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Stoked by warm temperatures and windy conditions, several wildfires broke out in California over the weekend, including one in Sonoma’s Dry Creek Valley, northwest of Healdsburg. The Point Fire ignited on the eastern shores of Lake Sonoma the afternoon of June 16 and quickly spread, nearing wineries and vineyards along West Dry Creek Road. As of June 17, more than …

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. Why local vintners are turning to spirits for future sales growthWhere the margins …

Petrus 1990 featured among the top lots in the sale. Rare Bordeaux and Burgundy wines from the Avery family’s collection were among the stars as total sales in the recent London-based auction reached almost £2.57m, including buyer’s premium, said Christie’s. It said the sale was 100% sold by lot. The June event was dubbed an offering of ‘last treasures’ from …

Letting wine breathe means exposing it to oxygen before drinking it. There are various reasons you might want to do this for your bottle, and also different methods to achieve results depending on the age and style of your wine. What are the benefits of letting a wine breathe? If you’ve ever left an opened bottle of wine overnight and …

Michel Chapoutier, of the Rhône’s M Chapoutier winery, presented eight Hermitage wines at DFWE NYC 2024 with Decanter’s Natalie Earl. As the sun glimmered on the Hudson River, glinting off skyscrapers and filling the 60th floor of the Manhatta building with light, masterclass guests hung on legendary Rhône winemaker Michel Chapoutier’s every word. Head of his family’s M Chapoutier winery, …

Ornellaia’s 16th annual auction of artist-designed bottles has raised $325,000, which the Bolgheri estate has donated to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s Mind’s Eye programme – a charity that helps the visually impaired to enjoy art through multi-sensory experiences. Throughout the history of the auction, each vintage of Ornellaia has been given a name to describe its character, which is …

Kelowna skyline including Okanagan Lake. A four-hour drive inland from Canada’s mountainous west coast, in the heart of British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley, is Kelowna, an energetic city known for its stunning landscapes, sprawling vineyards and flourishing culinary scene. Okanagan Lake is undoubtedly the city’s show stopper, as Kelowna sits on its right bank, at the approximate halfway point of the …

Wine has its own special vocabulary, and part of the journey towards a self-education (or formal education for that matter) in wine involves learning many of these terms and the nuances they unlock about wine. One of my favorites early in my exploration of wine was the French term garrigue, which refers to the mix of aromatic herbs commonly found …

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When it comes to getting bang for your buck on Bordeaux’s Right Bank, many in the know choose to start in the appellations of Fronsac and Canon-Fronsac. Situated 35km northeast of Bordeaux and 4km northwest of Libourne, these Merlot-centric sister sub-regions are inevitably overshadowed by their renowned Right Bank neighbours St-Émilion and Pomerol, and the wines have generally lower price …

Breezing Through Talha Tales? Impossible, and here’s why. It didn’t take me long to figure out that I couldn’t be just breezing through. I started by wanted to absorb the details of history from author Dr. Paul James Whites. But, his last 12 years of absorption, from being “there” firsthand (meeting, and researching), wasn’t a […] The post Breezing Through …

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Château Canon’s vat room. Picture Bordeaux’s top vineyards in 2024; cover crops bloom between vine rows where bare earth once reigned. Bees buzz. Horses, not tractors, plough the soil. Many more estates follow an organic or biodynamic path instead of relying on toxic sprays. The latest soil science has led to farming carefully, plot by plot. And due to the …

On June 8, the elegant Manhatta in New York City was transformed into a wine lover’s paradise for the third edition of Decanter Fine Wine Encounter (DFWE) NYC. This exclusive one day event, renowned for bringing together wine enthusiasts, connoisseurs and some of the finest wine producers from around the globe, offered attendees an unforgettable experience filled with an exquisite …

Vicente Dalmau Cebrián-Sagarriga, Count of Creixell, presented his family’s iconic wines from the historic Ygay Estate. With a soaring view looking down on the island of Manhattan, Vicente Dalmau Cebrián-Sagarriga, Count of Creixell, presented his family’s iconic wines from the historic Marqués de Murrieta Estate during the final masterclass of Decanter‘s 2024 New York Fine Wine Encounter. Dalmau explained that …

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Winemaker and owner Sam Bilbro of Idlewild Wines foot treading Nebbiolo grapes. For as much buzzy jargon as there is in the world of wine – small production, sustainable, organic, New World, natural, among them – the terms are quite definitive. In the last decade, however, the increasingly popular discussion around a new phrase has caused some confusion among consumers …

Maxim Chmora, head of the main department of federal customs revenue & tariff regulation of the Federal Customs Service of Russia, warned that a 200% protective duty could be applied to wine imports from NATO states. Moscow is also planning to slap a 50% tariff on wines from other so-called ‘unfriendly’ states, according to Chmora. ‘We understand that this duty …

A group of Ukranian vintners visit Napa’s Grgich Hills Estate. In an effort to extend hope and valuable viticultural knowledge, winemakers and wine industry professionals from war-torn Ukraine visited the bucolic Napa Valley, offering a moment of respite from the Russian invasion of their home country, which began in February of 2022. The event was centred around lessons in regenerative …