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🇧🇬🇬🇷🇭🇺As you'll have seen I was at @thejollymerchants first ever portfolio tasting on Tuesday recording podcasts with three of their producers from Greece, Bulgaria and Hungary.
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⏳While you wait to hear these next week here's Jolly Merchants Director and co-founder Georgi telling us more about the day - set in the gorgeous Bulgarian Embassy in South Kensington
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🍷👌🏽Great to see such passion, which was mirrored in the producers and the wines🔥 taken in Embassy of Bulgaria, London by @interpretingwine

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2 days ago

😍🍾🧀First time in @nekterdeli for an evening tasting and what a way to break my duck!
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A few hours spent in the company of Patrick Sullivan @patricksullivanwine is always a good time 🥂
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🌧️🌧️Patrick works exclusively with Chardonnay from Gippsland Australia. A wetland rainforest that looks like Ireland. 1300mm of rain per year will do that!
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Under cloudy skies and summer temperatures that average around 28° their growing season is so long that harvest sometimes stretches into May (the equivalent of November in the Northern hemisphere🤯🤯🤯)
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🇦🇺Even more incredible this is just over an hour away from Melbourne. Australia is so diverse and it was a good reminder for me to stop thinking of it as one country! One which I'd love to explore again as I hear they keep most of the best stuff to drink for themselves 😅
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👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽 Patrick showed four amazing wines, which for me just got better as the flight went on. From the start the Limestone Coast (a steal at £23) things got more detailed as we explored the Camp Hill, Bull Swamp and Ada River growing sites.
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Ada River was the star among stars for me. A wine that Patrick can only make 2 out of every 3 years, as the fruit doesn't always get ripe enough. Great acid and complexity from fruit grown on North and South facing slopes. Winemaking on the edge
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A real labour of love from a great guy who's obviously a wine lover. We got to taste all his hard work and focus in the vineyard.
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✈️Safe travels home Patrick. And thankfully he's leaving some wine for us to enjoy here. Imported into the UK by @liberty_wines taken in Nekter Deli by @interpretingwine

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9 days ago

Final stop on Monday - @gwgptrade trade tasting. Hosted by @jenwineweekends and @dbcheesynyc at @bedaleswines
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Best compliment of all my planned two hour pop in turned into (at least) double that🤣
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Whenever @gwgptrade have a trade tasting it's the easiest one to say yes to, given
🍷 Amazing wines
🌎 eclectic regions - from Nova Scotia @lwwines to New York @apollospraise @fjordvineyards @empireestateflx and of course Austria😍 @seegut_lentsch @nestor.wine @weinguthartl @allacher_vinum_pannonia @weingutgattinger @weinrieder.wine
🥩🥖🧀 amazing food from Bedales
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✈️✈️Not to mention getting to catch up with two of their producers who made a special journey to be there Elena and Ryan @cantinamessori @masdelabundancia and brought their lovely wines, several of which were new to me
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Special mention to @masdelabundancia rosé which I could drink year round!
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Awesome night. Great discoveries. And the wine community was out in force! @winewithian @amantewine @alicegriffithswine
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👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽Don't forget to check out goodwinegoodpeople.com or @gwgptrade for the trade taken in Bedales of Borough by @interpretingwine

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10 days ago

Stop 2 of the day was the @vintagerootsltd annual tasting celebrating 40 years🎊🎊
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🌧️Only cloud on the day was @meinklang_farm winemaker Werner getting his passport stolen on the way to the tasting🇦🇹😬
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🇪🇸🥂However David and Adria from @albetinoya stepped in with an amazing Xarel.lo masterclass covering two still wines and a couple of sparklers from 12 and 14. Such great wines!
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A quick tasting of all the Meinklang wines and a deep dive into a new producer to me @barone_pizzini_1870.
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Silvano took me through their three properties and we tasted Franciacorta, vermentino and sangiovese. The diversity and quality spoke for itself!
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😎Loved that @vintagerootsltd showed us their journey through the last 40 years. Here's to the next 40.
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Thanks Sally for your ace organising (as ever) and team Vintage Roots🍾 taken in Royal Society of Chemistry Venue Hire by @interpretingwine

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11 days ago

What a brilliant start to a busy tasting Monday
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Watching the UK final of the Copa Jerez @orreryrestaurant
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As you may remember I was lucky enough to attend the grand final in Jerez back in 2019, so knew this would be a fiercely contested event
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And if course it was with sommelier and chef pairs from three top restaurants battling it out for a place in the 2027 grand final in Spain @labombebytrivet @lecordonbleulondon @theritzlondon
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As shown on the cover the team from the Ritz triumphed with their 'truly inspiring pairings that brought spectacle and craft directly to the table'
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Of course I love that the judges appreciated the storytelling from the winning team. Bringing in the link with Spain and included a Manzanilla and a Moscatel😎👌🏽 @douglasblyde @pierreminotti @zoednd @london.wine_jdtswine
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Well done team Ritz who head to the grand final in Jerez next summer.
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#copajerez #sherrylover taken in Orrery by @interpretingwine

