Smooth Tasting 2020 Bordeaux Releases

After aging, most 2020 Bordeaux wines were released last year. After sampling hundreds of wines throughout Médoc, Graves, Saint-Émilion, Pomerol, Fronsac, Entre-deux-Mers, Bourg and Blaye in the Borde...

Twenty One Brilliant New Year Holiday Wines

The below reviews (some published previously) target a mixed bag of wines I tasted during this past year and recommend for drinking during any grand festive occasion, as well as for ringing the new ye...

Ten December Wines From France, Italy And Portugal

Château du Moulin-À-Vent, Beaujolais, France Tom Mullen The State of the World Wine and Vine Sector Report published in April of 2022 highlights that in 2021 the combined surface area of vineyards in ...

Seven Young Sommeliers Cross Borders To Break Boundaries

Sommeliers and Jane Anson at Château La Lagune, Bordeaux, France Jane Anson After departing as a writer for Decanter Magazine to start her own business as a wine educator and media specialist—Bordeaux...

How Bees And Bats Help Bordeaux Create High Quality Sustainable Wines

Bees and Bats Help Produce Sustainable Wines in the Vineyards of Bordeaux CIVB Did you know that bats eat between 500 and 1500 insects per night, and that bees are responsible for 80% of the pollinati...

Vintage 2021 Part 1 – Bordeaux Left Bank

Vineyards in Médoc, Bordeaux, France getty During a visit to the village of Jonzac this spring, a young Bordeaux woman explained to me how to detect overall quality of the past wine vintage. ‘You neve...

New Eastbound Westbound Wine Documentary Highlights French And American Connections

Graphics of Bordeaux city in France and Golden Gate Bridge in California, U.S. E-Studi’OZ & PMG Productions In the year 1784—seventeen years before he became president of the United States—T...