Stories

2020-05-27
Written by:
Anna Kruszczyńska
Drink Pink - Rosé wines worth tasting, part 1
DRINK PINK - rosé wines match perfectly the spring atmosphere. Check our today's selection: Rosé Native Grace made at Henners winery (East Sussex, UK) is a blend of  Pinot Meunier and Pinot Noir. The notes  of rstrawberries, rasberries and wild cherry. Importer: Winemates.  Rosé Campuget from Campuget winery (Rhône Valley, France) is a blend of  Syrah and Vermentino; aromas of pink graphefruit, wild strawberries and citruses. Importer: DeliWina. Would you like to know a bit more...
2020-05-24
Written by:
Anna Kruszczyńska
White wines - weekly recommendations - part 1
Spring make us interested more in white and rosé wines, lighter, aromatic, but mineral - matching better with increasing temperature.   Our weekly recommendations: Encruzado  from the wine estate Quinta da Falorca, located in Dão in Portugal. Importerd to Poland by Winemates. Viognier from Domaine Calmel & Joseph, situated in Languedoc region in France. Imported to Poland by Wine rePublic. Chenin Blanc Secateurs made at the family winery A.A.Badenhorstm, located in Swartland in South Africa. Imported to Poland by...
2020-05-18
Written by:
Anna Kruszczyńska
I Vini del Piemonte - interview with Nicola Argamante
On the 1st of June 2020, several wine producers from Piedmont, representing the organization I Vini del Piemonte, will host the first online tasting dedicated to the Polish wine industry. Wine importers, restaurant managers and specialist store owners are invited to join this strictly professional and very limited event. Guests will have the opportunity to taste wines from smaller, artisan wineries and to join B2B online meetings with those producers. I had the pleasure of asking few questions to Nicola Argamante, the president of...
2020-05-15
Written by:
Anna Kruszczyńska
Babylonstoren - beauty and complexity of a wine farm
First impression when you reach Babylonstoren – is this a paradise on earth? Babylonstoren is one of the oldest Dutch Farms located between Franschhoek and Stellenbosch in the Cape Winelands, South Africa. This place is so much more than a wine estate or a farm. It's a concept, a philosophy of healthy life style, a place to spend few hours or even days, depend if you just come there for a lunch, shopping, wine tasting or to stay at their luxury hotel. They also offer a SPA treatment, where you can relax taking in the whole beauty of this place. During weekends and holiday season it’s...
2020-04-23
Written by:
Anna Kruszczyńska
Taste Italy - off the beaten track
Two years ago I've met at the WineExpo a group of Italian sales representatives who decided to create a project called Vini da Terre Estreme. The idea is to promote and sell wines from wineries located in different wine regions: in Italy, Spain, Croatia and other countries. The common factor is that the vineyards are located on difficult high slopes where the harvest has to be made by hand and in extreme conditions. The project concentrate on wine, but equally on people – they want to pay respect to those who decided to pursue their plan and passion, sometimes to follow a...
2019-07-18
Written by:
Małgorzata Machajska
Walking through vineyards of Aÿ (Champagne region, France)
A walk in the vineyards of Aÿ last weekend. The Larmat’s map of the vineyards of la Vallée de la Marne in my hand, the green ‘sea’ of vines stretching to the horizon, the sun peeking out from behind the clouds... I was walking past famous parcels. Clos Saint-Jacques and Chaudes Terres, with their vines planted in the 19th c. that survived unscathed the phylloxera crisis and that produce grapes for Bollinger’s ‘Vielles Vignes Francaises’. Somewhere there is also La Côte aux Enfants producing Bollinger’s amazing red wine. Then there is La Côte Glacière and just above it Meurtet, both...

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