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TOP 100 WINES OF AUSTRIA 2022
Austria was blessed with a much better 2021 vintage than most places in Western Europe and that greatly influenced our new Top 100 Wines of Austria 2022, and it also gave us our Austrian Wine of the Year.
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TOP 100 WINES OF SOUTH AFRICA 2022
The JamesSuckling.com tasting team rated more than 800 South African wines this year, and it’s fair to say that chenin blanc outperformed all the amazing varieties popping up across the country. In fact, South Africa is turning into a great white wine producer overall, and is perhaps even better with modern chenin blanc than the holy grail for the grape, Fran
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Lebanese Wine: Renaissance Interruptus
My most recent post covered the role of the Phoenicians in the spread of wine across the Mediterranean. As was the case for Iranian wine, production in the Levant contracted with the introduction of Islam to the region, with wine permitted only for use by Christians in the course of their religious pursuits.
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TOP 100 WINES OF FRANCE 2022
This year’s Top 100 Wines of France list celebrates the fantastic 2019 vintage in Bordeaux. Of the more than 5,500 French wines the JamesSuckling.com team tasted this year, the 1,500 or so Bordeaux 2019s stood out for their quality of fruit, structure and freshness. And standing atop all of them is our French Wine of the Year, the Château Smith-Haut-Lafitte Pessac-
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Four new premier cru climats in Pouilly-Loché and Pouilly-Vinzelles will help “raise profile of all Mâconnais wines”
The recognition of four new premier cru climats in Pouilly-Loché and Pouilly-Vinzelles in the Mâcon in the next 18 months, will help raise the profile of all Mâconnais wines, one producer has told the drinks business.
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On Complexity
A wine, like a short story, should have a beginning, a middle and an end. Nobody would disagree with that. But how many do? How many start, toddle along for a bit and then finish, all without very much happening?
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Is ‘borderless’ wine the future?
A new wine, dubbed “solidarity in a bottle”, poses the question of whether the wine trade should focus less on singular provenance to survive.
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A robot will use hydrogen fuel cells in vineyards
At the Vinitech trade fair in Bordeaux, the Exel group showcased an environmentally-friendly prototyping of Traxx using a new fuel, namely hydrogen. To achieve this, Exxact Robotics, the research centre for the Exel Industries group, and Fétis Group, via its subsidiary Dintec, have joined forces. The partnership has produced the Traxx Concept H
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TOP 100 WINES OF ITALY 2022
It’s not all about Tuscany anymore with our Top 100 Wines of Italy list. Although the region continues to dominate the list this year, other areas are pushing through with plenty of top-quality wines from Piedmont, Sicily, Alto Adige and other parts of the country. And even if a large part of our list of the best Italian wines of 2022 comes from Tuscany, it’s not ju
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Natural Wine: Entering the French Mainstream?
Natural wine remains a niche but, as Magalie Dubois reveals, it is steadily building a following in France.
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New limits on Etna to control invasive investment
New moves to limit Etna DOC (PDO) wine production volumes have been designed to maintain and control average grape prices, as a way of preserving the Sicilian mountain’s wine economy, its environment and viticultural heritage, the Etna DOC wine board has said.
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Italy: Grim Perspectives for 2023
Declining sales and low profitability loom on the horizon. The wine industry must prepare for a difficult year.
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The wines emerging from Argentina’s Cordoba
Ask anyone about Argentinian wine and you can be sure to hear about the calibre of the Malbec or the skilled winemaking coming out of Mendoza. But those in-the-know are wise to the fact that Cordoba is now home to some of the most exciting winemaking destinations in all of Argentina.
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Devil's Advocate - Bordeaux - the Rich Get Richer, While the Poor Uproot Their Vines
Robert Joseph looks beyond the financially attractive top Grands Crus Classés, at the far less successful mass of Bordeaux and its sub-appellations where large swathes of vines are due to be uprooted.
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Cru de Bourgeois mulls move to alternative formats and climate-resistant varieties
Cru Bourgeois de Medoc is looking at extending to new formats such as Bag-in-box for its wines, as well as more climate resistant grape varieties that will combat the challenges the region is facing.
