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Daily Archives: August 12, 2024

Tenuta Viglione’s American Debut

Tenuta Viglione of Santeramo Italy is a family owned and operated winery; accordingly, they emphatically striving for the best quality wines. Basically, their reputation has been built upon excellence as their gold standard. Their commitment and craftsmanship demonstrate their expertise in all of their winemaking. And, their stories truly enhanced my appreciation for all that […] The post Tenuta Viglione’s …

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A Fresh Chapter in the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie War Over Miraval

In the latest development in what has proved to be one of the nastiest divorce battles to involve custody of a wine property, the Milan-based Campari Group has been drawn into the battle for Château Miraval. A new lawsuit by Nouvel, the company that Angelina Jolie sold to the Stoli Group, demands records from Campari America, which represents the prestigious …

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Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for August 12, 2024

The post Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for August 12, 2024 appeared first on 1 Wine Dude. I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes in a “mini-review” format. They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) …

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Ned Goodwin MW: In pursuit of regional identity in Australian Chardonnay

Chardonnay vines in Margaret River, Australia Australian Chardonnay has come of age. Since the bumptious iterations swaddled in oak of the 1990s, via the anorexic prototypes of the mid-2000s, the idiom has moved away from liminal extremes, to one that nestles comfortably between tension and ebullient fruit, with increasingly clear regional demarcations. While effete comparisons with Burgundy’s best were often …

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Vintage report: Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon 2021 & Chardonnay 2022

Vasse Felix in Cowaramup – established in 1967, the founding winery of the Margaret River wine region. For Decanter’s inaugural Margaret River vintage report, producers were asked to submit wines from the 2021 vintage for Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnays from 2022, which were all then tasted blind. While the 2022 whites shone, the 2021 reds reflected the cooler and somewhat …

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French harvest 2024: Mildew and poor fruit set to lower volumes

Vineyard in Maine et Loire. France’s wine harvest is forecast to fall as much as 16% in 2024 from a year earlier, with unusually rainy conditions during flowering hurting fruit set and a wet early summer prompting outbreaks of downy mildew in vineyards from Bordeaux to Alsace, said the French agriculture ministry’s Agreste statistics unit. National production may fall to …

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