Winefriend by David Way
Writing about the wines of Piemonte, Italy and France
Blog Posts
- Diary 51: publication day!
- Diary 65: Mascarello Monprivato vertical
- Diary 64: Revisiting Alto Piemonte
- Diary 63: Cadgal, revived Moscato specialist
- Schiava becomes Vernatsch
- Diary 62: Nebbiolo Prima Academy 2024
- Diary 61: Caluso revisited
- Diary 60: a second Borgogno Barolo Riserva vertical
- Diary 59: Ceretto Barolo and Barbaresco vertical
- Diary 58: Sordo Barolo vertical
- Diary 57: G.D. Vajra Barolo vertical
- Diary 56: Produttori del Barbaresco vertical
- Diary 55: Gaja Barbaresco vertical
- Fontanafredda’s Vigna La Rosa vintages
- Diary 53: vintage reflections
- Diary 52: Mapping Barbera
- Diary 52: a celebration tasting
- Piera 1899
- Diary 50: an important milestone
- Diary 49: Piemonte in Verona
- Diary 48: two women wine producers in Boca, Alto Piemonte
- Diary 47: the wines of newcomer Emanuele Gambino
- Diary 46: Update, January 2023
- Collio DOC: quality wines, styles, challenges
- Cantina Kurtatsch’s Bordeaux variety wines
- Diary 45: Guido Rivella’s Barbaresco Montestefano, a vertical tasting
- Colli Euganei: Bordeaux blends on volcanic soils
- Three days in the lovely Prosecco DOCG hills
- Diary 44: Alba DOC really does exist…and it’s not what you think it is!
- Diary 43: a final long visit to Langhe and Monferrato?
- Diary 42: rare varieties around Barolo
- Diary 41: Piemonte–wine regions for the adventurous
- Diary 40: the small DOCs in Piemonte’s Western Alps
- Diary 38: Return to Vinitaly
- Diary 37: Tasting Albarossa wine: more than a blockbuster?
- Diary 36: Wine co-operatives: socialist ethos or dynastic leadership?
- Diary 35: Beginning 2022, an update
- Diary 34: ‘Barolo, tar and roses’, 30 years on
- The Judgement of Overton, 2021
- Diary 33: a month in Piemonte
- Diary 32: Piemonte vineyard landscapes
- Diary 31: Uvalino on the vine
- Diary 30: first day in Asti DOCG
- Photoblog of Romagna, August 2021
- Celebrating Romagna’s Albana grape variety
- Romagna Sangiovese and friends
- Welcome to Romagna
- Diary 29: Nebbiolo outside Barolo, two fine examples
- Diary 28: another fascinating wine co-operative in Piemonte
- Pinot Grigio … on Lake Garda
- Diary 26: tank method sparkling wine: much more than Asti
- Diary 25: Wine map of southern Piemonte
- Diary 24: Piemonte’s sparkling wine tradition
- ‘Old Piemonte’ – Pinot Noir in Oltrepò Pavese
- Diary 22: half-term report
- Diary 21: on the move at Mauro Veglio’s Barolo
- Diary 20: Masnaghetti wine maps, a complete toolkit
- Diary 19: Supercharged Grignolino
- Diary 18 – additional Brexit bureaucracy
- Barbaresco co-operative, Pertinace, with a sense of place
- Diary 16 – Freisa, Nebbiolo’s rustic relative
- Braida and Chiarlo – the two titans of Monferrato Barbera
- Monferrato’s famous five grape varieties
- Welcome to David Way’s new Winefriend website
- Diary: 13 – A month and more with Roero
- Diary: 12 – slow, slow, Sottimano, slow,
- Diary: 11 – Mapping Piemonte
- Diary: 10 – Plan B?
- Farewell to The Harrow, Little Bedwyn
- Pics – part 2
- What no pics?
- Diary: 9 – visits in BBR
- Diary: 8 – taking the temperature
- Diary of a wine writer 7: greetings
- Diary of a wine writer 6: publicist?
- Diary of a wine writer 5: a vision of the future
- Diary of a wine writer 4: what’s next?
