The Ferragamo family, owners of the luxury fashion house Salvatore Ferragamo and the winery and hotel Il Borro, in Tuscany’s Valdarno di Sopra southeast of Florence, are expanding into the Brunello business. The family just closed a deal to buy the Pinino estate in Montalcino. The sale includes 40 acres of vineyards (with almost 19 acres designated for Brunello di …

Does wine add something special to your life? A way to connect with friends and family, a chance to travel the world without even leaving the table, a reason to head out of town to explore other regions, countries or cultures? Share why you love wine by submitting your short video to Wine Spectator’s 18th Annual Video Contest. This year, …

Who’s behind it: César is the new namesake restaurant from chef César Ramirez, who formerly led the kitchen of Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare (a past Wine Spectator Restaurant Award winner). Ramirez also previously worked at Grand Award winners the French Laundry and Le Bernardin, as well as at the late David Bouley’s Danube. “[It] was a longtime dream to …

A little more than ten years ago, an unsolicited case of wine showed up on my doorstep. That wasn’t particularly unusual, of course, but the place it came from managed to surprise me at the time. Those first 12 tastes of Idaho wine proved quite enlightening. They told the story of a wine region early in its development, with a …

Perinet winery in Priorat, Spain Call it Carignan, call it Mazuelo, call it Samsó – no matter which guise Carinyena takes, it’s often dismissed as a blending grape, only included to add colour and structure. But at Perinet in Priorat, winemaker Toni Sanchez-Ortiz is treating Carinyena as a star. Having worked in Australia, California and New Zealand, Sanchez-Ortiz returned home …

The wine legs tend to form easier in tannic red wines with higher alcohol, and richly sweet wines. Credit: David Silverman / Getty Images News ‘In all the tastings I host, I get more questions about wine legs than any other topic,’ says Matt Walls, Decanter World Wine Awards’ Regional Chair for the Rhône. ‘It’s surely one of the most …

The Weitenberg. Credit: Vinea Wachau / Herbst The Wachau region along the Danube valley is surely one of Europe’s unforgettable stretches of vineyard, alongside the Mosel in Germany and Douro in Portugal. Most of the vineyards are very steep, and terraced within stone walls so as to benefit from maximum exposure to sunlight. The vines are largely planted on the …

François Desirè Bazie. ‘I first had the idea of producing wine back in Burkina Faso about four years ago,’ said François Desirè Bazie, an asylum seeker turned winemaker committed to seeing vineyards flourish in his home country in West Africa. Born in Burkina Faso, Bazie sought asylum in Piedmont during the 2000s due to escalating civil conflict in Ivory Coast, …

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