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Oh fournication
Last night, wau! what a night!! Well it was a wonderful opportunity, anyway, to taste 10 vintages vertically, all in one go that is, at one… read more
Enjoying Wine
Elena Fucci may well be the most exciting emerging winemaker in all of Italy
Well my dear buggas of de bugga-bloggeea we have a report to report on our favorite Basilicatian Red, Titolo 2016, which will be landed in our… read more
How many Mexicans does it take to…
How many Mexicans does it take to make a pretty good wine from a grape called, wait for it, Tempranillo Blanco? Well the answer is, three… read more
2013 Gran Enemigo Gualtallary Single Vineyard (100/100pts)
The BIG enemy (or maybe not so ‘Gran Enemigo’ after all) 2013 vintage has just arrived, and ALL on the same day that the Argentine National… read more
Competition Fever!
It`s Competiton time! We have just entered bottles of our last, well only, vintage of 2008 ‘Oro Verde’ Malbec de Xuxuy, into the 2018 World Malbec… read more
Nothing wrong with a Porterhouse lunch
Okay, now if you are a faithful reader of the bugga bloggy-blog it could sound like I am always having lunch. Well, you may not be… read more
Hiding or Hyding?
A hiding place or a hyding place? either way Hiding near Hyde Park, who would have guessed? That the now local Yevgeny Alexandrovich Chichvarkin has opened… read more
A rare neon Dompers lights up the tasting…
Who would have thought that this esteemed brand of Champagne would need to put some trick up it’s own sleeve to catch more attention. Well, in… read more
The Clan gather in Palermo (not Sicily)
… okay so it’s not Palermo Sicilia, it’s Palermo Hollywood, wherever that maybe? “fuggedaboutit”. This Thing of Ours got together for a little geographical touching-base with the important… read more
2015 Sassicaia – a ‘classic’ vintage equal to the legendary 1985, JS
Bad information? maybe or perhaps? who really nose… I still cannot, on the whole, get used to reading vinous headlines like this one, and mainly I… read more