the East Coast
David Swaddle's insight:IMHO Virginia really stands a chance of being the East Coast's leading wine state. Great Viogniers and some cracking Cab blends, particulary Barboursville's Octagon...
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Wine-tasting: it's junk science
Experiments have shown that people can't tell plonk from grand cru. Now one US winemaker claims that even experts can't judge wine accurately. What's the science behind the taste?David Swaddle's...
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Monastrell: It’s From Murcia
A recent tasting tour in Murcia, Spain, proved that the region's now producing high-quality Monastrell with great vitality and vibrancy—and at great prices. The post Monastrell: It’s From Murcia...
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Cola Flavored Wine to Launch in France - It's Just WRONG!
Cola Flavored Wine to Launch in FranceDavid Swaddle's insight:It looks like some people will stop at nothing to make money.Haussmann Famille has launched a 75% wine, 25% cola pre-mix drink aimed...
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Sense of smell has a genetic flavour - New Scientist
Researchers have identified the first signs of a genetic basis to the differences in people's odour perceptionDavid Swaddle's insight:If you've got a great sense of smell, then thank your mum and dad....
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Spotlight: The Paarl Wine Region of South Africa | Wine Life Today
The Paarl region of South Africa is home to a wide variety of white, red and sparkling wines.David Swaddle's insight:My experiences of Paarl are mixed, but here's a little intro to the region.See it...
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Wine: confessions of a pinot noir addict
'This is a bad frame of mind to have got into,' Fiona Beckett says, 'because good pinot is eye-wateringly expensive'David Swaddle's insight:The Guardian's Fiona Beckett 'fesses up to being pinot...
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UK Wine guide infographic | Regional wine map for the UK - Borro.com
Our wine lovers guide to the UK has been designed as a broad, current and interactive regional map including prize winning wines, vineyards and festivals.David Swaddle's insight:An informal...
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Le journal de 13h - Villages viticoles : Saint-Emilion (2/5)
Avec ses grands crus classés, Saint-Emilion attirent les amateurs de vin qui découvrent aussi une cité médiévale regorgeant d'autres trésors.David Swaddle's insight:St-Emilion really is one of the...
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Step aside, coffee maker. Make room for the wine machine.
PARIS -- A French startup is looking to let consumers sample the country’s best vintages at home with single servings, doing for wine what Nespresso did for coffee.David Swaddle's insight:Wine for the...
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Is everything we know about wine wrong? - Telegraph
Every year, judges give out medals to the world’s best wines. But an undercover investigator is questioning their taste buds and asking if ‘connoisseurs’ even existDavid Swaddle's insight:I tend to...
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AWESOME THING WE DRANK #678 | The Idiosyncratic Tahbilk Marsanne 2010 ... -...
Scout Magazine (blog) AWESOME THING WE DRANK #678 | The Idiosyncratic Tahbilk Marsanne 2010 ... Scout Magazine (blog) Tahbilk's ties to the rare, French-born Marsanne grape stretches back to the...
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Champagne council launches e-learning programme
Champagne’s governing body has launched its first e-learning programme, Champagne Campus, in an effort to inform and educate younger consumers in particular. David Swaddle's insight:Bubbly...
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Terroir: how fungi, yeasts and bacteria affect the taste of your wine
I have two bottles of wine in front of me. Both are chardonnay from the Yarra Valley 2013 vintage, and made in exactly the same way in the same winery, Oakridge. But they don’t taste the same. One is...
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