[ad_1] 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. What Are Your Career Options After Life as a Sommelier?Everyone needs a plan …

[ad_1] Who’s behind it: Located in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, the Riviera Maya Edition at Kanai is the first Caribbean property within the Edition Hotels portfolio (a partnership between hotelier and entrepreneur Ian Schrager and Marriott International). The “lifestyle hotel” group’s restaurants include three Wine Spectator Restaurant Award winners in New York: the Clocktower at the New York Edition and …

[ad_1] At Bordeaux’s Château Giscours, the Albada Jelgersma family has finally concluded a long-running, complicated dispute with the heirs of the former owner, who had retained considerable shares in the Margaux estate. Going forward, Giscours will be completely in the hands of the Dutch family. Ownership of a Brand, But A Dispute Over Vineyards When Dutch real-estate and food tycoon …

[ad_1] Vineyards in Lirac AOC in the southern Rhône Cru, France Driven by a diverse yet tight-knit community of growers and producers, the small, characterful southern Rho?ne Cru produces some of the region’s most exciting and perhaps underestimated wines. These are products both of a unique terroir – in which biodiversity, a rich geology and the northwestern Mistral wind take …

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[ad_1] Winemaker Alessandro Campatelli Chianti Classico’s Riecine winery typifies many of the changes that have taken place in the region. Current owner Lana Frank purchased this Gaiole estate (see map below) in 2011 and began renovations that included replanting vineyards, replacing steel tanks with concrete, and substituting foudres for barriques. After making wine in Spain’s Utiel-Requena region and Kendall-Jackson in …

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[ad_1] The winners of the 2024 Star Wine List of the Year UK awards. Superstar chef Tomos Parry opened the restaurant last summer after taking over a former Byron Burger site on Beak Street. Parry is renowned for applying Basque cooking techniques to high-quality British produce, with a particular penchant for flame cooking. He opened Brat in a former Shoreditch …

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[ad_1] Decanter magazine launched its online reader survey in March 2024, giving all regular and occasional readers an opportunity to say what they would like to see more, or less, of in the long-standing print publication. As an added incentive, five respondents to the short survey will be randomly selected to win a one-year subscription to Decanter Premium, worth £99 …

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[ad_1] Retailers sold 10 million fewer bottles of wine during the festive trading period than they did the previous year. Spirits sales also declined by 7.1% in the 12 weeks leading up to Christmas, according to new figures from the Wine & Spirit Trade Association (WSTA). That is equivalent to 7.7 million fewer bottles of spirits being sold, while beer …

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[ad_1] ‘It is a Grande Dame first and a rosé second,’ says Veuve Clicquot’s cellar master Didier Mariotti speaking of the newly released rosé cuvée of the 2015 La Grande Dame. It is one year on from the 2015 release of the white iteration of this homage to one of Champagne’s most important historical figures – Madame Clicquot, the widow …