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11 days ago

🇸🇰 Don't sleep on Slovakian wine! 🍷
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Flashback to a great tasting at Slovakian embassy this Monday
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@thenaughtygrapeuk got things started with a virtual journey around Slovakia with Lucia Dovalova covering all styles of wine. All with local grapes and showing different sides of production.
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A lot of focus is being placed on growing exports and the experimentation will be interesting to target markets like UK, Japan and Scandinavia.
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The opportunity is in creating ambassadors and equipping them with the stories and materials to represent this small but mighty country in key markets across the globe.
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Out in the tasting I visited three producers, starting with Jakub Nichta @vino_nichta trying their gorgeous sekt, Riesling and frankovka modra (blaufrankisch). They are on the lookout for new export markets.
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Next up was @viajursk where I met Lubos Bogar. More amazing bubbles, this time blanc de blanc. A blend of pinot blanc and pinot gris and the red dunaj. Another producer actively looking to grow their international presence.
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They are Svaty Jur neighbours of friends @nabosovino
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Finally I visited @chateau_ruban and read
Was treated to several new varieties by Kristian and Milan. This was a new growing area for me, with its tradition of crossing grape varieties. With names like hossa, Noria and hron.
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All in all a great experience that shows how far it's possible to travel with a great wine in your hand and the local experts at your side.
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Thanks to all organisers and participating wineries🇸🇰🍷 taken in Embassy of Slovakia, London by @interpretingwine

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15 days ago

Hopefully toasting @weingutfaberkoechl a successful 2026 harvest
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*Swipe to the end to meet the winemaker Anna Faber🇦🇹
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The wine is a great reflection of the place.
There's a gorgeous balance of complexity and freshness.
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Very much its own expression of gruner veltliner

Back in June all was quiet at the modern feeling winery

I even got to see the compost and market garden
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Followed by an incredibly tasty lunch prepared by Maria.
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I felt very lucky to be at the family table with great food, wine and company🥂

Thanks Anna, Gabriel and Maria
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Hope 2026 was kind to you and look forward to catching up properly soon🍾 taken in Weingut Faber-Köchl by @interpretingwine

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21 days ago

🍷Looking back on an amazing launch event for davidgleavewines new book Barolo and Barbaresco: The Primacy of the Vine - published October 1 by @academieduvinlibrary
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We were treated to an incredible lineup of wines accompanied by producer story notes in the tasting booklet.
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Before David gave us more detail on the writing process. (A book he half jokingly said took him 43 years to write) and the region
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I was happy to hear the changing culture of the region plays a key part in the book too.
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For me there's something unique about understanding a wine region beyond the map knowledge and getting to understand what often goes unsaid.
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It sounds like there's a fascinating shared history that still influences modern attitudes
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Thanks again to @hermione7031 and team for putting on a memorable event!
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#advl #prinvite taken in The Don Restaurant by @interpretingwine

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23 days ago

Update on the app competition. We didn't win (this time) but what a great experience!
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Going from 53 entries to the 11-strong shortlist with an app I built without any coding knowledge. I'll take that 😎
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*SPOILER ALERT*
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The app I built - Cellar Soundbites - already exists as a service. Allowing regions and producers to deliver an in-depth audio experience to users.
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This example features @breestockmw talking all things @wa_state_wine
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Please have a look at interpretingwine.com/washington and let me know what you think 🍷🔊 taken in Interpreting Wine by @interpretingwine

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25 days ago

🔥What a great start to the week!
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The Cellar Soundbites app I built in @macalycom has been shortlisted in the great British Build Off
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We are down to the last 11 and the top 3 will be announced this afternoon🤞🏽
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This competition invited entrepreneurs to build an app that solves a unique problem using a no code tool!
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I'm so happy to have built this app as I started to build it over two years ago using a tool called replit. At the time I couldn't get anything worthwhile out of the process and gave up😬
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😎But last week at ideas fest, I spoke with a fellow entrepreneur who said I should enter. After then speaking with the @team.blue.hub team I was excited to try again with their tool.
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I found them super engaged in my idea and they really opened up the future possibilities of what I could build. Which are ultimately much bigger and more exciting than I had initially imagined
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Such a great opportunity and I recommend you trying the tool and building an app or website for fun!
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V1 of Cellar Soundbites is live at www.interpretingwine.com/csapp taken in Ideas Fest by @interpretingwine

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a month ago

Please vote for my Cellar Soundbites app at thegreatbritishbuildoff.co.uk/vote
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Deadline: 12pm today! Friday 11 September

Link in bio taken in Interpreting Wine by @interpretingwine

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🇺🇾🍷Reflecting on a brilliant Uruguay Top 10 tasting yesterday @uruguay.wine @amanda_wine
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Everything from the venue to the music and the empanadas set the scene perfectly for the wines
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I was lucky enough to join Amanda's sold out masterclass which included a tasting of her top 10 wines. The rest of the tasting showcased the top 10 emerging wines and top 10 value wines. 30 wines in total 😍
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I came away with a fresh appreciation for this country that while being bigger than England has a population of 3 million compared with our 56 million.
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In Uruguay agriculture is king. Their biggest exports are beef and many crops including soy beans, dairy and thankfully increasing amounts of wine!
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I was really happy to see that almost half of the 30 wines on show have importers in the UK. Many South American specialists like @vinoslatinos @milestonewinesuk @condor_wines @ucopiawinesltd as well as @enotria.uk
@boutinotwines @liberty_wines carry the wines
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Lastly a word for the quality. I feel like Uruguayan wines get better each time I try them. And now run the full gamut from red to sparkling.
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All really tasty with or without food and reflecting Uruguay's mild humid climate that sits on a backdrop of Atlantic coastline, beaches and rolling plains.
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If you haven't already, download your copy of Amanda's Top 10 Uruguay report at www.southamericawineguide.com/uruguay10
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Salud! taken in Paladar by @interpretingwine

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