Moric – new releases and mature beauties

Tuesday 17 September 2024
Roland Velich and Dagmar

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...