Confirmation of Roland Velich’s obsession with Blaufränkisch and that vines know no borders. Above, Velich with his wife, Dagmar (credit: Xenia Trampusch).
Roland Velich has always been a Blaufränkish champion, as Jancis described him back in 2012. In the intervening years, many more voices have joined Velich in celebrating and promoting this dark-skinned variety, for example the producers from Austria, Czechia and Slovakia reviewed in Blaufränkisch without borders. A London tasting organised by Moric’s UK importer Clark Foyster in the atmospheric Wilton’s Music Hall, apparently the oldest surviving grand music hall in the world, showed that he...