- Diary of a wine writer 3: cue celebration!
- Diary of a wine writer 2: choices
- Diary of a wine writer 1: the germ of an idea
- Castello di Radda
- My favourite wines
- Beaujolais gets stylish
- Syrah spectacular
- ‘Minerality’: in brief
- How does a vine gets the nutrients it needs?
- Mineral muddle
- Like, admire or love?
- Ruffino’s top wines
- Red Burgundy outperforms expectation …
- Italian bubbles
- Sauvignon, Pinot, Chardonnay and gastronomy in the Western Cape
- Best wines of the S Africa trip
- Photo tour around Table Mountain
- A week of wine in the Western Cape
- Western cape photos
- A Chenin Blanc welcome
- Nebbiolo day!
- Andover Wine Friends 10th anniversary tasting and dinner
- Sancerre stars
- Cork Dork – fast track to sommelier
- Sangiovese in 5 Tuscan regions and … Corsica
- Five courses, four groups of wines at La Trompette
- Josmeyer – star of Alsace
- Neuroenology
- Holidaying in Croatia – the Stina winery
- Spectacular Cortina d’Ampezzo
- Birthday bash
- Taking the temperature of Italian wine
- Viticcio in Chianti Classico and Maremma
- Barolo Vigna La Rosa
- Champagne Castelnau relaunch
- Class at the Harrow, Little Bedwyn
- 2015 Burgundy excitement!
- Bring a special bottle, 2016
- State of the Amarone nation
- Top Austrian white wines
- Taste like a wine critic?
- Bracali – cuisine and wine
- Nebbiolo vintages
- Things that can go wrong … in the MW tasting exam
- Final week before MW exams
- Homage to the Harrow
- Grand Syrah tasting
- Napa stands on its head
- Ageing Grechetto
- Drinking Quintarelli’s legendary Valpolicella in Verona
- Cabernet escapes its prison
- Chardonnay week
- Pewsey Vale: Riesling heaven
- Postcard from Felton Road
- Postcard from Pegasus Bay
- Postcard from Neudorf
- Winemaking at Villa Maria
- Postcard from Lawson’s Dry Hills
- Kopke’s liquid gold
- Postcard from Fromm
- Postcard from Nautilus
- Sauvignon Celebration
- Sauvignon 2016 insights
- Postcard from Ata Rangi
- Postcard from Palliser
- Postcard from Craggy Range
- Postcard from Millton
- Postcard from Villa Maria
- Postcard from Kumeu River
- Arriving in New Zealand …
- Henschke – the pinnacle
- Rocking Rockford (2)
- Eden Valley gum trees
- Rocking Rockford (1)
- Seppeltsfield’s Centurions
- It’s definitely hot here
- Taylors, Clare Valley
- Clare valley history: Sevenhill
- Grosset’s Rieslings
- Cellar door Clare
- Postcard from Adelaide
- Perfect beach
- Transit in HK
- Postcards from S Australia
- Chianti Classico diversity
- Cutting edge S America
- Madeira magic
- The antidote to revision: Corton 2005
- Quinta do Noval – Douro magic
- Celebrating 1982 Claret
- Quality hierarchy: Claret 2004 revisited
- Diversity in South West France
- Nyetimber v Roederer
- Unglamourous harvest
- Merlot fest
- Modern Cahors
- Big birthday dinner
- How does white Burgundy age?
- Ch. Cantin, St-Emilion
- Australia in two styles
- Super cool Australia
- Two titans
- Sangiovese in the UK
- Apothic – friend or foe?
- Majestic Leeuwin
- How natural is natural?
- Longparish’s Italian tour
- Spain round 2
- Youthful 68 year old
- Valbuena 1985 twice: what’s the chance?
- Corton in red
- Albert Bichot’s white Burgundy
- The Italian road less travelled
- Rising to the quality challenge
- Beyond the limits
- Exploring northern Portugal
- Blind tasting: some method in the madness
- Rioja, modernist or old school?
