An AI free zone July 11, 2025Action shot. Writing tasting notes for the website is a hands-on business at Iron & Rose, not cut-and-paste from the producer website or AI generated blah. There is a time... Read On
Quinta da Raza - hot weather wines July 10, 2025It’s heating up 🌞 so get chilling (with a brilliant Vinho Verde Branco and a new red, perfect served cool). Diogo and his wife Mafalda farm 40 hectares of vineyards... Read On
If it grows together, it goes together. July 9, 2025Food and wine matching: a science, an art, or just a bit of fun? There is a truism in food and wine matching that what grows together, goes together. That... Read On
Adventures in Drinking Naturally - an intro to our world of wine June 20, 2025If you're curious about natural wine but don't know where to start, or are looking for wines to convert sceptical friends or family, this mixed six is perfect for you.... Read On
Orange wine. It’s just a fad. Not if you’re from Náoussa it’s not. March 22, 2025We met one of the Artisan Vignerons de Naoussa team recently, a winery in the mountains of northern Greece, and tasted their amazing orange (or aka a skin macerated white)... Read On
Scoring wine is the anti-vibe! March 19, 2025We’ll stick with smiley faces & stars on our tasting notes. This pages is from my booklet at a recent tasting of amazing northern Italian wines where I met lots of... Read On
