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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 pa
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$1,000 Fake Bourbon Caught Being Sold by America’s Oldest Wine Merchant
Just a few years after being embroiled in a massive counterfeit wine scandal, America’s oldest wine shop, Acker Wines, has been accused by Inside Edition of selling a fake bottle of bourbon for nearly $1,000.
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investdrinks (blog)
Advice on avoiding some of the pitfalls that can be involved in wine investment. News of wine investment scams. Say no to cold callers. Don't buy investment wines from companies you don't know or haven't checked out. See page (right hand column) of companies from whom I wouldn't buy wine. Advice is always free, although there is a donate button on right-
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Cabernet Franc ‘supplanting Cabernet Sauvignon’ in Tuscany
Rising temperatures and hotter vintages are encouraging winegrowers in Tuscany to plant more Cabernet Franc in favour of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, according to Tenuta di Trinoro owner, Andrea Franchetti.
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SYSTEMATIC VINEYARD MONITORING FOR EFFECTIVE VINEYARD MANAGEMENT
MONDAY, MAY 3, 2021. BY STAN GRANT, VITICULTURIST.
My old employer, Julio Gallo used to say, “the best care a vineyard receives is the footsteps of its owner.” In other words, the most important element of vineyard care is vineyard monitoring (Figure 1). As such, vineyard monitoring is critical to vineyard business success.
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Words on Wine
Writing about wine is an art form almost as interesting as making it — and it's a lot less messy.
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French vineyard is selling ‘digital bottles’ of its Bordeaux for more than £300
French winemaker Château Darius is selling online images of wine bottles for more than £300 – capitalising on the surge in interest in non-fungible tokens, otherwise known as NFTs.
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InVivo agrees Soufflet takeover in French farming mega-deal
PARIS (Reuters) -Cooperative group InVivo has agreed to acquire family-owned Soufflet in a deal potentially worth 2.3 billion euros ($2.76 billion), as the French rivals look to create one of Europe’s biggest agricultural businesses.
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Trial vineyard in south of France experiments with foreign drought-resistant varieties to contend with climate change
Wine producers in the south of France are experimenting with a number of foreign grape varieties in an attempt to better contend with climate change.
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Sebastopol vintner launches boutique winery despite pandemic troubles
When Raghni Naidu was about to launch her boutique winery in Sebastopol last year, she didn’t let something like the pandemic stop her. After all, this was her dream.
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Barolo Rolls Out an Uneven Vintage
Heat was the big issue for the 2017 vintage in Barolo – and that is reflected in the wines.
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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 number
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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.
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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 opport
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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.
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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 in
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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.
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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.
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The top 15 most powerful wine brands worldwide
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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 wi
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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.
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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 revanche
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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 thou
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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 i
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Premiumisation of Pinotage
Pinotage prices are steadily increasing as connoisseurs crave the cultivar and are prepared to pay for premium Pinotages.
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Finding New Life for Wine-Grape Residue
Chardonnay Pomace May Be Rich in Health-Enhancing Compounds
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