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Adjusting aesthetic horizons from the champaigns of Jerez
Andrew Jefford tastes 2020 Annius Atlántida Vino de la Tierra de Cádiz. The Latin word campus (a field, a plain) gave us the late Latin campania, the Old French champagne, and the late Middle English...
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Gosset 21 Ans de Cave a Minima Extra Brut: All the way up to max
Gosset 21 Ans de Cave a Minima Extra Brut is the oldest and rarest wine in the house’s Compte d’Âge range so far. Neil Beckett reports. Some age gracefully. Among them, happily, is Gosset Champagne,...
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Randall Grahm: From Rhône Ranger to terroir hunter
Randall Grahm tells Anthony Rose about his quest to make a true wine of place at Popelouchum estate in San Benito County and his ambitious Language of Yes project with Gallo. “I expect that on my...
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What availability?
I cannot understand at all why it is not possible, in the UK or elsewhere, to purchase some of the planet’s most exciting sparkling wines, even though these emerging stars have proved their quality...
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Liebherr launches new Vinidor wine fridges
Consisting of 11 new models, inclusive of two SmartSteel door models, six GlassBlack door models, and three BlackSteel door models, the new Vinidor wine fridges combine form and functionality for...
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A perfect guide to understanding and appreciating wine
Brian St Pierre reviews Wine Confident: There’s No Wrong Way to Enjoy Wine by Kelli A White. First, some news: Many social media platforms are now allowing wine advertising and marketing. If you’re...
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2023 Burgundy: Abundant variability
2023 Burgundy was a bounteous but heterogenous vintage in which the white wines outshone the reds after a growing season that was marked by periods of intense heat, says Sarah Marsh MW. 2023 Burgundy:...
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2023 Burgundy: A guide to the villages and vineyards
In the second part of her coverage of the 2023 Burgundy vintage, The World of Fine Wine’s Burgundy critic Sarah Marsh MW delivers her detailed assessment of the region’s villages, crus, and...
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2023 Burgundy: Chablis with a sunny disposition
2023 Burgundy: Abundant variability 2023 Burgundy: A guide to the villages and vineyards There are positive aspects to the 2023 vintage in Chablis, so let’s start there. Pleasant, fruity, and...
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2023 Burgundy: Chablis tasting notes
2023 Chablis, domaine by domaine 2023 Burgundy: Abundant variability 2023 Burgundy: A guide to the villages and vineyards 2023 Burgundy: Chablis with a sunny disposition DOMAINE BESSIN-TREMBLAY (LA...
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At the table: Civet de sanglier
Many regions across France and the rest of Europe are proud of their wild boar stews, but nowhere more so than Corsica, where civet de sanglier, or stufatu di cignale in Corsican, is practically a...
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Gérard Bertrand: Tales from the Temple
Amid the pyramids at his Clos du Temple winery, home of one of the world’s most expensive rosés, Margaret Rand discusses family, rugby, and the pursuit of perfection with Gérard Betrand. Well, I...
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The charming and the sinister
Charming wines are all very well, but sometimes Tim James craves something altogether darker. Hugh Johnson wonderfully described Mosel Riesling as “haunting with the qualities of remembered scents or...
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2004 Champagne at 20: Delicacy and refinement
Finesse and purity take precedence over power, intensity, and structure in the wines of the 2004 Champagne vintage, says Essi Avellan MW, after a tasting shared with Simon Field MW and Joanna Simon....
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Thoroughbred workhorses (Part I)
Until the last decade of the 20th century, Grüner Veltliner’s reputation stood in inverse relationship to its ubiquity. When Thudichum and Dupré in 1872 characterized it as “one of the most fertile...
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A rewarding series of literary and visual portraits set in the annual cycle...
Jon Wyand reviews A Year in the Vineyard by Sophie Menin and Bob Chaplin. When you pick up A Year in the Vineyard, you will, no doubt, open it and allow the pages to fall left to right for a first...
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Wine in history: Songs of wine and wine of songs
From the art of the drinking song to songs about drink, Stuart Walton celebrates the ways in which “wine finds its musical enunciation.” The happiness that wine creates, once it has reached a critical...
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2023 Burgundy tasting notes: Côte de Nuit—Marsannay and Fixin
MARSANNAY CHÂTEAU DE MARSANNAY Sylvain Pabiot, the technical director here, highlighted the importance of leaf- and fruit-thinning in July. He was reluctant to plow in the grasses, which were growing...
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2023 Burgundy tasting notes: Côte de Nuits—Gevrey-Chambertin
GEVREY-CHAMBERTIN DOMAINE LES ASTRELLES This 12ha (30-acre) estate in Gevrey has 7.5ha (18.5 acres) in the Hautes-Côtes de Nuits. With the négociant wines, Astrelles produces from a total of 18ha (44...
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2023 Burgundy tasting notes: Côte de Nuits—Morey-St-Denis
MOREY-ST-DENIS DOMAINE ARLAUD In 2023 there were two green-harvests here, which brought yields down to 48hl/ha for village wines and 37hl/ha for grands crus. Organic certified and biodynamic since...
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