The Leon Stolarski Blog

Tasting notes, opinions, rants, interests and deep, meaningful thoughts of an (ex)independent wine merchant

Thursday, 9 March 2023

Domaine Ravanès - a tasting of new releases and older vintages

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Hello?! Remember me? I used to write a wine blog..... but, to my great surprise, it has been over 5 and-a-half years since I last posted (an...
Friday, 30 June 2017

A new discovery - Ma Poésie 2016 Vin de France

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As always, June is holiday time for us (in Languedoc - where else?) and I did intend to post a few blog entries whilst we were here. Unfort...
Monday, 12 December 2016

Brexit - have turkeys really voted for Christmas?

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I've rarely, if ever, used this blog as a political platform. After all, it's supposed to be (mostly) about wine. But one of the re...
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Friday, 25 November 2016

2016 and all that (plus a couple of bargain reds)

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What follows was meant to form the basis of a newsletter to my customers, but I thought better of boring them with my thoughts (and occasio...
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Thursday, 7 January 2016

At last – A brand new book about the wines of Languedoc-Roussillon!

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I can hardly believe that it is almost 6 years (April 2010) since I published  this blog post , concerning my good friend Peter Gorley'...
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Monday, 16 November 2015

Domaine de Montesquiou - a fabulous quartet of dry and sweet Jurançon

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My Facebook friends (no doubt some of whom are also readers of this blog) will have seen a post from me a few weeks ago , extolling the vir...
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Wednesday, 7 October 2015

The wines of Domaine Gigou

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A good many years ago, one of the members of Nottingham Wine Circle (a big fan of Bordeaux wines and an even bigger fan of the Loire) prese...
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Wednesday, 13 May 2015

Ahahr (revisited)! More wines from the Ahr Valley

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I know - like buses, you wait for ages for a blog post from me, then two come along at once! Anyway, as promised in my previous post (of lit...
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Isn't technology wonderful?! A pair of new apps that have just made my life a lot easier.

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Yes, I know that it has - once again - been a while. But this time I might be back for good, as I have news of a couple of "apps" ...
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Wednesday, 21 January 2015

Top Cru Beaujolais - Domaines Piron and Lardy

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I have been promising to write-up the notes from this rather excellent tasting, ever since it took place in October 2014. It was the result...
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Friday, 21 November 2014

Heads-up for an excellent new Languedoc blog

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Wot - 2 blog posts in a day?! Well, I thought that whilst I was on such a roll, I would give you a pointer towards an excellent new(ish) bl...
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A wonderful new wine from Chateau La Dournie

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I posted the following note on my Facebook page last evening and someone suggested that "it feels like a blog post". Which I must...
Tuesday, 19 August 2014

What I did with my summer - Plus a brand new book about the wines of Languedoc and Roussillon

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OK, so my stated intention earlier in the year to start posting a little more on here has – at least until now – gone badly awry. I am putt...
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