Chef Charlie Palmer is closing his Aureole restaurant in Las Vegas, known for its Wine Spectator Grand Award-winning wine list and its four-story wine tower, where “wine angels” sailed on wires to retrieve bottles. A centerpiece of the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino since it opened in 1999, Aureole has been a training ground for many young chefs and sommeliers. …

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The Great Lakes. In VinePair, Mickey Lyons explores the growing wine scene across the Great Lakes region — from Michigan to Ohio to New York. “The five Great Lakes are lined with fertile soil and hold more than 20 percent of the world’s fresh water. And, as climate change brings fires and droughts that devastate wine regions in California and …

Château Brillette The acquisition includes a 35ha plot of fine gravel soils, predominantly planted with Cabernet Sauvignon, and the Merlaut family, which owns Château Chasse-Spleen, said the purchase will help the team create wines of greater depth and structure. Château Chasse-Spleen was chosen as one of six Crus Exceptionnels in the Cru Bourgeois classification of 1932, and it is widely …

Noble Rot Soho, winner of the Best By-the-Glass List award. For the UK’s third edition of the Star Wine List of the Year Awards, held in partnership with trade title The Buyer, a jury of top sommeliers was brought together to judge over 100 wine lists from restaurants and bars across the UK. Spanning 12 categories, the winning establishments [see …

New Zealand, 14 February 2023. Last week, Cyclone Gabrielle ripped through the North Island and left a trail of destruction in its wake. Eleven people were killed, dozens more were injured and around 10,000 were left homeless, according to early estimates. Prime minister Chris Hipkins called it the country’s ‘biggest natural disaster’ of the 21st century, and damages are estimated …

Seville. Ri?as Baixas My first visit to Galicia a decade ago was on a wine trip. Or so I had been led to believe. The invitation had come from the Ri?as Baixas regional consejo, after all, and, as I leafed through the schedule over breakfast on my first day, I found a list of producers’ addresses that, put together, charted …

The cooperative movement in France started in 1901 with the Languedoc cooperative of Ensérune (now part of Les Vignobles Foncalieu), supporting rural communities in a post-phylloxera and industrial revolution world, and continuing to keep viticulture alive during world wars and economic recessions. Cooperatives are diverse in size, type of organisation and philosophy, and appear in every winemaking region in France, …

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