An evening of six wines from Chateau Lafite Rothschild, each wine matched to a separate dinner course.   The Palm Restaurant Tysons Corner, Virginia, USA. 24 February 2015.   ? More images: here.   **************** ? 1st course: Seared jumbo sea scallops, served over English-pea and truffle puree, with maque choux. ? Served with: Lafite Reserve Speciale Blanc 2013.   …

Zinfandel (Flickr: naotakem) In Wine-Searcher, Kathleen Willcox looks at how winemakers are making affordable, versatile Zinfandel wines to tempt young people into drinking wine. “Zinfandel’s newfound light side comes courtesy of vintners, who have been transforming their production practices. It’s not all new oak anymore…Moderately priced, capable of presenting as lush or restrained, sustainably farmed, poised to weather climate change …

Part of the wine cellar at Atrio. Spanish judges handed out prison terms to Priscila Guevara, a former Mexican beauty contestant, and her Dutch-Romanian partner, Constantín Dumitru, after the pair went on trial in Madrid over the restaurant wine heist. Guevara, 28, and Dumitru, 49, were sentenced to four years and four-and-a-half years in prison respectively, reported Spanish newspaper El …

King Charles III and Camilla, Queen Consort during the State Banquet at Buckingham Palace on 22 November 2022. President Emmanuel Macron will host King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla when they arrive in Paris on Sunday 26 March. It will be King Charles’ first overseas tour since succeeding Queen Elizabeth II last year, and the royal couple will be welcomed …

Greg Sherwood MW, Beverley Blanning MW and Roger Jones tasted 223 wines with 28 Outstanding and 108 Highly recommended. South African Chenin Blanc: panel tasting scores 223 wines tasted Exceptional 0 Outstanding 28 Highly recommended 108 Recommended 82 Commended 5 Fair 0 Poor 0 Entry criteria: producers and UK agents were invited to submit their latest-release Chenin Blanc still whites, …

Grapes growing on a vine in Kakheti, Georgia. I’d visited Kakheti, Kartli and Imereti before – Georgia’s dominant central wine-producing zones; but never the wild exterior. From the ice-crisped cemetery grass of the 11th-century church of St George, dominating the mountaintop village of Mravaldzali, we looked north across the mountains of the Greater Caucasus, Europe’s highest. The silence, and the …

We recently paid a visit to Klein Constantia, part of Simon van der Stel’s Constantia estate and vineyard established in 1685. Over the ensuing 338 years the estate has seen many changes, including the 20th century creation of a state cooperative (KWV) that controlled almost all wine production and sales.  Klein Constantia resumed bottling under its own label in 1986 …

Spry and briary, this Zinfandel is fun to drink, with lively black cherry, licorice and dried sage flavors, which take on richness and cracked pepper accents toward zesty tannins. Drink now through 2031. 4,000 cases made. Source : 6b0b2feff9a6ecdf79e161ecc1ee1591

Delivers a terrific, lip-smacking mix of crunchy sea salt, toasted herbs and tropical flavors that show terrific purity to the Key lime, dried pineapple and passionfruit flavors at the core. Reveals intense acidity on the long finish. Drink now. 2,222 cases made. Source : 2930d74eb06a706c6349a5d148d82e69

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Hello, and welcome to my weekly roundup of the wine stories that I find of interest on the web. I post them to my magazine on Flipboard, but for those of you who aren’t Flipboard-inclined, here’s everything I’ve strained out of the wine-related muck for the week. Big news: new genetic evidence shows that the grapevine was domesticated in two locations, …