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Baden: De Beste Wijnmakers - Vinum WeinGuide Deutschland/ Duitsland 2023
De Vinum Weinguide Germany 2023 werd een paar weken geleden uitgebracht en presenteerde de keuze van Vinum van de beste 1 000 wijnproducenten van Duitsland en beoordeelt meer dan 10 700 wijnen op 1118 pagina's.
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Why you need to visit Tokaj: winelands, gastronomy and more
You’ve tasted the wine, now visit the region, says Linda Galloway after a visit to Tokaj, Hungary’s oldest wine region. There are miles of wine caves to explore, new state-of-the-art tasting rooms, historic estates plus a range of gastronomy and hospitality to indulge yourself in. Galloway points out some of the key wineries, plus giv
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Wine aromas, part 2—On olfaction, the discipline of identifying wine aromas
Continued from A definition of wine aromas
When I was a 21-year-old restaurant sommelier (45 years ago) I honed my craft like many others—through constant blind or double-blind tastings. Something I rarely do these days except in occasional professional wine judgings.
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WINE TASTING AND EXPERTISE
Articles claiming that wine tasting expertise is “junk” or “fake” are a time-tested winner in the media guaranteed to get non-experts to nod in agreement, secure in their judgement that because they can’t tell a Zinfandel from a Syrah, no one else can either. These articles almost always take at face value poorly designed studies that purport to demonstrate that even
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Burgundy's Hospices de Beaune Charity Auction Hits a $32 Million Record
Thanks to enthusiasm over the 2022 vintage, 802 barrels of Burgundy raised the event’s highest total in 162 years
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New Grape Varieties for Provence
It's all change in France's south, while one Italian wine region is cautiously cheerful about global warming.
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Parts of Pouilly-Loché and Pouilly-Vinzelles set to obtain premier cru status
Four ‘climats’ within the Pouilly-Loché and Pouilly-Vinzelles appellations in Burgundy’s Mâcon region are set to be designated premier cru starting with the 2024 vintage, industry sources have said.
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German visiting scholar studies red wine quality
As a student in Germany, Ingrid Weilack was inspired by Washington State University enology professor Jim Harbertson. Now, the visiting scholar is experiencing what it’s like to work with him at the Ste. Michelle Wine Estates WSU Wine Science Center.
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The Green Heart of Italy: Umbria
Dubbed ‘the green heart of Italy” for its breathtaking biodiversity, the Umbria wine region stretches across rolling hills, wild forests, and pristine lakes bookended between the Apennine mountains.
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Is Zero-Alcohol Wine, 'Wine'? And Why Does it Matter?
There are moves to bring dealcoholised wine into the same legislation as conventional wine, and big brand owners are introducing zero-alc versions of their existing ones. Robert Joseph wonders if this is wise for the wine sector in general.
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Fine Wine Power 100: Burgundy Overtakes Bordeaux, Ch. Margaux Loses Top 10 Place
London-based wine exchange Liv-ex has released its latest Power 100 list of the strongest fine wine brands or producers. The list is based on the period from 1 October 2021 to 30 September 2022. Bordeaux is ousted from the top 10, the list is now dominated by Burgundy.
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The European framework law on sustainability on its way before the end of 2023
“A European framework law will be adopted by the end of 2023 to define sustainability in terms of legislation. It will have to clarify what sustainability is, how it is measured, what the criteria and minimum requirements for marketing are,” head of the wine unit of the DG for Agriculture of the European Commission,
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Château Lafite Rothschild Debuts Its First New Wine Label in More Than a Century
You'll be able to find Anseillan du Château Lafite Rothschild for under $100.
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Ahr: De Beste Wijnmakers - Vinum WeinGuide Deutschland/ Duitsland 2023
De Vinum Weinguide Germany 2023 werd een paar weken geleden uitgebracht en presenteerde de keuze van Vinum van de beste 1 000 wijnproducenten van Duitsland en beoordeelt meer dan 10 700 wijnen op 1118 pagina's.
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JohnCopier
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