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Amorim: ‘Portugal has embarked upon a revolution’ - 2 dagen geleden
Amorim: ‘Portugal has embarked upon a revolution’ After a slow start, super-premium Portuguese unfortified wines are starting to make waves with aficionados and collectors, according to leading estate owner, Luisa Amorim.door JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
Cyber security experts warn over online wine scams - 2 dagen geleden
Cyber security experts warn over online wine scams Scammers have increasingly used wine-themed domain names to target potential victims during parts of the Covid-19 lockdown, a recent cyber security report has suggested.door JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
20 rootstocks for tomorrow’s vineyards in Burgundy - 2 dagen geleden
20 rootstocks for tomorrow’s vineyards in Burgundy Which rootstocks are best suited to Burgundy vineyards for the next 50 years? In a recently published guide, this was the question the marketing board attempted to provide answers to.door JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
Markus Molitor | Among the elite of German wines - 2 dagen geleden
Markus Molitor | Among the elite of German wines The star of German Riesling At the age of just 20, in 1984, Markus Molitor took up his family domain in Germany’s Mosel region, which we find within the winemaking area of Wehlener Klosterberg. Here, he set his intention to put terroir front and centre in his work, producing Rieslings that would carry the family name held by eight generationsdoor JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
Elizabeth Gabay MW on Tavel rosé – wine of kings and king of wines - 2 dagen geleden
Elizabeth Gabay MW on Tavel rosé – wine of kings and king of wines While recent fashion dictates that rosé is a wine that is only salmon pink and to be enjoyed al fresco, served from an ice bucket, the Tavel rosé wines are an altogether different beast. These are not for those looking for delicate aperitif rosés, but are more serious wines, preserving their heritage and just as happily paireddoor JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
What Makes Natural Wine Exclusionary? The Name, Some Say - 3 dagen geleden
What Makes Natural Wine Exclusionary? The Name, Some Say Megan Bell, winemaker at Margins Wine, is frustrated by the term “natural wine.” While there’s no official U.S. designation, it generally refers to wines made without chemicals, flavoring or coloring agents, as well as no added sugars or acids, fining or filtration. Many believe that natural wines should be made without additional suldoor JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
Why Super-Tuscans have fallen from fashion - 3 dagen geleden
Why Super-Tuscans have fallen from fashion In the 1980s, the wine world was in thrall to the Super-Tuscans. These pioneering Bordeaux blends took the market by storm, quickly commanding stratospheric prices. But while once hailed as a driving force behind the modernisation of Italian winemaking, today the Super-Tuscans are suffering an identity crisis.door JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
It’s time to change a racially insensitive Italian grape name. - 3 dagen geleden
It’s time to change a racially insensitive Italian grape name. The more closely you look at a word, wrote the early 20th-century aphorist Karl Kraus, the more distantly it looks back at you. This nugget of wisdom couldn’t be more true when it comes to the name of one of Puglia’s most important grape varieties, Negroamaro.door JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
Re: French vineyards on maximum frost alert - 3 dagen geleden
How frost decimates vineyards Frost has been much in the news lately, as early spring frosts have decimated vineyards throughout Europe, especially France and the northern half of Italy. Leading Champagne grower Larmandier-Bernier estimated the April 6th to 7th frost damaged 30% of their vines.door JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
HOW TO PAIR MUSIC AND WINE - 3 dagen geleden
HOW TO PAIR MUSIC AND WINE Wine and music pairing is becoming increasingly popular, and the effectiveness of using music to enhance a wine tasting experience has received substantial empirical confirmation. (I summarized this data and the aesthetic significance of wine and music pairing last month on this site.) But to my knowledge there is no guide to how one should go about wine and music padoor JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
Grapevine pruning in Barolo: pursuing vitality and longevity in Nebbiolo - 9 dagen geleden
Grapevine pruning in Barolo: pursuing vitality and longevity in Nebbiolo Left untamed, the grapevine is an unruly, perennial, deciduous, climbing plant. Using its tendrils, amongst other adaptive features, the vine, a liana, will use nearby trees to climb up and above the canopy established by competing trees and plants. A heliophyte, Vitis has by process of natural selection acquired a numberdoor JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
Here’s why Bordeaux should be cautious with en primeur pricing - 9 dagen geleden
Here’s why Bordeaux should be cautious with en primeur pricing With this year’s en primeur campaign fast approaching, we reveal why Bordeaux should be cautious when it comes to the pricing of the 2020 releases.door JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
Giving back in South Africa - 9 dagen geleden
Giving back in South Africa Although it resulted in commercial disasters such as bringing wine exports to a grinding halt, the pandemic has also sped certain things up. We’ve all been forced to make choices in this past year that have affected both our work and personal lives. We’ve all had to go deeper. In the eternal battle between good and evil some have revealed themselves as crisis opportdoor JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
Vermentino becomes most bottled grape in Maremma - 9 dagen geleden
Vermentino becomes most bottled grape in Maremma Having long been tipped as an Italian grape to watch, last year Vermentino became the most-bottled grape variety in DOC Maremma Toscana.door JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
