A wine notebook, kept slowly
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3,836 wines, 214 posts, 190 events. Still going, slowly.
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Tuesday 1 December at 18:30 · Lo Kyiv
Amigos Blancos, volume four. The idea hasn't changed: white López de Heredia, sometimes a friend or two from elsewhere, and no room for reds.
Most of it is new to this table. Three Gravonias: 2010 and 2013, which we haven't opened before, and the young 2017. Tondonia Blanco Reserva 2014, the latest release, next to the 2009, which took the most hearts at the very first edition. The Gran Reserva 2004 was absurdly young when we opened it in January; almost two years on, it gets a second look. And the Rosado Gran Reserva 2011 closes the evening.
At least seven bottles, Tuesday, 1 December. Though it always gets merrier when my wine bag is involved, so who knows, maybe a few more will land on the table.
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Fleury
BdN d2026 · NV
10 Nov · by Boris
- 024.2
D'Alesio
Tenuta del Professore Trebbiano d'Abruzzo Riserva 2016
10 Nov · by Boris
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Benanti
Etna Bianco Superiore Pietra Marina 2019
10 Nov · by Boris
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Olivier Bonville
Odyssée 319 Avize Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs (d2025-10) · NV
10 Nov · by Boris
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Bodegas Arrocal
Parcela Las Canteras 2024
10 Nov · by Boris
- 064.5
André Beaufort
Ambonnay Millésime Grand Cru 2003
10 Nov · by Boris
- 074.2
Il Mosnel
Franciacorta Satèn 2000
10 Nov · by Boris
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Egly-Ouriet
Ratafia Champenois · NV
8 Nov · by Boris
Pinned · From the journal
Class of 1996
Six bottles from the 1996 harvest, three Champagnes and the two Bolgheri neighbours, plus a Gussago opener and a Selosse liqueur, poured for charity on their thirtieth birthday.
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Vinul Moldovei Vol. 5
8 Nov 2026
Eight bottles of young and small Moldova, one guest from Romania, and a Purcari icewine eleven years on, over shashlik at Kara-Bala.
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Champagne Bag Vol. 7
20 Oct 2026
Six Champagnes brought in from abroad, from producers you cannot buy in Ukraine, with a secret bottle poured blind and an Austrian rosé at the door.
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Mixed Bag Vol. 22
13 Oct 2026
Eight blind bottles at Lo Kyiv - a Crémant de Bourgogne with a prawn on the label, three wines from the Sierra de Gredos, a 2014 Carricante from Sicily, a Douro red spelled backwards, a 2012 Rioja in a Burgundy bottle and an Austrian Sekt - plus an Arpepe Nebbiolo and a Norwegian ice cider as bonuses.
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Touching a Legend
11 Aug 2026
Seven vintages of La Stoppa Ageno, from the current 2022 back to a 2005 from the Emilia IGT era, with a Nicola Gatta Molener to open.
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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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