En casi todas las catas de vino que organiza Ivan, ocurre algo interesante. Algunos invitados cogen un bolígrafo en cuanto se sientan, listos para anotar cada aroma y cada matiz de sabor. ¿Otros? Echan un vistazo a la hoja, sonríen con educación y se lanzan directamente a conversar y a disfrutar del vino. Al final del evento, la mitad de las hojas están llenas de notas, mientras que la otra mitad quedan abandonadas bajo un montón de copas de vino.

And here we are again, my annual exercise of looking back and distilling a year of wine drinking into my favourite Top 10. Every year we look back on all of the wines we tried/drank and attempt to put them in some order of preference. However, this year felt harder for some reason. Not because the wines were less memorable, but because the year itself unfolded differently. The first few months were relatively quiet on a personal drinking level, largely due to the nature o