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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...
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 ...
Meet The Man Disrupting The Italian Wine Industry
CEO of Italian winery “Pasqua Vigneti e Cantine”, Riccardo Pasqua (L) and his father, President of … [+] Pasqua Vigneti e Cantine, Umberto Pasqua speak during the presentation of the...
Rosés For Bastille Day
Because you need an official holiday to drink pink! Costumed Parisians celebrate Bastille Day. (Photo by Genevieve Naylor/Corbis via Getty Images) Corbis via Getty Images Officially known as Fête Nati...
Vintage 2021 Part 3 – Bordeaux Entre-Deux-Mers And Others
Vineyards and Milky Way, Bordeaux, France getty This is the third part of a three part article regarding the 2021 wine vintage in Bordeaux, as well as in other regions of France. The first part—descri...
Vintage 2021 Part 2 – Bordeaux Right Bank
Grapes and sunlight LAURINE GASSIAN (FACEBOOK: LAURINE DLS) This is the second part of a three part article regarding the 2021 vintage in Bordeaux, as well as in other regions of France. The first par...
Loire Valley Producers Respond To Consumer Demand For Organic Wine
Domaine Chainier’s Clos de Nouys organic vineyard in the heart of Vouvray Michelle Williams It is a late October morning in Vouvray. The blanket of fog from the Loire River is receding, revealin...
The Unicorn You Can’t Catch
Collectors, land values and climate conditions conspire to keep this holy grail of wine out of reach for many. VIGNOBLE ET VILLAGE D’ALOXE CORTON, COTE-D’OR, FRANCE. (Photo by Claudius THI...
Chateau Angelus Drops Out Of Bordeaux’s Saint-Emilion Wine Classification Process
Château Angélus, one of four top ranked wines in the Saint-Émilion region of Bordeaux in southwest France, last week announced it had decided to drop out of the 2022 wine châteaux classification proce...