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DWWA Shopper’s Guide: Award-winning wines from Booths

Booths is known for its dedication to sourcing quality local produce. The selection below, which includes some top performers from this year’s Decanter World Wine Awards, showcases this northern retailer’s quality, range – and good value. Booths is a small, family-run chain of supermarkets with 28 stores in the northwest of England. It’s known for its commitment to working with …

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Clos de la Roche: A Burgundian grand cru for those in the know

Clos de la Roche. Clos de la Roche is the largest grand cru in the Côte de Nuits’ Morey-St-Denis, producing sumptuous and ageworthy wines that easily last 50 years in the cellar. Despite its enviable location and undisputed quality, Clos de la Roche sometimes lacks the star power of the grands crus of Gevrey-Chambertin to the north or Chambolle-Musigny to …

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Cara Menguasai Panggung di Vampy Party

Cara Menguasai Panggung di Vampy Party merupakan judul dari sebuah artikel kami kali ini. Kami ucapkan Selamat datang di steveheimoff.com, Mengungkap Dunia Perjudian Melalui Kata-kata, Strategi, dan Kisah Nyata. Pada kesempatan kali ini,kami masih bersemangat untuk membahas soal Cara Menguasai Panggung di Vampy Party. Perkenalan Cara Menguasai Panggung di Vampy Party Vampy Party adalah permainan slot bertema vampir yang menghadirkan …

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A drink with… Pierre Mansour

The Wine Society has been celebrating its 150th anniversary throughout 2024, with a jam-packed programme of events, special bottlings and producer-facing initiatives. One of the highlights has been the quarterly release of the different tranches of the Generation Series. We sat down with wine director Pierre Mansour ahead of the fourth and final launch. Decanter: These last few years have …

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Ghosts of Napa Valley film released before Halloween

Ghosts of Napa Valley is being released via Somm TV this month. Ghosts of Napa Valley is a documentary film by Jason Wise, the James Beard award-winning director behind the Somm series, and seeks to take a light-hearted and spooky look at haunted tales in the region. It follows three friends – sommelier Claire Coppi, wine writer Shakera Jones and …

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Greener wine travel: Champagne by train

The high-speed TGV train travelling alongside vineyards, Reims, Champagne. Most visitors to Champagne head for Epernay, a quiet town whose main attraction, the Avenue de Champagne, is home to a number of well-known Champagne houses (including a fair few who trade more on the foot traffic than the quality of the wines), the regional museum of Champagne’s wines, and a …

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Thoroughbred Headed To A Barn

Ron Rubin’s TRAINED FOR SAVING LIVES program has his thoroughbred headed to a barn. The magnitude of Ron Rubin’s TRAINED FOR SAVING LIVES program cannot be underscored. Ron’s dream is to give away 450 Automated External Defibrillators (AED), and only 42 of them remain. More details are on my blog Ron Rubin’s TRAINED FOR SAVING […] The post Thoroughbred Headed …

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Bousquet Leads The Way in 2024

Domaine Bousquet Leads The Way If ever there were wine leaders, who were willing to go on their own and become extremely successful, it’s Domaine Bousquet. Crafting wines in Mendoza Argentina, a newly released “Semi-Annual Sustainability Report Update” recently came into my hands. Jump to here for it.  They just do it all, and do […] The post Bousquet Leads …

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VENDANGES 2024

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Terasses du Larzac: The untamed freshness of the high Languedoc

Terraced vineyards in the dramatic landscape at Domaine du Pas de l’Escalette, Poujols The mountainous area of the Massif Central occupies about a sixth of France, bordering Beaujolais and the Rhône to the east and Languedoc to the south. The massif’s southern section consists of a number of limestone plateaus – called causses in the Occitan language, from the Latin …

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Vinography Unboxed: Week of 10/13/24

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 week included a bunch of excellent wines, but also some wines that are super …

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JEU DE LUMIERE – VENDANGES 2024

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Bibbiano’s Current Releases from Castellina in Chianti

Located near Castellina in Chianti, the 220 ha Bibbiano estate dates back to the 11th century, although the Marzi family began its ownership in the mid 19th century.  After WWII, Pier Tomaso Marzi and his son-in-law Alfredo Marrocchesi renovated the estate with the assistance of famed enologist Giulio Gambelli who made the wines until the turn of the century.  Today, …

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2024 Grand Tastings: A Night Not to Be Missed

Giovanni Manetti didn’t think he was going to make it to the 2024 New York Wine Experience. The growing season was long in Tuscany this year, and grapes for Manetti’s legendary Fontodi winery were still hanging on the vine in mid-October. So he dispatched his son with several cases of their super Tuscan Flaccianello 2008 to pour at the Grand …

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Vine in vineyard

Inka56 has added a photo to the pool: Smile on Saturday and “view the V…” Today, in our vineyard, there are only branches and leaves on the vine, the grapes are in barrels. HSoS! Source : https://www.flickr.com/photos/138807894@N02/54076734979/in/pool-52609756@N00

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