Published: August 2006 in Wine & Spirit Magazine Type ASDW into Google , and when you've filtered out the pagesof the All Seasons Door & Window Company, you'll find yourself on the site ofthe Association of Small Direct Wine-Merchants - www.asdw.org.uk . The ASDW is an umbrella organisation for around 20 companies who sell wine either through mail order or the internet and in quantities that can loosely be classed as "small" - so no, the Wine Society and Laithwaites are not members. The group recently held its first press and trade tasting with a dozen or so companies showing off their wares. Though variable, the qualitywas generally high, and four companies stood out from the crowd. The first was Nick Dobson Wines, a specialist in wines from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France. Two lovely reds are Bernard Santé's Moulin-à-Vent 2005, a vibrant young red with notes of raspberries, blackcurrants and violets, and Erich Sattler's 2003 Reserve Zweigelt...
Musings on wine and occasional other subjects from The Big Red Wine Company's James Bercovici