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  • Four wines and a wormhole

    Hannah Fuellenkemper   

    Hannah thinks she’s opened some kind of portal by calling up memories of 2020’s four most momentous wines. And we’re not going argue!

  • My harvest starts in X days & I’m getting cold feet

    Hannah Fuellenkemper   

    Hannah starts to get cold feet as she starts her sixth year of harvesting – this time with a proper cellar and all!

  • Rage against the machine

    Hannah Fuellenkemper   

    Hannah outlines why vineyard work can be incredibly divorced from the end product, and has some suggestions on how it can be rehumanised

  • Picture (c) Hannah Fuellenkemper

    Hand harvesting isn’t the half of it

    Hannah Fuellenkemper   

    I hate the hoorah implied by ‘hand-picked’. I hate it more round about the fourth-plus week of repetitive vineyard work. At the worst of times in the vines, ‘bored’ is an understatement. But ‘hand-picked’ is a misrepresentation. Not everything is blockbuster work but everything is done by hand — and once you’ve completed one task, in a couple weeks you’ll be back at the same vine again.

  • Natural wine is no longer enough

    Hannah Fuellenkemper   

    Hannah argues that the new natural wine charter is a missed opportunity to make a radical statement – about how natural wine can push forward to the next frontier

  • Society is dead, long live conviviality

    Hannah Fuellenkemper   

    Tonight I will be late for my first drinking-with-someone-on-FaceTime-date which I know because even though it seems like everything is different, some things will never change. Other things are not so the same.

  • No one makes wine alone

    Hannah Fuellenkemper   

    This is what I learned from harvest 2019: Don’t judge a man by what he’s got tattooed on his face (in this case, A.C.A.B) Supermarket salad crates also work for harvesting grapes and are cheaper than caisse I don’t want a pneumatic press You don’t make wine alone. I learned technical things too, as well

  • Skull lying in the grass

    The earth is burning, this is not a drill

    Hannah Fuellenkemper   

    Today we ran out of water which is just as well because it provided the first line to a piece I’ve been putting off since since the mercury overdosed on too many degrees. Call it procrastination, meltdown or depression, but the question remains the same: How to start when the conclusion is the end? Before

  • Fear and pruning Part 2 – Don’t strangle the vines

    Hannah Fuellenkemper   

    Hannah explains why just one wrong move with the secateurs could herald disaster for the vineyard

  • Le Saint Eutrope (my perfect little bistro)

    Hannah Fuellenkemper   

    Some kids get the itch to become astronauts but when I’m grown up I want to be Harry Lester. Once I am I’ll open my perfect little bistro. A tear-the-paper-off-the-table, stoneware carafe and colourful brocante-deco affair, doesn’t matter where so long as it’s hard to get to, oh – and in France. I will dress

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