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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3,743 wines, 212 posts, 188 events. Still going, slowly.
New here? Read the guide →Champagne Bag Vol. 7
Tuesday 20 October at 18:30 · Lo Kyiv
The bag comes out again, volume seven. A brown-bag night for grower Champagne: bottles poured from the bag so the wine speaks before the label does. Low dosage, high tension, small estates only, and a room that takes its bubbles seriously.
- 014.0good deal
Régis & Sylvain
Gambero 2023
13 Oct · @Lo Kyiv · by Boris
- 024.3good deal
Gulfi
Carjcanti 2014
13 Oct · @Lo Kyiv · by Boris
- 034.1good deal
4 Monos Viticultores
GR-10 2024
13 Oct · @Lo Kyiv · by Boris
- 044.2good deal
Comando G
La Bruja 2024
13 Oct · @Lo Kyiv · by Boris
- 054.2
Niepoort & Telmo Rodríguez
Omlet 2011
13 Oct · @Lo Kyiv · by Boris
- 064.0good deal
Weingut Bründlmayer
Extra Brut Reserve L16330/09/20 (d2025-03) · NV
13 Oct · @Lo Kyiv · by Boris
- 074.3good deal
R. López de Heredia
Viña Bosconia Reserva 2012
13 Oct · @Lo Kyiv · by Boris
- 084.0
Arpepe
Rosso di Valtellina Nebbiolo 2022
13 Oct · @Lo Kyiv · 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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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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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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