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Taiwanese media outlet Business Today received a tip-off claiming that the country’s elites have been caught up in a series of fake wine transactions. They allegedly spent more than NT$1bn (£23.6m) on high-end Burgundy at two merchants – Top 100 Wine and UMC. These wines are now suspected to be fake. Huang Huihong, who runs Top 100 Wine, has reportedly …

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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. This Up-and-Coming Wine Region Is “What Napa Used to Be Like 30 Years Ago”Laid …

An old vine, with the Canigou mountain in the Pyrenées in the distance. According to Antoine Lespès, research and development manager at Domaine Lafage just outside Perpignan, the average rainfall at this Roussillon estate between 2010 and 2023 was just 550mm per year. These last few years have been particularly dry: in 2021 and 2022 there was 340mm. In 2023, …

The Kent-based producer continues to rack up major accolades, as Chapel Down Rosé landed a prestigious ‘Best in Show’ award at the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA) this year. Chapel Down Kit’s Coty Coeur de Cuvée 2016 was the big winner at the WineGB Awards, held at Drapers Hall in London on Friday evening. It was named Top Sparkling Wine …

Deep roots and volcanic soils in Hamel’s Nuns Canyon Vineyard. Riggs Lokka stands in a seven-foot soil pit on Green Valley’s Hallberg Ranch in Russian River Valley. With a cowboy hat atop his head, he points out the soil types from ground level to the base of the pit. The line of demarcation two feet down is stark. What begins …

Looking down onto the Place du Marché from the balcony of the Place du Clocher in St-Emilion’s historical centre. Nestled amid the rolling hills of the Bordeaux wine region, the small, picturesque town of St-Emilion is steeped in history and revered by wine enthusiasts around the globe. Here, the art of winemaking is not merely a trade but a sacred …

A view across the pool… California wine country may be on the doorstep, but this luxury property on the edge of Sonoma also comes with its own 1.6 hectares (four acres) of Chardonnay vines. Photo credit: Jack Hecker for Sotheby’s International Realty. That could be tempting for anyone wanting to get hands-on with this famous white grape variety, although the …

Rotari winery in Trentodoc in Italy’s north-east Trentodoc, the celebrated sparkling wine from Trento DOC in north-east Italy, is famed as one of Italy’s finest. Known locally as ‘the sparkling wine from the mountains’, Trentodoc is always made using the traditional method, making it vastly different from the tank-fermented Proseccos made further south in Veneto. One of the top Trentodoc …

The smallest bottle you might see on shop shelves holds 187.5ml – a quarter of a standard bottle of 750ml. While a salmanazar holds nine litres, the equivalent of 12 standard bottles. When is a bottle not a bottle? When it’s a piccolo, jeroboam or balthazar. And knowing the specific sizes of each – and their unique names – is …

The key Champagne releases of 2024 so far….Charles Heidsieck, Blanc des Millénaires 2014 Charles Heidsieck has released only the fifth vintage of its blanc de blancs prestige cuvée Blanc des Millénaires since the celebrated 1995. The 2014 vintage, which follows on from the 2007, marks a subtle shift. While the blend still hails from the Côte des Blancs villages of …

The Hospices de Beaune. Griveau remains upbeat about the organic conversion despite the seldom-seen pressure from downy mildew during the growing season of 2024. She notes that the organic methods are not a new initiative but the culmination of many years of work. Her predecessor, Roland Masse, held the first organic trials in 2010-2011, and the approach has been fully …

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 some bits and bobs from California and northern Italy among other …

Composition’s Katrina Rank and Bertrand de Villaine ‘It all started in a class I was taking in Burgundy in 2016,’ says winemaker Katrina Rank about her winemaking partnership with de Villaine: Composition. On that day in Burgundy, Rank had asked Bertrand de Villaine if he’d ever considered making wine from Oregon’s Willamette Valley, a proven sweet spot for Pinot Noir and …

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Christine Parkinson, Sarah Jane Evans MW and Valentin Radosav tasted 93 wines, with 8 Outstanding and 49 Highly Recommended. Premium Spanish sparkling: Panel tasting scores 93 wines tasted Exceptional 0 Outstanding 8 Highly recommended 49 Recommended 36 Commended 0 Fair 0 Poor 0 Entry criteria: producers and UK agents were invited to submit their Spanish sparkling wines produced according to …

Valsangiacomo family – the fourth and fifth generations at the helm of the eponymous wine group When, in 2016, the Valsangiacomo family purchased the El Albardín vineyard in the village of San Juan de Requena, an important stage of its Bobal project had been completed. Having acquired the former local cooperative in 2010, the family was now able to produce …

It is a universal truth that the world’s greatest wines all come from places of great beauty. But the variety of that beauty can be astonishing. The Mosel Valley is one of the wine world’s uniquely spectacular wine landscapes that embodies centuries of nurture and care. The region is full of gorgeous views, but this one, a look across the …

Wine Legend: Château Cheval Blanc 1947, St-Emilion, Bordeaux, France Number of bottles produced: 110,000 Composition of blend: 50% Cabernet Franc, 50% Merlot Yield (hl/ha): 37.4 Alcohol content: 14.4% Release price: 15-50 ‘old’ francs Average price today: £16,887 ex-tax (source: Wine-Searcher) A legend because… Experienced tasters often maintain that this is not only the finest Cheval Blanc of the 20th century …

The 27-litre bottle of Bibi Graetz Colore recently sold by ARVI. A new record was announced by Switzerland-based merchant ARVI after it sold the 27-litre bottle of Bibi Graetz Colore 2016 for 100,000 Swiss francs (£87,104).  It’s the most expensive bottle of Italian wine ever sold, said the retailer on its Instagram account. No details were given about the buyer …