Vorsprung durch wein: Introducing Kloster Eberbach
Yeah ok, so our German was pretty limited (zwei bier, bitte!) but our heads spun and palates gushed with new experiences and flavours in the Rheingau at the end of last summer.
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“Das cool”: Introducing Weingut Bischel
We're delighted to introduce to the portfolio this month, three new wineries and 20 new wines from Germany that are over two years in the sourcing. We had a trip to the Rhine Valley all booked for April 2020, the first full month of lockdown all across Europe as Covid upended our lives.
Exclusive 1970s Rioja Gran Reserva Release
Probably the most exciting release and buying opportunity we’ve had the privilege to present in our 13 years in business. Bodegas Corral is the winery behind Don Jacobo, the Rioja wines a lot of you are familiar with from the last year or so since we started importing and distributing them.
Los Corrales de Moncalvillo and the curious tale of the Maturana Tinta of Navarrete
This is the sort of wine we exist for and precisely why we aspiringly named ourselves Curious Wines back in 2008. This is Maturana Tinta de Navarrete, a grape deemed lost to history until modern testing revealed it to be unique and unrelated to anything else grown in Rioja.
New Alsace: Introducing La Cave du Vieil Armand
La Cave du Vieil Armand is one of the smallest cooperative cellars in Alsace, pulling together the vineyards and generational expertise of 80 wine growing families across 10 municipalities.
The beautiful hill (and wines) of Colli Orientali del Friuli
Colli Orientali del Friuli (free-oo-lee) is the most renowned DOC in the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region of north-east Italy, its calcareous and sandstone soils combined with Alpine geography and altitudes making it capable of producing world class white wines and some of the very best in Italy.
Pigs, Vermentino and Baby Super Tuscans: The Il Muro Family Farm, Tuscany
Il Muro estate has been owned by the Pancaro family for more than two centuries.
New Super Tuscans: Meet “the Guv’nor”
Something completely new here, folks. 'Governo' is a winemaking technique going back to 14th century Tuscany whereby a proportion of the harvest is held back, partially dried and then added to the already fermenting first portion of the harvest.
Coronavirus update: business (nearly) as usual
UPDATE AS OF 16/4/2020We are managing to dispatch everything on time but please allow an extra 1-2 days on normal delivery times while the Covid-19 shutdown continues. This is due to courier capacities being exceeded in certain areas.
Finding the Grail: the vineyards of Nardò and the divine wines of Schola Sarmenti
I've mentioned before my stock reply to the oft-asked question I get in the shop, "what's your favourite wine out of all of them?". It's like asking me which of my kids is my favourite — it depends on the day. Schola Sarmenti is unapologetically my favourite child right now.
Parental Advisory: Sam Brannigan & Nelson’s Kahurangi Estate
About a million years ago, when my now early teens were in nappies and we were just getting Curious Wines off the ground, I met Sam Brannigan at a wine tasting in Enniskillen.
On the detective trail to Bergerac
So I have to confess, up until very recently whenever someone mentioned "Bergerac" my immediate thoughts would go to John Nettles driving around Jersey in a Triumph roadster*.
Taste the Gravels: the new world classics of Hawke’s Bay
The last of the new finds for this year, from one of the world's furthest wine outposts (well from Cork anyway) and New Zealand's oldest winegrowing region, Hawke's Bay.
‘A Leviathan bottle to end all comparisons’: the 99 point Moorooroo Shiraz
Amidst the Schild family estate in Australia's Barossa Valley lie four rows of gnarled, ancient Shiraz vines, planted in 1847 by Johan and William Jacob (of the famed creek), just eleven years after the foundation of South Australia.
You’ll Never Walk Alone — Claymore Wines Part II
A couple of weeks ago we introduced the eye-catching (and utterly gorgeous) Claymore Wines, a new range of music-inspired labels from Australia's Clare Valley including the Joshua Tree Riesling, Bittersweet Symphony Cabernet and Dark Side of the Moon Shiraz.
You had me at “chocolate”… Introducing Zonte’s Footstep
Chocolate Factory | Shiraz | McLaren Vale from Zonte's Footstep on Vimeo. Many of you will be familiar with our stand-out wine of last year, newcomer Elysian Springs' Spring Lamb Syrah, from Australia's Adelaide Hills.
Kangaroo Where? Introducing The Islander Estate Vineyards
Six months previously we'd never even heard of Kangaroo Island but in planning our trip to Australia I went straight to looking for wineries on the hunch that just off the south Australian mainland someone would have planted vines there.
Rocking Clare Valley: Claymore Wines Part I
Claymore Wines founder and owner, Anura Nitchingham, has three great loves in his life – wine, music and football – and he celebrates all of them through the winery he began in the 1990s, having arrived there with his family after a successful medical career in the UK.
Australia's Winemaker of the Year 2018: Paul Hotker, Bleasdale
[caption id="attachment_13078" align="alignnone" width="600"] Paul Hotker of Bleasdale: James Halliday's Winemaker of the Year for 2018[/caption]THE FIRST BOTTLES of Bleasdale Wines in Ireland landed into our small (and constantly freezing cold!) warehouse in Bandon in late 2009.
Australia’s Winemaker of the Year 2018: Paul Hotker, Bleasdale
The first bottles of Bleasdale Wines in Ireland landed into our small (and constantly freezing cold!) warehouse in Bandon in late 2009. We were just over a year old and planning our first direct shipments from Australia the following Spring.
L'Ecriture Terrasses du Larzac – in 30+ Michelin starred restaurants!
Le Mas de l’Ecriture ('ecriture' means 'scripture'), run by Pascal Fulla (who enjoyed 20 years as a 'juriste', or legal expert, before, in a carpe diem moment, turning to wine) and his daughter Lea, is situated in the south of France, a short drive from Montpellier.
Finding the Holy Grail
In search of the grailWE OFTEN TALK IN CURIOUS about finding the grail in wine terms - those wines that look great, massively over-deliver for their price point, and give us something resembling a religious experience on drinking.
Bleasdale's Aussie vineyards welcome winter flooding!
Hotker gushes over timely floods(Dispatch from South Oz: weather update via Bleasdale Winemaker Paul Hotker. )Hi Curious!Hope all is well and you’re enjoying summer. We’re having an excellent winter and have had the best floods for years.
'K-Pot' NO-SULPHITES-ADDED Malbec now at Curious!
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