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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3,825 wines, 213 posts, 189 events. Still going, slowly.
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Borja Perez
Artífice Listán Blanco 2022
7 Nov · @WineWine · by Boris
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4 Monos Viticultores
GR-10 2024
7 Nov · @WineWine · by Boris
- 034.1
Borja Perez
Artífice Tinto 2020
7 Nov · @WineWine · by Boris
- 043.9
Papari Valley
Rkatsiteli 3 Qvevri Terraces 2021
7 Nov · @Shoti · by Boris
- 053.9
Bodegas Barbadillo
Blend of Amontillado Medium Dry Sherry · NV
7 Nov · @WineWine · by Boris
- 063.9
Bodegas Barbadillo
Cream Sherry · NV
7 Nov · @WineWine · by Boris
- 074.1
Bodegas Barbadillo
Atamán Original Vermut · NV
7 Nov · @WineWine · by Boris
- 083.8
El Coto de Rioja
Coto de Imaz Reserva 2019
7 Nov · @WineWine · 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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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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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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