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Interpreting Chenin Blanc
Chenin is one of the most versatile grape varieties making every shade of white; its personality oscillating pendulum-like depending on its site and its winemaker’s intention. From still to sparkling, dry to sweet and everything in between, the range of options available to the Chenin producer is more dizzying than a carousel. Admittedly, there is a growing thirst for
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‘It’s time we judged Italian wine on its own terms’
Sarah Heller MW argues that Italian wine is done a disservice when its appreciation is based on Bordeaux or Burgundian reference points
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Pesticide residue-free trust mark gains traction
Launched in 2018, the ‘pesticide residue-free’ endorsement supported by the ‘Nouveaux Champs’ collective of French producers and livestock farmers, has plenty to celebrate. In a recent press release, the group of “committed producers” reported that nearly 30% of the French have become familiar with the endorsement in just three years. The recogn
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Le meilleur des vins IGP de France
Pour les épicuriens, les exigeants et tous les autres...
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UNITED STATES MAN WHO RAN ILLEGAL ‘WINERY’ INSIDE SEWAGE PLANT IS SENTENCED
A man who was found to be running an illegal winery operation at a wastewater treatment plant has been sentenced in the United States.
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Shot in the arm for Germany
In a boost for German winemakers on the global stage, UNESCO has included ‘Wine Culture in Germany’ in its latest national register of intangible national heritage.
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Luca Rigotti takes on high EU office
The president of Mezzacorona represents the wine industry in Brussels.
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Refugees help French wine makers fill labour shortages
A leading French wine maker joins forces with an association of former rugby professionals to offer seasonal jobs and training to refugees in the wine industry.
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French fine wine still fine after orbiting Earth
Bordeaux, France: It tastes like rose petals. It smells like a campfire. It glistens with a burnt-orange hue. What is it? A €5000 bottle of Petrus Pomerol wine that spent a year in space.
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Space-aged Petrus tastes ‘more floral’ than Earth-aged equivalent
A bottle of Petrus aged for a year in space was found to be “softer” and “more floral” than its Earth-aged equivalent, hinting that its cosmic journey may have sped up the ageing process.
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Nach ISS-Aufenthalt: Forscher untersuchen Weltraumwein
Forscher in Frankreich untersuchen ein Dutzend Weinflaschen, die sich an Bord der Internationalen Raumstation ISS befunden haben. Dabei vergleichen sie ihn mit Wein aus einer Flasche des gleichen Jahrgangs, die in einem Keller auf der Erde aufbewahrt worden war.
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Du Petrus 2000 dans l’espace
On vient d’apprendre que les « fameuses » bouteilles envoyées dans l’espace via la fusée SpaceX Dragon en janvier 2020 viennent d’être transportées par avion à Bordeaux pour analyse.
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The aesthetics of wine
25 March 2021 Ferran reminded me about this article the other day as he wants to include a Spanish translation of it in the latest giant wine book he is producing in Barcelona for Bullipedia. I thought I would give it another Throwback Thursday airing and have updated some of the statistics. Aerial view of central Oxford by Sidharth Bhatia via Unsplash.com.
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CHAMPAGNE PALMER BRINGS WINEMAKING TRANSPARENCY WITH ID CODES
Champagne Palmer & Co has added a bottle ID to its back labels allowing consumers to find out information on disgorgement dates and other winemaking facts via its website.
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Is VeriVin The Holy Grail To Fight Wine Fraud?
Rudy Kurniawan, Hardy Rodenstock, The White Club are only some of the most famous ones. Many more names have this thing in common: They bring to mind wine fraud. Fake wine. Ridiculously expensive bottles that are not what they pretend to be, that’s often what one thinks of when talking about wine fraud. A bottle of Yquem from 1784 found behind a b
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BORDEAUX 2018 REVISITED: THE RIGHT BANK SATELLITE APPELLATIONS
Continuing his series on the challenging yet potentially excellent 2018 vintage, Colin Hay turns his attentions to the satellite appellations of the Right Bank, with detailed tasting notes on 70 wines. His Pomerol profile will follow shortly, with articles on each of the leading appellations of the Médoc and Pessac-Léognan to be pu
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Fixed price highlights | Spotlight on the Rhône
Whether you’re looking for the region’s big names or a rising star, the fruit of an illustrious appellation or something new and alternative, our selection from the Rhone is unbeatable.
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Die Sieger der Pinot Noir Trophy Schweiz 2020
Pinot Noir ist die wichtigste Traubensorte der Schweiz. Sie findet viele Terroirs, die der Traube zu wahrer Exzellenz verhelfen. Die Resultate der Falstaff Pinot Noir Trophy beweisen das eindrücklich.
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Where the Wild Things Are: Welcome to Sardinia
Sardinia can almost seem like a country, or even a continent unto itself. The island covers 9,300 square miles; and with a 125-mile separation from the mainland, when touring its diverse terrain, listening to its own dialect and taking in the regional flavors, it would be easy to forget that you are indeed in Italy.
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Raul Diaz on best food recipes per grape variety: Part 1 – Pinot Noir
As a trained sommelier Raul Diaz has many years of experience working directly with customers and chefs to draw up a mental list of which sort of dishes go with each major grape variety. A list he has now turned into a book, Wine & Recipes by Raul Diaz, that is aimed both at the drinks trade and consumers. Here in the fi
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Chasing Crush: Hollywood's Next Great Wine Country Film?
Jersey Boys producer and Sonoma vintner Kevin Kinsella is making a Napa-set drama with winemaker Thomas Rivers Brown and Hollywood veterans Gene Kirkwood and George Gallo. And Brown made a real-life canned Cabernet to pair with it
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France's champagne capital wants to experiment with the legal sale of cannabis
The mayor of Reims tells RFI why he would like France's champagne capital to experiment with the legal sale of cannabis in the country.
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This new tool could identify ‘smoke taint’ in wine early in the process
A South Australian researcher is combining materials science, engineering and applied photonics to help winemakers detect smoke taint in grapes and wine.
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Provence and Burgundy only French regions to increase exports during 2020
Provence has outstripped every other French region in terms of exports last year.
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Burgundy wines buck general downward trend
Despite the ongoing crisis, Burgundy wines showed sustained export volume growth in 2020, with consignments in excess of 90 million equivalent 75 cl bottles, up 0.8% on 2019.
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Irish Officials Uncover $360,000 of Counterfeit Wine in the City of Cork
The bust was about 50 times bigger than Irish custom's average seizure from last year.
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The secret to a successful wine pairing? Fats have an affinity for tannins
Tannins interact at molecular level with fat globules in cheeses, meats, and oils.
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Rainfall goes to waste as Australia lets drier climate costs rise
One of the nation's leading agricultural academics says drenching rainfall along Australia's eastern coastal fringe will be shamefully wasted as water policy paralysis widely ignores our increasingly drought-risky future.
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Provence rosés post best export performance in 2020
“We’ve fared pretty well”, Brice Eymard, managing director of the Provence wine marketing board CIVP, told AFP on 15 March. “Sales of wines marketed by the supply side dropped by 7% in 2020 compared to 2019, at 1 million hectolitres, but we continue to gain ground in export markets (+6% to 430,000 hl) while all the other regions fell, except
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Work begins on ground-breaking Cités du Vins projects
Work is now underway to lay the foundations of three entirely new cultural and tourism-related wine centres across Burgundy with the site in Beaune now officially underway.
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