The Sauce
Charlie Brown, Sam Dixon BrownDeep dives into food and wine culture. By Charlie & Sam Brown, ex-wine store and bar owners, writers & wine educators w/ 13+ years in the wine & food industry
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 316 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 12 days ago |
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What makes a good wine producer (and how do you find them)?
A genuinely useful question from our fledgling TikTok community
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that Sam and I have joined TikTok as one way to build a bigger audience for our new wine communication endeavour. We’ve already had one video...
Ode to an air fryer
The things that get you excited in your forties…
I resisted an air fryer for a long, long time. Didn’t think I needed one. “An oven has worked perfectly well for me for decades,” I would grumble.
Truth be told, I was being a bit snobby. A...
Who says you can't drink Barolo young?
Another dispatch from Sam
Is there a more glorious smell than a young Barolo with all its bright red fruits and flowers? And a more enjoyable contrast when you drink it and this seemingly delicate wine explodes with power in your mouth?
6 Underrated Wine Regions Worth Your Attention (and Money)
Another dispatch today from Sam, on underrated regions of the wine world (some of them may surprise you)!
Another dispatch today from Sam, on underrated regions of the wine world (some of them may surprise you)!
Dispatches from the first two weeks in a Welsh cottage
The view from the path above our village
The sun rises early in North Wales. The first slivers of daylight appear around 3 am. By 6 am, it’s already bright and warm, living under a heat dome, as we have been for the last two weeks.
The li...
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Food, drink and culture writer | 13+ years in wine & hospitality | Founder & previous owner of what was once awarded Britain's "best independent wine retailer" | Now living a rural life in North Wales
13+ years in wine including co-founder of Vino Vero, and winemaking intern at Domaine Chapel (Beaujolais, France) and Dominio do Açor (Dão, Portugal)
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