- Maremman Christmas – La Parrina goes head to head with Massa Vecchia
- Christmas begins here
- Star Saperavi
- Essi’s sparkling world tour
- Rhone again
- Lighting tour of Northern Spain
- Apple v Microsoft – the last frontier?
- Bankers to the impossible
- Autumn in Rioja
- Pouring first growths
- Chameleon Chardonnay
- South America disappoints
- Discovering Croatia
- The old and the new Germany
- Blind tasting – a laugh a minute?
- More than a hint of greatness?
- Champagne still sparkles
- Cool coastal Californians
- Dipping a toe into Baden
- Riesling – 1-year, 30-year or 60-year old?
- Stony Brook–artisan quality in Franschhoek
- BBC 1 twice
- Blind tasting masochism?
- Unknown knowns
- Gravner’s orange wine at L’Ortolan
- Blind tasting bulls-eye?
- Authentic or natural?
- Delfi’s playground
- Signature grapes of South America
- Chardonnay and Chinon … twice?
- 2003 ten years on
- Wines for summer
- Tipple of choice on the 7:35?
- Spanish journey
- White Rhône
- Rare Italian varieties
- The old Spain
- Riesling review
- Getting a grip on the Rhône
- Iberian Icons
- Artisan wines of Piemonte
- Finding the holy grail? Benjamin Lewin’s In search of Pinot Noir
- No name, no idea?
- Eyrie Vineyards: more than Pinot Noir
- A Barbera weekend
- Fish and chips … and a glass of Chablis?
- Domaine de Chevalier–shining knight?
- Growers’ champagne in the UK
- Rieslingreise
- Wines of a Mediterranean island: Corsica
- Inferences true and false
- Pinot Noir – home and away
- Champagne scholarship 2013
- Quality in South Africa
- Acid and balance
- Happy 5th birthday!
- Rhône varieties – home and away
- Triumphant Portugal
- California road trip
- Classic, regional, new world?
- Bordeaux grapes in search of sunshine
- Gussalli Beretta: from guns to wine
- Taste, suffer, triumph
- Fortified wines: two by two
- October excellence
- Tim Atkin: on Toscana’s Sangiovese
- Staete Landt–European style in NZ?
- Savoury Sangiovese
- Ben’s modern classics
- Critics’ Choice Spain
- Rheingau Riesling rapture
- At last some wines we recognise!
- What no Grüner?
- Entry level grand cru?
- Party in pink
- Mission impossible
- Two Chianti Rufina estates
- Beaujolais: prejudice confounded
- Light and aromatic
- Southern Rhône class
- Underwhelmed in Bordeaux
- Antinori: kick-starting the Italian quality revolution
- Soft and strong (updated)
- Things can only get better
- Blind tasting improbability index
- Two old sweeties
- Small is beautiful
- A study in new world ageing
- Sparkling wine in the dark
- Highs and lows in Burgundy
- Best of New Zealand
- Success in Alsace
- Wines of the extremes
- Art of fine living at the Harrow
- Pale, red and elegant
- 1970s Claret – old friends reunited
- The four colours of 2003 Dom Perignon
- Subtle variation
- Puglia – the quality revolution
- Burgundy 2010 – a first view
- En primeur – spotting potential
- Birthday bubbles, streams of Syrah
- Pinot Gris in the limelight
- Pictorial BBC1
- Burgundy v Piedmont
- Champagne Feuillatte: big numbers, quality bottles
- Mission impossible
- Blind tasting oddities?
- Buried treasure in the South West
- Bordeaux blind
- Ageing gracefully in Roussillon
- Friuli in overview
- North Italian tour
- Hampshire harvest watch – picking grapes
- Elegant Greece
- Red BBC1
- In the pink
- Plotting in Saint Mont
- Real Italy
- ABC
- Sighted Sherry
- Sancerre meets Roussillon
- Ch. Palmer and Monprivato
- Truly, madly, Friuli
- Champagne challenge
- Glass obsession
- Twins and triplets
- Happy and bewildered
- BBC 2: Meursault and the generation game
- Supermarket v. Independent
- Vio-bec tasting
- Revisiting Chianti
- High Torq wines
- No palate?