DOQ Priorat’s first “Grans Vinyes Classificades” - 9 dagen geleden
DOQ Priorat’s first “Grans Vinyes Classificades” DOQ Priorat has officially announced the first wines to be released under the “Gran vinya classificada” scheme by certifying: Mas de la Rosa of Vall Llach, 1902 – Tossal d’en Bou of Mas Doix, and l’Ermita of Álvaro Palacios in what should be regarded as “Grand Cru” vineyards at the top of the new DOQ Priorat classification pyramid, introduced indoor JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
Cavas de Guarda Superior to be 100% organic by 2025 - 11 dagen geleden
Cavas de Guarda Superior to be 100% organic by 2025 The Consejo Regulador de la Denominación de Origen Protegida Cava (DO Cava) has announced that the production of Cavas de Guarda Superior will be 100% organic by 2025.door JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
Can You Have Alcohol After the Covid Vaccine? - 11 dagen geleden
Can You Have Alcohol After the Covid Vaccine? Moderate drinking is unlikely to impair the immune response to the Covid vaccine, but heavy drinking might.door JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
Bordeaux looks back on its 2020 vintage - 11 dagen geleden
Bordeaux looks back on its 2020 vintage “As the harvest got nearer, the Covid-19 pandemic caused a lot of concern among wine growers. Various adjustments had to be made, but the harvest nevertheless went ahead in good conditions”, recall Laurence Gény and Axel Marchal from the Institute of Vine and Wine Science (ISVV) in their newsletter on the 2020 vintage.door JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
The top 15 most powerful wine brands worldwide - 11 dagen geleden
The top 15 most powerful wine brands worldwidedoor JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
Breaking new ground in Champagne and England - 12 dagen geleden
Breaking new ground in Champagne and England Ever-warmer summers keep delivering more and more wines that would have been unthinkable two or three decades ago when the grapes would simply not have been ripe and healthy enough: Norwegian Riesling, Nova Scotia fizz, Belgian Chardonnay to rival Puligny-Montrachet, and really serious still wines from regions previously associated with sparkling widoor JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
Police seize large volume of ‘illegal’ communion wine in Quebec - 12 dagen geleden
Police seize large volume of ‘illegal’ communion wine in Quebec Police in the Canadian province of Quebec have seized large quantities of communion wine from suppliers, claiming it had violated import laws.door JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
Girondins de Bordeaux : les réactions plutôt positives du monde du vin… sur le terrain de la reprise - 12 dagen geleden
Girondins de Bordeaux : les réactions plutôt positives du monde du vin… sur le terrain de la reprise 24 heures après la tribune de François Pinault, visant un projet de reprise des Girondins par le monde du vin, les réactions ne se sont pas faites attendre. Côté châteaux a fait son tour d’horizon pour voir si le projet était crédible. On va dire que l’idée est très bien accueillie, en revanchedoor JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
Holy War over Religious Wines - 13 dagen geleden
Holy War over Religious Wines Altar wine goes natural and a winemaker decries profiteering at auction in this week's news round-up. Natural wine officially holier than thoudoor JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
Nature’s Perfect Cellar? Aging Bottles on the Ocean Floor Is the Wine World’s Weirdest New Trend - 13 dagen geleden
Nature’s Perfect Cellar? Aging Bottles on the Ocean Floor Is the Wine World’s Weirdest New Trend For somewhere cool and dark to lay down your wine, skip the cave and head for the ocean.door JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
Neutral Oak - 13 dagen geleden
Neutral Oak The wine was a technical perfection. It was made with beautiful, ripe fruit by a talented, technically proficient winemaker. The color was gorgeous, but there was one big problem. I could not bear to drink it. The wine tasted like a big California pinot — not, as they said on Seinfeld, that there’s anything wrong with that. The problem was that this wine was from Burgundy.door JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
These are the countries that drank the most wine in 2020 - 13 dagen geleden
These are the countries that drank the most wine in 2020 Data from Paris-based International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) has revealed the countries that drank the most wine in 2020, after global consumption fell to its lowest point since 2002.door JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
What is a second wine? - 13 dagen geleden
What is a second wine? As prices for grands crus classés reach new heights, and just before the 2019 vintage comes onto the market, iDealwine takes a look at the Bordeaux specific phenomenon of « second wines ». Ancient tradition or marketing ploy? A good buy or a misguided choice?door JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
The new German wine classification | Per on Forbes - 13 dagen geleden
The new German wine classification | Per on Forbes Germany introduces a wine hierarchy based on geography Germany has introduced a new “classification” system for its wines, under the name Qualitätswein. It creates a hierarchy of wines – Area, Region, Village and Vineyard – with increasingly smaller units. It is assumed that “smaller is better”. The existing system with Prädikat will remain idoor JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
Premiumisation of Pinotage - 13 dagen geleden
Premiumisation of Pinotage Pinotage prices are steadily increasing as connoisseurs crave the cultivar and are prepared to pay for premium Pinotages.door JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord
Finding New Life for Wine-Grape Residue - 13 dagen geleden
Finding New Life for Wine-Grape Residue Chardonnay Pomace May Be Rich in Health-Enhancing Compoundsdoor JohnCopier - Wijn-prikbord