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Pierre and Hélène Seillan: Two generations at Vérité
Anthony Rose talks to the father-and-daughter team overseeing Vérité, the Jackson family’s Petrus-inspired project in Sonoma. The Judgment of Paris tasting in 1976 was not just a wake-up call for an...
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2019 Brunello di Montalcino: Magnificent
Andrew Jefford is joined by Bruno Besa and Michael Palij MW for a hugely successful and high-scoring tasting of 2019 Brunello di Monalcino, a vintage that came as a very welcome relief in southern...
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Château Tour des Termes: A new chapter
Raymond Blake profiles Château Tour des Termes, the rising St-Estèphe estate now owned by the O’Connor family. At the risk of harping on at tedious length about the strong wine connections between...
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Above and beyond postmodernist wine
As wine leaves behind its modernist and postmodernist eras, a survivor from Colares reminds Hugh Johnson of what wine does best. I am not the only critic who has claimed for wine (or at least certain...
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Clos des Lambrays 1923–2023: Lengths and breadths of time and all-time highs
An awe-inspiring, century-spanning tasting at the domaine made a compelling case for Clos des Lambrays as one of the five top grands crus of the Côte d’Or. Neil Beckett reports. Burgundy is history....
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World’s Best Wine Lists 2024: Regional Category Awards winners announced
The World of Fine Wine is happy to announce the winners of the World’s Best Wine Lists 2024 Regional Category Awards. The winners were chosen as the best establishments in 19 categories in each of six...
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Pol Roger Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill: Easily satisfied with the best
Simon Field MW reports from a thrilling tasting of all 21 released vintages of Pol Roger Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill. Champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced, the...
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Poggio di Sotto: The quest for perfection
Robin Lee visits Montalcino and finds Poggio di Sotto in an important moment of transition. In its essence, Montalcino is one of the easiest appellations to understand. The wines produced here are...
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At the table: Panna cotta
Much as I like the description of panna cotta as mere blancmange with a fancy accent, it really isn’t true. Panna cotta is made from sweetened cream set to perfect wobbliness with gelatine....
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Wine and multiple identities
A singular, shining identity. The expression of a particular, unique place on the Earth’s surface—call it terroir—blessed by geological and microclimatic felicities, hallowed by a name rich in...
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A fascinating and original book well worth reading from beginning to end
Andrew Jefford reviews Italy in a Wine Glass: The Taste of History by Marc Millon. Here’s a rarity: a wine book that rewards reading from beginning to end. I gulped it down, and I finished wanting...
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Dionysian portals: Sensing wine in Rothko
“I am interested only in expressing basic human emotions”—Mark Rothko. The enigmatic allure of Mark Rothko’s glowing color fields has captivated audiences ever since their appearance in the early...
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Gaja, Graci, Etna … Idda
On June 22, 15 of London’s finest sommeliers were lucky enough to be the first wine professionals to be invited by Giovanni Gaja for a tour of the vineyards and the brand-new, state-of-the-art winery...
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Hierarchies
Consider two extreme systems for describing wine: One is to assume that origin is important and to assign every plot of land a position in a hierarchy. Burgundy is the paradigm, of course. An...
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Shipwreck wines
Shipwreck wines discovered after a long sojourn beneath the sea have inspired a trend in underwater aging, says Stuart Walton. The recent discovery by a group of Polish divers of a sunken trading...
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The Hefners: Everything coming together
Margaret Rand meets Robert and MeiLi Hefner on their Ramiiisol estate, where they are pursuing a Jeffersonian dream of natural wine through determination, eclectic knowledge, and unconventional...
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Atmosphere Hotels & Resorts: A toast to life’s finest moments
The scenic private isles of VARU by Atmosphere and Atmosphere Kanifushi are everything that tropical dreams are made of. Healing, year-round sunshine, balmy aquamarine lagoons teeming with glittering...
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Vignerons’ stories: Katharina Prüm
In the first of a series of extended interviews with leading wine growers marking 20 years of The World of Fine Wine, Katharina Prüm of JJ Prüm in the Mosel tells David Williams about her experiences...
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Vignerons’ stories: Eben Sadie
In the second of a series of extended interviews with leading wine growers marking 20 years of The World of Fine Wine, South Africa’s Eben Sadie tells David Williams about his past two decades of wine...
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Vignerons’ stories: Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon
In the third of a series of extended interviews with leading wine growers marking 20 years of The World of Fine Wine, Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon of Champagne Louis Roederer tells David Williams about the...
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