- Mysterious Bugarach
- BBC2 Australia
- Around the world in eight Cabernets
- Random wines
- Tuesday is Champagne day
- Arriving in Puglia
- The very last bottle …
- The guessing game
- French dinner at Longparish
- Sorì Tildìn among the Italian icons
- Five top Italians … and a bonus
- The grapes of Alsace
- Frescobaldi’s 2006 Brunello
- Sheer Champagne indulgence
- Unsung Pinot Meunier
- White Sauvignon Blanc and other tales of the unexpected
- Marcillac – rustic southwest magic
- Vinous variety
- Off the beaten track Spain
- A Seabright dawn
- Into the unknown
- Real Rioja
- Burgundy highways and byways
- Sweet dreams
- Burgundy 2009 – Meursault masters
- 24-bottle dinner
- 2004 Red Burgundy again
- and a third Claret
- Tale of two clarets
- Puglia comes to Hampshire
- Grape Expectations: 10 wines to try this Christmas
- Organic Sud de France
- Best value bottle of the year?
- Chile highlights
- La Parrina – last stop in Tuscany
- More is less?
- Top glasses
- Arriving at Sancerre
- Whistle stop tour of the Loire
- Hero or Villaine?
- Experience shows
- Italian half-marathon
- In praise of Nebbiolo
- Rediscovering German wines
- To cork or not to cork …
- Art of the (Riedel) glass
- Cool climate Chile
- A small loss
- From Napa to Massa
- Tasting in the dark 2
- Tasting in the dark
- A serious rosé
- South African stars
- Chianti classico finds its soul
- Piemonte
- The good and the great
- Fabulous Falanghina
- Age does not wither?
- Piemonte 2-3 Toscana: A weekend in Italy part 2
- A weekend in Italy: Capezzana
- Christian Moreau at Caviste
- Giacosa Fratelli – perfume and austerity
- Clos du Marquis dinner
- Multi-faceted Vajra
- Ca’ del Baio – rapporto qualità prezzo buonissimo!
- Bruno Rocca – above all the land
- Vinitaly 4: high altitude Sangiovese
- Vinitaly 3: a towering Vernaccia
- Vinitaly 2: mainly bubbles
- Vinitaly 1: the Italian wine city
- Fiorenzo Nada – small is beautiful
- Albino Rocca – where the quality shows
- Hilberg-Pasquero: ‘bio-ergo-dinamica’
- Monchiero Carbone – when two families are better than one
- Spring sunshine at Malvirà
- Renato Ratti – history with a view
- Elvio Cogno – a family winery in good health
- Elio Grasso: two styles of Barolo
- Landing in Piemonte
- Dennis Canute presents Rusden wines
- Bocca di lupo – a friendly wolf
- Something to celebrate: 1990
- Recent vintages of Langoa Barton
- Campania in the glass in England
- How to do wine in restaurants
- The world’s Chardonnay
- Wine, people, place: Nicholas Belfrage’s and Jon Wyand’s Tuscany
- Burgundy at the home of cricket
- Serraiola – picture essay
- Two Tuscan models
- Old style Chianti
- Rediscovering Port
- How old is old?
- Zind-Humbrecht at Coe Vintners
- Homage to Gaja
- Castello Banfi – a modern Brunello
- Roussillon – sunshine and big fruit
- Two types of wine talk and two Super Tuscans
- Talking about wine
- Chablis – all flints and fossils
- Campania 9 – Filadoro, the new comer
- Campania 8 – Villa Diamante
- Campania 7 – di Prisco
- Campania 6 – Contrade di Taurasi
- Campania 5 – Molletieri
- Campania 4 – Mastroberardino
- Campania 3 – de Conciliis
- Campania 2 – Furore and Montevetrano
- Campania 1
- Campania – introduction
- Bordeaux Masterclass (2)
- Bordeaux Masterclass (1)
- Weekend bottles
- Particularly Alsace
- Red Burgundy’s contribution to European unity
- Party wines
- Searching for older Alsace bottles
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