A wine notebook, kept slowly
I'm Boris. This is my wine notebook - notes, events, and the people I drink with.
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3,568 wines, 208 posts, 184 events. Still going, slowly.
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Tuesday 21 July at 18:30 · Wix Kyiv Office
One evening, one cause: every hryvnia from every ticket goes to charity, the full amount, with nothing skimmed off the top. To mark the occasion Andrii is opening his cellar and bringing bottles he has kept in reserve for years, poured alongside a few treasures from ours. A generous lineup for a generous night. And who knows? Maybe a few other treasures find their way to the table too.
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Marco De Bartoli
Terzavia Cuvée VS (d2024) · NV
17 Jul · by Boris
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Chivite
Coleccion 125 Rosado 2007
17 Jul · by Boris
- 034.3
Piero Busso
Albesani Vigna Borgese 2021
17 Jul · by Boris
- 044.2good deal
Cascina delle Rose
Barbera d'Alba Donna Elena 2020
17 Jul · by Boris
- 054.3
Lorenzo Accomasso
Pochi Filagn 2021
17 Jul · by Boris
- 064.2
Elio Sandri
Barolo Perno 2017
17 Jul · by Boris
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Matassa
Rollaball 2020
14 Jul · @Lo Kyiv · by Boris
- 084.0good deal
Davoche
Clafoutis Syrah 2021
14 Jul · @Lo Kyiv · by Boris
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QPR, rebuilt: finding wines worth buying
Why the old quality-price ratio lied about both the cheapest and the greatest bottles, what wine economists do instead, and how the new QPR works.
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Serve It Cold
14 Jul 2026
Everything out of the ice bucket, poured blind: chilled reds, a Trousseau twin test under two passports, an oxidative Rioja white on ice, and Bouzy brut nature to finish.
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Atlantic Whites: Galicia to the Minho
7 Jul 2026
Eight whites poured blind along the Atlantic fringe of Iberia - granite Galicia to the Minho and the Douro, with a volcanic detour and a slow-motion Rioja ringer.
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Norm Wines Vol. 5
16 Jun 2026
Buyable bottles that overdeliver, running the full colour wheel from grower Champagne to sweet Madeira.
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Bérêche i p'ješ: Issue #2
10 Jun 2026
Nine bottles, eight of them from the Bérêche family universe - three labels out of one cellar in Ludes, three still Coteaux Champenois along the way, Aÿ Grand Cru 2016 as the summit - plus a bonus from young Taissy grower Jules Brochet.
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Mythopia, recalibrated
22 May 2026
Ten Mythopia bottles back to back at Lo, organised by Serhii Braha and Sabotage Wines - the inconsistency on display, the recent wins doing the convincing. Plus a bonus Champagne to close.
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Mix Italiano - hotdogs and a tour of the boot
19 May 2026
Italian-only night at Lo, opened with col fondo, hotdogs from the mangal on the street, and a lineup that crossed from Valdobbiadene to Etna with a thirteen-year Montebuono pair in the middle.
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