BERNHARD OTT (AUSTRIA): HIGHLY NATURAL WINE
Press release – April 2010
Winemaker Bernhard Ott (Wagram, Lower Austria) has fulfilled a long-held dream: during the 2009 harvest, he made a wine with methods used thousands of years ago. Entirely naturally and practically without any intervention.
Ott returned to the roots of European wine culture and bought [...]
JOHN COCHRAN PASSED AWAY
I was just visiting the website of BIODYVIN (Biodynamics winemakers syndicate) and read the bad news…
“Tous les vignerons Biodyvin ont la profonde douleur de vous faire part du décès de John Cochran, époux de Véronique Cochran, vignerons au Château Falfas depuis 1988.”
A very, very sad news. John Cochran passed away peacefully on March 13. His [...]
MILLESIME BIO 2010 – EXTRA – CLAIRETTE DE BELLEGARDE
In the Netherlands, but also in all touristic places at the Languedoc sea-side, the chance is huge that if you ask for a wine match with fish, sea-shells or crustaceans, you will get the advice to buy a glass or bottle of … picpoul de Pinet. Well, the most picpoul de Pinet that I tasted, [...]
MILLESIME BIO 2010 – DAY 3
The third day, Wednesday, was much more ‘relax’ than the first two, it looked like as if the most buyers were gone… We had only 1/2 day tasting, the rest of the day was planned by our guests, the press agency CLAIR DE LUNE (Marie Gaudel) for visits and a ‘dégustation dinatoire’ (tasting + dinner) [...]
MILLESIME BIO 2010 – DAY 1
MILLESIME BIO started on Monday January 25… 3 days of tastings, interviews, chats, conferences, visits…
Update 25-01-2010: first day at MILLESIME BIO. Wow, what a big change in years… From Mas de Saporta to Narbonne, than one year to Perpignan and one to Montpellier, now definitely (at least for a while) at the Parc des Expositions [...]
