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Why We Like Old Wines
What exactly is the appeal of old wines?
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The dirt on vineyard soil
Jamie Goode looks at some of the issues of soil management, now understood to be a critical element of the vineyard.
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Bordeaux ranking | First-half review 2020
We are continuing our biannual wine analysis, this time of the iconic Bordeaux region. We’ll go through two rankings – top sales and top bottles, before discussing some general take-aways for this recently poured six-month period.
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Giving Bourbon the Burgundy Treatment
Bourbon doesn't have to taste the same, year after year, and one producer is out to prove it.
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Champagne sales are plummeting as celebrations get canceled amid the pandemic
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Champagne In Crisis Talks - Grapes Might Be Destroyed Due To Poor Sales
Champagne producers have been hit hard by the pandemic–fewer people are able to celebrate occasions and come together in groups where champagne is traditionally drunk. A crisis meeting has been called for August 18th, where decisions will have to be made about whether to destroy excess grapes or sell them to make hand sani
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Rediscovering Tuscany's Forgotten Classic
Vino Nobile di Montepulciano fell out of favor in the late 20th Century, but new approaches have reinvigorated it.© Visit Tuscany | Vino Nobile di Montepulciano fell out of favor in the late 20th Century, but new approaches have reinvigorated it.
Vino Nobile di Montepulciano is forever in the shadow of Brunello and Chianti, but it is worth explor
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Portugal’s Vintners on the Forefront of Climate Change
Hit harder than most wine regions by rising temperatures and drought, the small country emerges as a global leader in responding to the climate threat
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Bordeaux faces its wine oversupply
To stay competitive, Bordeaux is cutting wine production and focusing on better quality and marketing. Panos Kakaviatos reports.
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MAN SENDS EMPTY BOTTLE OF ‘SUSPICIOUS’ MOUTON FOR VERIFICATION
A man who failed to receive a refund for nine bottles of Mouton Rothschild purchased from a Chinese retailer that arrived without documentation has sent an empty bottle to Bordeaux for verification.
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Fixed price selection | The world’s finest vineyards
This summer, the holidays won’t be for travelling. The next best thing we can do is offer a tour of the world’s finest vineyards through our selection of fine, fixed price cuvées.
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Tokay is no longer okay from September
1 September 2020 marks the end of the transition period for use of ‘Tokay’, making it an offence under the Wine Australia Act 2013 (the Act) to describe or present an Australian wine using this term.
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REIMS OFFERS FREE CHAMPAGNE TO PROMOTE TOURISM
The Reims Tourism Office is giving away 3,000 bottles of Champagne to holidaymakers who stay for more than two nights in the region.
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Valentina Cubi’s Decade of Organic Winegrowing in Valpolicella
When I first tasted the Valpolicella wines produced by Valentina Cubi in January of 2011, I was captivated. After visiting the organic estate a few times over the last decade and tasting the wines during the annual Amarone Anteprima events that are held every February in Verona, my appreciation has only deepened. This year the wine
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Racism, yesterday and today, in the Italian wine industry.
In 2008, not long after Barack Obama had been elected as the 44th President of the United States, one of Italy’s highest-profile wine guides televised its annual wine awards gala on national television.
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DOC DELLE VENEZIE GAINS PROTECTION FROM EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DOC delle Venezie, one of Italy’s best-known wine designations, has been registered on eAmbrosia, the database of geographical indications and protected names in the EU for food and drink.
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Understanding (and Destroying) Grape Phylloxera
Genome mapping may benefit growers in their fight against grape phylloxera (Daktulosphaira vitifoliae), the insect that infested Pacific Northwest vineyards last year.
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France's 8-Year-Olds Head Off to Wine School
Through field trips and kid's passes, a château and the Cité du Vin museum are showing the future sommeliers of France that wine can be cool. But how do you teach tasting to third-graders?
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Premox explained
Premature oxidation (premox) is a scourge that has affected white burgundy since the mid-nineties. It needs to be distinguished from natural oxidation, which occurs in all wines over a long period.
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What Is Clean Wine And Should You Care?
Actress Cameron Diaz and her business partner, the entrepreneur Katherine Power, have been all over various media promoting their new product Avaline, a white wine and a rosé, which they bill as “clean wine”. This has stirred up a hornet’s nest of controversy. Here is how they describe this very sanitary liquid:
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Paper Beer, Wine and Spirits Bottles are Becoming a Reality
There is no shortage of waste in the beverage industry. As companies continue to look for ways to reduce their carbon footprint and deliver on green technologies, a number of producers have started to use paper or compostable bottles.
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Bordeaux Looks Directly Beyond La Place
With traditional sales channels hit by Covid, Bordeaux producers are thinking the unthinkable – direct to consumer sales.
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CHAMPAGNE HAS NOT YET SET YIELDS FOR 2020’S HARVEST – HERE’S WHY
Normally, by mid-July, Champagne would have released its yield limits for the upcoming harvest, but this year the region’s key actors can’t agree on the number, and here’s why.
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How Volcanoes and Plague Killed the Byzantine Wine Industry in Israel
Byzantine settlers in the Negev were making good coin by growing grapes and exporting booze around the world 1,500 years ago. Then came eruptions and the Justinian Plague
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Amsterdam company creates new vegan trainers from ‘wine leather’
A trainer company in Amsterdam has announced its new vegan-friendly trainers made from 'wine leather', to be launched later this year.
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Château d'Yquem certified organic by 2022
Announced as a matter of course on May 13, 2019 by Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH, the switch-over to organic farming at Château d'Yquem began shortly afterwards. The conversion is highly symbolic and the aim is to secure certification by the 2022 vintage. “We began the switch-over process on August 12, 2019, but we had already been testin
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Dry Spell Ahead for Château Climens
A Sauternes giant is moving away from the sweet path with its new cuvée.
Fair warning, this is a wine geek's story. I found it interesting and if you're of a certain mindset, you might also.
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PROVENCE VINE GROWER SHOT AT WHILE SPRAYING CROP
Representatives from the local farming and winemaking associations have written to the French President after a grower was shot at while spreading Bordeaux mixture on his vines.
Dit gaat wel heel eng worden.
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SA Phylloxera Outbreak Plan coming soon
Significant work has occurred on the new South Australian Phylloxera Outbreak Plan, and a draft plan will soon be available to review.
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The genome of the phylloxera that devastated European vines in the nineteenth century, deciphered
The genome of the phylloxera, an insect that caused plagues that devastated European vines in the 19th century, has been deciphered by an international team involving researchers Miquel Barberà and David Martínez, from the Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), center of the Univers
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