Jon's wine blog

Welcome new discovery of  La Clausade, a new domaine quite near us in, Mauguio, producing wines from little-known grape varieties (see below...

We are in the UK for the second time since Christmas, this time visiting Jeff and Fi in their new home in Uttoxeter. Like the first trip t...

Solutré, near Macon Some of my friends are not really interested in wine and tend to skip these blog posts.  So before you  do that this tim...

Maybe you could say we are too busy drinking wine to write about it - but now and then something pops up that is worth mentioning. This time...

This is just a round-up of the wines we've sampled over the summer so far.  Descriptions of many of them follow. red wines The 'Patr...

  A good friend, not ignorant about wine, still associated Beaumes de Venise mainly with the sweet fortified muscat which we have also enjoy...

  Cadillac   We'd been planning our late November mini break westwards for several weeks.  So at the end of the month we settled into ou...