DECEMBER was a bumper month on Purple Pages, with over 60 articles published right through Christmas. Here are some of the morsels you might have missed:
- Jancis's top 100 sparklings, whites, reds and strong and/or sweet of 2012 (free)
- Tasting notes for many delicious wines, including the following treats:
- a rare vertical of Champagne Salon
- Pinot Noir from Martinborough, and new releases from other regions of New Zealand
- Thirty-six of the best South African wines, as tasted by Richard on his recent visit to Cape Town
- plus hundreds more notes for wines sold in the UK by these retailers – many of which are available internationally, too:
- Paul O'Doherty's annual round-up of the year's wine-related books (now free)
- Luis on Rioja today (and see also Jancis' views from 2002, linked below)
- Alder's American wines of the year
- Alex on how not to be a snob
- Richard's review of a spooky gastropub in the Cotswolds (free)
- Why shipping temperatures matter (free)
- Nick on a bright future for restaurants and restaurant-goers in 2013 (free)
- Tanya Garnham's vintage in Bierzo chez Descendientes de J Palacios (free)
- One of Brunello's foremost estates sabotaged (free)
- Burgundy 2011s – a full report with well over 1,000 tasting notes taken in both London and Burgundy
- Brunello di Montalcino 2008 – a full tasting report
- Chianti – a possible fiasco?
- Stories from the caves and backstreets of the Côte d'Or
- Are the 2009 top bordeaux worth the money?
- Jancis trying to determine 'What is rioja?'
- A titbit about a polyphenolically enhanced Chardonnay
- Nick on the Pio Tosini, pioneer of prosciutto
- The thorny issue of adding water to wine
- Eight wines from the southern hemisphere at a tasting in Colchester, Essex
- A beginner's guide to wine in Glasgow, Scotland
- A Pinot Noir party in Wellington, New Zealand
- Wine and charcuterie in Edinburgh, Scotland
- and Burgundy 2011 previews in London from Genesis and The Burgundy Portfolio