The British sweet tooth
A couple of interactions I’ve enjoyed over the last few weeks have been, firstly a Facebook comment about a certain wine – The Guvnor...
A beautifully bucolic bodega
Part two – The wines
Like a number of wineries in Spain, Bodegas Vera de Estenas makes wine under the auspices of two different of...
Carie’s birthday wines
With birthday dates but eleven days apart it seemed only right that mother and daughter, Ros and Carie, should have a two-week long celebration...
Cheeky wines from Maison Ventenac
The antithesis of orthodoxy, Maison Ventenac prefers a nonconformist approach to wine making. Having tasted a few wines in their impressive portfolio I’m all...
Denominación de Origen Cangas
One of the best things about the recent Barcelona Wine Week (BWW) that I attended recently, was the opportunity to visit the stands of...
Lamenting the paucity of half bottles
I’m deliberately only writing about one wine this week, which is quite unusual for Cork Talk, as regular readers will know. The wine concerned...
Les verres de vin, en France!
I could hardly wish for a better location to write this week’s Cork Talk! I’m sitting on the banks of the River Vezere, in...
La Niña de Cuenca
It’s possible that you didn’t hear my recent Wine Show on Valley FM (you can catch it here https://soundcloud.com/user-789233062/valley-vibes-6-june-1200-1300) where I tasted and talked...
Is there racism in the wine sector?
In the wake of recent tragic events in the USA I think that perhaps many of us have been reviewing our attitudes to racial...
Concept wines
Concept wines, hmm – I think I might have just coined a phrase!
So, what exactly do I mean? Well, I’ve recently been in contact...
Wines to die for!
“Our wines are a blend of the traditional and contemporary and genuinely reflect the outstanding characteristics of their unique and distinct personality.”
I couldn’t have...
A beautifully bucolic bodega
I looked rather younger when I first met Felix Martinez. It seems the passage of time has been kinder to my old friend than...
Gone fishing!
Does it still count as plagiarism if it’s your own words you’re pilfering, and from a different medium?
I ask because today’s Cork Talk title...
Château Poulvère
If I’d also included the AOCs (Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée) under whose auspices Château Poulvère works in the title of today’s Cork Talk, I’d have...
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