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Join us on Saturday 16 November for DFWE London, where you’ll have a unique opportunity to experience an exceptional tasting of Bordeaux second growth wines from the St-Julien appellation at the Château Ducru-Beaucaillou masterclass. Château Ducru-Beaucaillou, established in 1720 and a grand cru classé since 1855, has long been renowned for its refined elegance and its exceptional age-worthiness. Vineyard holdings …

A Bâtard-Montrachet grand cru sign that is part of the November 2024 auction. An auction of Burgundy appellation signs that were situated across the vineyard region for around 20 years are to be auctioned off this November, after being replaced with new plaques.  Famous grands crus, such as Chambertin, Bonne Mares and Bâtard-Montrachet, will be represented alongside place-name plaques for …

Back in 1851 when Marist missionaries planted some of New Zealand’s first vines in Hawke’s Bay, they couldn’t have known what the area would become. But fast forward through decades of growth – as well as challenges ranging from earthquakes to cyclones – and the country’s second-largest wine region is now a tourism hotspot. Thirsty travellers seeking vinous exploration that …

Harvesting agave at Tequila Ocho, east of Guadalajara You might, in seeking out a special bottle of tequila, gravitate towards those amber-coloured, long-aged luxury expressions – añejos and extra añejos – in their fancy packaging. But a growing number of noteworthy blanco tequilas are doing things differently, without an oak cask in sight. Meanwhile, cristalinos – aged expressions that are …

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Rugged Howell Mountain. Credit: Suzanne Becker Bronk Napa Cabernet 2021: full vintage report and top-scoring wines Howell Mountain Wine producers who source grapes and farm grapes on Napa’s Howell Mountain were already well positioned for the drought conditions presented by the 2021 vintage. Situated above the fog line and planted on mountainous slopes that are naturally well-draining, prime vineyards in …

Glenmorangie’s new Pursuit of Passion Wine Cask Collection Glenmorangie is a single malt whisky that is no stranger to wine cask maturation. But the new Glenmorangie Pursuit of Passion Wine Cask Collection elevates that association to a different level. Fans of the Highland distillery will be used to core expressions such as The Lasanta 12 Years Old (Sherry casks), The …

For Maison Perrier-Jouët, sustainability is not a modern fad – Pierre-Nicolas Perrier was a renowned botanist and horticulturist, and he and Rose-Adélaïde Jouët established the Champagne house with a firm commitment to sustainable viticulture. The founding ethos remains central to this day: Perrier-Jouët has set itself the ambitious goal of implementing regenerative viticultural practices in all its own vineyards and …

An early morning at Hirsch Vineyards during harvest. What started as a worrisome record-breaking hot summer has cooled enough and given the Golden State an excellent crop. North Coast: Starting in Northern California, on Sonoma’s far western coast, is Hirsch Vineyards, a Pinot Noir-focused site perched atop California’s coastal mountain range in view of the Pacific Ocean. Winemaker Jasmine Hirsch …

The first part of this article attempted to tackle the timeline of events that led to Propeller’s collapse into liquidation. This ranged from suppliers (and occasionally, staff) beginning to go unpaid from mid-to-late 2023 onwards, the freezing of its warehouse account by London City Bond, and two failed deals aimed at saving the company in late 2023 and early 2024. …

Joe Tsai at The Asian American Foundation Heritage Month Awards Dinner at The Glasshouse in May 2024. Joe Tsai, who became chairman of Alibaba in 2023, is part of a consortium of investors to have acquired vineyards in prestigious parts of Burgundy, according to media outlet Bloomberg. If confirmed, the move would put Tsai among an unofficial club of wealthy …

A busy summer at Decanter’s London headquarters saw us renovate our tasting suite, the beating heart of our operations. The suite is where we hold all our panel tastings, receive and process samples and have, in the past, hosted tutorial-like sessions for subscribers – led by leading contributors – focused on tasting methodology, specific styles and regions. The redesigned space …

Ferrari’s winery in Trento Following a hot and hectic week at Vinitaly in Verona, I jumped at the opportunity to head to the more temperate mountains of Trentino to meet with Cyril Brun, the new chef de cave at Ferrari Trento, together with Camilla Lunelli, head of marketing and third generation of the family running Ferrari and the Lunelli Group. …

Rare Champagne traces its roots back to 6 May, 1785, when Florens-Louis Heidsieck met Queen Marie Antoinette, expressing his desire to create a cuvée ‘worthy of a queen’. Two centuries later, the brand released its first vintage, Rare Millésime 1976. In the past four decades, Rare Champagne has declared only 14 vintages, each representing the most exceptional years in Champagne. …

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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. Why You Should Stop Being Afraid of Sulfur in WineYour periodic reminder. The future …

Vineyards of Cote Rotie in France Tall and slim, with bright, expressive eyes, Julien Barge has something of the mad scientist about him. His family has lived in the same street in Ampuis for 200 years, but the impression of permanence this offers is illusory. This is a Côte-Rôtie estate in constant evolution. Julien took over from his father Gilles …

In this Olympic year, Greek producer Kir-Yianni is celebrating its own podium performance. Its gold medal-winning Diaporos Xinomavro 2019 was one of the three highest-scoring Greek reds at DWWA 2024, while its Naoussa Cuve?e Villages Xinomavro 2021 was awarded a silver. Kir-Yianni was founded in 1997 by Yiannis Boutaris after he left Boutari, the family winery founded by his grandfather …

Got Wine, Liquor, and Marijuana Wine sales are down, and there are a lot of people talking about this, within my chosen field. Prohibitionists are loving it as they try to cash in on some guilt, while indoctrinate their religious beliefs in the process. I got a really obvious Email after I wrote, “The Neo-Prohibitionism […] The post Got Wine, …

An old vine in Oakville. Napa Valley Cabernet 2021: full vintage report and top-scoring wines The 2021 vintage in Oakville produced some of Napa Valley’s best wines, hewn from a growing season that was even, calm, and free from the impacts of wildfires or significant heat spikes. However, this was not a vintage devoid of some drama for Oakville growers: …