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3 weeks ago |
newstatesman.com | Andrew Jefford
March’s second day this year was a Sunday. My brother and I walked the Sussex South Downs. Almost three months since midwinter, the freshly peeled air drenched the leafless woods and hills with pale light. Yellow crocuses quietly exploded in the grass; the first larks unspooled their ribbon of song above. At lunchtime, we dipped down to the Ram in Firle. We sat at a bare table in its dark, womb-like dining room with our beloved hatchlings: two pints of Harvey’s.
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3 weeks ago |
worldoffinewine.com | Andrew Jefford
Andrew Jefford, Susan Hulme MW, and Michael Palij MW look for depth amid the easy charm as they taste the 2020 Barolo vintage. 2020 Barolo: More than comfortable? Poderi Luigi Einaudi Barolo Monvigliero Verduno 2020 (14.5% ABV) |94SH | The color is mid-ruby without any evolution. The nose is softly fragrant and enticing, a hedonistic mix of floral notes, such as iris, violet, and rose, as well as ripe red cherry in alcohol.
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3 weeks ago |
decanter.com | Andrew Jefford
There’ll be a snowy photo of the vines in winter, or merry harvesters throwing their baskets in the air, with a scrawled signature. Occasionally I’m sent a list of wines with all the scores obtained in the previous year, like a wonk’s school report; or I get a request for a date – at one of the wine fairs the owners will soon attend. I glance, note… recycle. And then out tumbled this: ‘What I Believe: Welcome to the corner of my consciousness.’ I unfolded the brightly coloured A2 sheet.
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3 weeks ago |
worldoffinewine.com | Andrew Jefford
Andrew Jefford introduces a tasting of 2020 Barolo shared with Susan Hulme MW and Michael Palij MW. It was a year of acute discomfort among human beings—with Italy the first European nation to ask its citizens, on March 9, 2020, to stay home in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile a season of relative serenity unfolded in the vineyards of the Langhe. Nature’s salve, perhaps?
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3 weeks ago |
worldoffinewine.com | Andrew Jefford
In a piece first published in WFW55 in 2017, Andrew Jefford, inspired by a single bottle of Wiston Estate 2010 Blanc de Blancs, picked out the details of his developing relationship with the wines of his native country. Life, recalled, is detail. No one can understand an entire tide, a complete season.
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