Meet The Family, Primeurs Style
THE ‘PRIMEURS’ EVENT IS A MUCH-ANTICIPATED MOMENT IN THE WINEMAKER’S CALENDAR.
At the end of spring, wine merchants and collectors gather to taste the vintages harvested the year before, for the first time.
Origin Stories
A short route through some etymological roots
We’ve been digging for root words – words that give origin to others. Root covers a lot of ground, offering meanings whose tendrils we’ve attempted to follow.
Hard Graft
A THRILLERISH TALE OF CLONES, SCIONS, CHIMERAS AND OMEGA CUTS.
Vine grafting is the close-to-magical technique of fusing a new vine cutting to an old vinestock to create a genetically-compound new plant.