Read the latest press mentions for Winter 2022.
Author: Drew Slowe
Zambartas Winery
The Zambartas Winery is the brainchild of the late Akis Zambartas. Revered as a legend in modern Cypriot winemaking, he was the first islander to formally study oenology, receiving a degree from the University of Montpellier, as well as a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Lyon. As head winemaker at the island’s KEO…
Domaine de la Denante
Named after nearby river La Denante which runs through the village of Davayé just West of the city of Mâcon, Domaine de la Denante was established in 1975 by Damien’s father Robert Martin, with just two and a half hectares of vines. The winery itself is at the foot of the historic Rock of Solutré…
Familie Mantler: Honest, down to earth, good.
Located 60 kilometres north-west of Vienna in the Weinviertel, Austria’s northernmost winegrowing region and its largest by both volume of production and geographically, Familie Mantler is and has always been a family-run operation since it was first established. For over 100 years the privately owned land was farmed to mixed agriculture, often changing speciality from one year to the next until 1977, when a then 18-year-old Karl Mantler…
Aslina Wines
It is with small steps that great people effect great change, and this is exactly what Ntsiki Biyela embodies within the South African wine industry. Originally from Mahlabathini, a rural village in KwaZulu-Natal, Ntsiki won a scholarship to study Viticulture and Oenology at Stellenbosch University in 1999, graduating in 2003. She was often posed questions…
Mushroom and Beetroot Pithivier with Diced Potatoes and Carrot Purée
It is so much easier to be a vegetarian in the 21st century than it was even 15 years ago, and with some two and three Michelin star restaurants providing exclusively plant-based menus, or food cultures based entirely around local and vegetarian produce, there are some clearly exciting foods to be found the world over.…
Moschopolis: In the Shadow of Mount Olympus
Located in the Pontic village of Monopigado which sits around 500 metres above the port of Thessaloniki, Moschopolis exists in the shadow and magnificence of Mount Olympus. The winery was established by Dr. Georgios Germanis, a chemical soil specialist with decades of experience in both the vineyard and the cellar. Famed for his research and…
Pork Shoulder with ‘Mexican Dauphinoise Potatoes’
The intention of this feature is not to tell you how to cook, neither is it to convince you that this one bottle or that one bottle is the only partner to a particular dish. Rather, it is to encourage readers to think about why certain things work together; to enable you to make easy,…
Lubanzi: Top-notch wines with irrefutable ethics
The idea for Lubanzi as we know it today, was birthed when co-founders Charlie Brain and Walker Brown were backpacking along South Africa’s Wild Coast in 2014. ‘Lubanzi’ is the name given to the wild dogs that roam the area, including the one which chose to match the boys stride for stride on their six-day,…
The ‘Old Vine’ Question
To consider the perceived qualitative differences in ‘old vine’ fruit we must first define the term, and this begins with Phylloxera – the pest which decimated European vineyards throughout the 19th century. The damage caused and the efforts to combat and restore the wine industry during this time dictated a necessary shift in viticultural practices,…
