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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Hello and welcome to my weekly dig through the pile of wine samples that show up asking to be tasted. I’m pleased to bring you the latest installment of Vinography Unboxed, where I highlight some of the better bottles that have crossed my doorstep recently. This past week included a couple of my favorite canned wines from Two Shepherds, their …

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The impressive Xige Estate. Landing in Yinchuan in central-north China back in May, five years after my last visit in 2019, I arrived at an opportune moment, just after the drama series The Homeland of Stars had premiered on national television. The wildly popular show, named for Ningxia’s renowned clear night skies, is based on a historical reality – one …

Most people never forget their first visit to a Champagne cellar, thanks to the impressive sight of huge walls of bottles stacked high as the wines inside go through their secondary fermentation. I’ve seen a lot of wine en tirage, but I continue to be impressed at the amount of work involved in stacking and unstacking so many bottles, and …

When my friend Michael Broadbent, the pioneer wine auctioneer, wrote his Decanter column (he kept it up for over 40 years) he often made life easy for himself by simply telling us where he’d had dinner and what they’d drunk. I’m not quite so convinced that you’d be interested in the Johnson family consumption, but there are occasions when I …

With so much rosé around the world trying to emulate the Provence-style, by which most producers mean a pale pink dry wine, it can be difficult to evaluate what makes a rosé ‘not from Provence’ a good wine. Should they be given a pat on the back for achieving a wine which is identical to those of Provence? Or should …

The world-renowned Decanter Fine Wine Encounter (DFWE) makes its spectacular debut in Singapore this October. On Saturday, 26 October 2024, the prestigious Shangri-La Hotel will transform into a lavish haven for wine enthusiasts and connoisseurs, marking an historic first for this illustrious event in the heart of Southeast Asia. This exclusive one-day event promises an extraordinary experience that will captivate …

A core to explore… Whisky aficionados will know That Boutique-y Whisky Company as a source of rare, interesting limited-edition and single-cask bottles. But now the cult independent bottler has released its Core Range – a permanent collection of five signature bottles that represent key whisky styles. Crafted in small batches, the new range includes a smoky Islay 8 Year Old …

Who’s behind it: Celebrated chef John Fraser—best known for veggie-forward, Mediterranean-inspired dishes—has arrived in Boston with beef on his mind at the newly opened Vermilion Club. Fraser’s collection of Wine Spectator Restaurant Award winners spans the country, from Ardor in Los Angeles to North Fork Table and Inn on New York’s Long Island. Vermilion Club is the first Beantown restaurant …

Chandon winemaker Pauline Lhote. ‘The first pick of 2024 for us at Chandon came from our home vineyard in Yountville, which is our warmest estate vineyard and we believe Napa’s northern limit for growing exceptional sparkling wine grapes,’ said winemaker Pauline Lhote. ‘We picked about 57 tons (52 metric tonnes) of Chardonnay on Wednesday from two different blocks in Yountville, …

Volcanic rocks in Tokaj. In partnership with Wines of Hungary Hungary may no longer have active volcanoes, but it does have a spectacular volcanic history, which continues to shape its wines to this day. The Pannonian Basin, nestled in the Carpathian Mountains, was an area of intense volcanic activity from shortly after the time of the dinosaurs to just a …

Vines in the island’s Timanfaya National Park Though the holiday island of Lanzarote seems an unlikely source for artisan wines made by hip and happening young winemakers, the island’s fast-developing wine scene is worthy of attention. Lanzarote has produced wine since the Spanish conquistadors colonised this Atlantic outpost in the 15th century. Scroll down for a selection of wines from… …

Clayton Fox is a sommelier at the Creole-contemporary restaurant Brennan’s in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, where he works under wine director and Advanced Sommelier Sam Bortugno. Clayton has twice had pieces selected for the jancisrobinson.com writing competition and can be found on Instagram @clayfoxsomm. He loves wines of soul and the people who make them. Has white …

It has been said that 93% of California winegrape acreage is planted to only eight varieties. Those numbers may have shifted slightly since I last heard that statistic quoted, but they’re still not materially different. This fact represents several things simultaneously: the narrow-mindedness (or conservatism if you want to be kinder) of wine producers, the lack of curiosity possessed by …

Willow Creek in Paso Robles, California. Established in 1983, Paso Robles, meaning ‘pass of the oaks’ in Spanish, is a Californian region with 16,500 hectares under vine. Ten years ago, 11 sub-American Viticultural Areas (AVAs) within the greater Paso Robles AVA were approved for use on labels. Conjunctive labelling laws, which have seen success in Napa Valley, require ‘Paso Robles’ …

Whether you call it Syrah or Shiraz, the grape variety is the same but the style of wine in the glass might be a little different. South Australia and South Africa, Rhône and The Rocks AVA in Walla Walla Valley: one red grape rules supreme. Whether labelled Syrah or Shiraz, the wine inside the bottle is from the same grape. The …