The Little Plate might be bowing out after 13 years, but they’re definitely going out swinging. A splendid visit for a couple of hardened foodies who have very high expectations.

Their 2024 Speedo Gris takes Pinot Gris by the hand, walks it into a lo-fi fermentation room and tells it to strip down and get dirty. Skin contact? Yes. Funk? Absolutely. A label that looks like a pool party got printed on an old photocopier? Of course.

Embla leans into wood-fired cooking and seasonal ingredients, without feeling like it is jumping into trends. Some real integrity here!

I've always been a fan of what Neil Prentice has set out to do. Is he a little unorthodox? Yes, and that's what I love about him....

Like sand through the hourglass, the days of our lives continue, and our love for skin contact and minimal intervention wines is ever...

Not enough of us are talking Pinot Blanc. It makes creamy white wines, but it also makes crisp, delicious spring drinking wines and a few...

Gee Gee indeed. I have this insatiable desire of late to be scoffing anything orange, biodynamic, skin contact and in the 'natural'...

There is some merit in the comment I am a bit of an old boozer and potentially, missed some good bottles of plonk because of my...

Look - why not? I was in a wine store and saw this bottle, and discovered it was a blend of Gewurztraminer, Nelson Sauvignon, Pinot Gris...

This old Scoffer has long been a fan of Super Nanny Pinot Noir from Central Otago in New Zealand. It's one of those Pinot's I keep going...