Everything I wrote in August
Plenty of material kept coming in August - here are the highlights.
- On JancisRobinson.com, I wrote:
- A short review of some Penfolds wines, including several vintages of Grange (subscription required)
- Tasting notes aplenty, as part of our assemblage series of tasting articles, including (subscription required):
- 29 Australians
- 31 from the 'rest of France'
- 28 from around Italy
- 26 North Americans
- 73 from the Rhône, including some top names from Hermitage
- 39 sweet and/or fortified wines
- 32 South Africans
- 43 wines from central and eastern Europe
- 28 Kiwis
- A vertical tasting report on Wolf Blass Black Label (subscription required)
- Two lovely pink wines of the week (free to read):
- Ch Beauchêne from the Rhône
- Ramón Bilbao's ambitious and delicious new premium Rioja rosé, Lalomba
- My monthly Spittoon column discussed modern art, sort of (free to read)
- My Off Licence News column considered that age-old question, the Next Big Thing
- My Living France column covered the wines of the Auvergne
- Six blogs, which included two of my most popular posts ever: