Behind the wines
TFWATH 2024 x Arribas Wine Company
I write with happy news of TFWATH collaboration number eight: the invalid vintage, the proxy vintage. Two weeks before harvest was due to start, like a great big dilbert, I...
TFWATH 2024 x Arribas Wine Company
I write with happy news of TFWATH collaboration number eight: the invalid vintage, the proxy vintage. Two weeks before harvest was due to start, like a great big dilbert, I...
The New (But Actually Very Old) Jerez
I love Sherry. How can you not? It's saltily delicious, it's a wine with its own language, its own culture, its own spirit. These days, Sherry is completely synonymous with the region known as...
The New (But Actually Very Old) Jerez
I love Sherry. How can you not? It's saltily delicious, it's a wine with its own language, its own culture, its own spirit. These days, Sherry is completely synonymous with the region known as...
The Peru harvest and TFWATH Quebranta 2023
Warmest how dos from Peru, where, by the grace of pachamama, I'm currently stationed to make my fourth southern hemisphere wine: Quebranta 2023...
The Peru harvest and TFWATH Quebranta 2023
Warmest how dos from Peru, where, by the grace of pachamama, I'm currently stationed to make my fourth southern hemisphere wine: Quebranta 2023...
Making wine the old way in Bío-Bío
It’s a misty morning on April 25 2019 and in Roberto's HiLux 4x4 we're slaloming past rogue chickens on potholed dirt roads to Millapoa. This backwater village on the bank...
Making wine the old way in Bío-Bío
It’s a misty morning on April 25 2019 and in Roberto's HiLux 4x4 we're slaloming past rogue chickens on potholed dirt roads to Millapoa. This backwater village on the bank...
Harvest in the cradle of wine - part two
A month has passed, and I'm whiling away a few hours on a stopover in Athens, on my way back from Georgia to the UK. Time to think. There hasn't been much...
Harvest in the cradle of wine - part two
A month has passed, and I'm whiling away a few hours on a stopover in Athens, on my way back from Georgia to the UK. Time to think. There hasn't been much...
Harvest in the cradle of wine - part one
Vine-garlanded greetings from Imereti in Georgia - the very birthplace of wine. I've been here for a few weeks now... (time slips away from me... is it three? Four?) After...
Harvest in the cradle of wine - part one
Vine-garlanded greetings from Imereti in Georgia - the very birthplace of wine. I've been here for a few weeks now... (time slips away from me... is it three? Four?) After...