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@WineAlchemy1 has added a photo to the pool: Merlot, 10 days before picking, at Inama’s organic Villa del Ferro Vineyards, Colli Berici. Source : https://www.flickr.com/photos/winealchemy1/37017524161/in/pool-17918700@N00

Who’s behind it: Restaurateurs Stefano Secchi and David Switzer co-own Manhattan’s acclaimed Rezdôra, in the Flatiron District, which earned a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence in the 2024 Restaurant Awards. After more than a year of planning, they expanded by opening a new Italian restaurant, Massara, on Broadway, around the corner from Rezdôra’s location on East 20th Street. …

Petaluma is hot right now. And I’m not talking about this heat dome we’re under. The once-sleepy town best known for chickens, eggs, and homegrown star Winona Ryder has become a hip foodie extension of Sonoma Wine Country, with gourmet restaurants, charming boutiques, and ever-escalating real-estate prices. In truth, this gentrification has been going on for a while, but starting …

Left to right, Vinakoper head winemaker Boštjan Zidar; Vinakoper winemaker Rok Jamnik; wine label designer Pierre Martin; wine consultant Nicolas Vivas Bordeaux oenologist and wine consultant Nicolas Vivas has recommended adding the Refošk grape to a list of varieties allowed in the famous French region’s wines. His comments came three years since six ‘new’, non-Bordeaux grape varieties were approved for …

Catherine Yen, a wine educator based in Hong Kong, is a judge at the Decanter World Wine Awards 2024. Catherine YenCatherine Yen Catherine Yen is a WSET Diploma holder and won the McNie Tasting Trophy in 2013. Also a WSET Wine Educator, Catherine is qualified to teach up to Level 3. Catherine is a qualified “Wine Expert” in Japan and …

A vineyard in the Cape. Credit: GettyImages/Vicki Jauron/Babylon and Beyond Photography Contrary to popular belief – and if the 20 wines selected here are anything to go by – you can taste terroir through the lens of a blend. In South Africa’s case, white cuvées are the most transparent, with imaginative winemakers building a picture of place from a range …

Supple and elegantly structured, with detailed raspberry and cherry flavors that are accented by rose petal, brown baking spices and orange peel as this glides toward polished tannins. Drink now through 2032. 15,100 cases made. Source : e813e49feaeb0506e26926100571a572

Though elegant and linear, this red exudes ripe cherry, currant, rose, mineral and wild herb flavors. This version is racy, even, with vivid acidity driving the long aftertaste, which echoes the red fruit and mineral elements. Shows terrific energy and balance. Best from 2026 through 2040. 8,000 cases made, 2,500 cases imported. Source : 17943c13f6dceda0ddcb7446ece3d78b

The Primum Familie Vini is an organization uniting 12 prestigious, multi-generational, family-owned European wine companies. Each one makes one (or more) of the world’s greatest wines. But what exactly is the purpose of this exclusive collection of some of the world’s top wine companies? In many ways, they’re still trying to figure that out. The members of the PFV are: …

Reviews of recent releases from the first-growth châteaus of Bordeaux—Lafite Rothschild, Margaux, Haut-Brion, Latour and Mouton-Rothschild—have been conspicuously absent from the pages of Wine Spectator. In a free-ranging discussion between legendary Bordeaux and Napa winemaker Christian Moueix and Wine Spectator editor and publisher Marvin R. Shanken, the reasons are laid clear. During a recent lengthy interview by Shanken for the …

The post The Recent, from the Prehistoric (Victoria Wines, Part 1) appeared first on 1 Wine Dude. Over the last half of 2024, I’ve had the good fortune to be able to attend three tasting events (two of them virtual) for the media, exploring the wines of Victoria, Australia. Longtime friends of 1WD will recall that I spent a good …

Fresh analysis has offered new evidence of plants from the grape family becoming more prominent after the extinction of the dinosaurs, and researchers suggested this was possibly aided by vines growing relatively undisturbed in forests. It’s a hypothesis that followed the discovery of fossil grape seeds ranging from 19 million to 60 million years old in modern-day Colombia, Panama and …

Pasqua winery cellars in Spain Steeped as the wine industry is in history and tradition, championing innovative winemaking takes a singular vision. As it nears its centenary, Veneto’s esteemed Pasqua Vigneti e Cantine – renowned enough to be known simply as Pasqua Wines – is looking boldly to the future, embodying its identity as a ‘House of the Unconventional’ and …

Benoit Touquette (left) and Scott Becker of Realm. Credit: Realm. The days of valley-newcomer and family-founded winery projects like Warren Winiarski’s Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars or Jim Barrett’s Chateau Montelena and their self-made tales of slow growth into the storied brands of Napa seem about as anachronistic today as an eight-track cassette player. The door for such start-up wineries in …

Good wine books are few and far between. There are brilliant reference guides and a few classics that deserve to be read in full, but it’s rare to find a wine book that you want to dip into before bed, sink into an armchair with, or bask under on a sunny day. A handful of recent releases, however, break the …