Hannah Fuellenkemper reflects on why she neither understands nor needs the technical language of wine
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What winemakers do in winter
The Ardèche isn’t just about saving dish water for the garden and sleeping out the heat. There’s also the time of year you butcher the pigs that keep the vendangers fed during harvest. Namely January. Casse-croûte was at 10, the breaking and dipping of bread into last year’s bacon, boudin and dark-ochre eggs still crackling
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Too much hoo-ha over glou-glou
I’m beginning to think that for something synonymous with natural wine, the concept of glouglou is actually a little incongruous.
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Best served with yachts and caviar – Cristal 2007
Hannah wins a bottle of Roederer Cristal 2007. She and her friends put together a unique tasting note for the iconic wine.
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Cellar hygiene über alles
The latest instalment of Hannah’s adventures in the Ardeche finds her developing a strange relationship with a pneumatic press. And realising that the hardest work at harvest was not in the vineyard, after all.
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Auberge de Chassignolles, my Hotel California in the Auvergne
Hannah’s further adventures off the beaten-track in South-Eastern France, as she’s abandoned in a hot, sticky Ardeche but reminisces about the perfect lunch
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How I ended up living in Andrea Calek’s barn by mistake
Hannah continues her adventures in France, trading in a winemaking apprenticeship in Banyuls for Andrea Calek’s estate in the Ardèche.
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Hashtag unicorn wines
Hannah rails against the dislikeable trend of bragging about #unicorn wines on social media
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Disco lights and grower champs: Amsterdam’s natural wine bars
Hannah bids a not quite tearful goodbye to Amsterdam, with a round up of its burgeoning natural wine bar scene.
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How natural wine killed the tasting note
Has natural wine killed the tasting note? An army of internet warriors wants us to believe it is so!