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Wine in history: Death by wine
From Alexander the Great to The Princess Bride, Stuart Walton exhumes some of the many historical and cultural figures who have suffered death by wine. Nobody knows for sure what caused the death in...
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Duval-Leroy Femme de Champagne: Complete poise, with no frills or fancy
Anne Krebiehl MW reviews Duval-Leroy 2008 Femme de Champagne and Femme de Champagne Rosé de Saignée. Le Champagne, ce n’est pas un luxe, c’est un plaisir.” As opening statements go, this was perfect:...
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La Collina dei Ciliegi Prea Bianco Verona IGT 2021: The Cherry Orchard
Robin Lee is enchanted by La Collina dei Ciliegi Prea Bianco Verona IGT 2021. It is always pure joy to travel to the hinterlands of the Veneto, but this day was particularly special because it was the...
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Montagne de Reims Chardonnay: Compelling
Essi Avellan MW introduces a tasting of Montagne de Reims Chardonnay shared with fellow revelers Simon Field MW and Anthony Rose, that shed new light on the distinctive blanc de blancs from the north...
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Liver cirrhosis: The silent killer
Liver cirrhosis due to alcohol is a rare disease in general populations, affecting three people in a thousand. Liver-disease mortality rates in the UK, however, have increased 400% since 1970, and in...
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Alfred Gratien 160th anniversary cuvées: Generation and regeneration
Alfred Gratien is rare in many ways and unique in one. Among all the hundreds of houses and thousands of growers in Champagne, it is among the few of the former that genuinely have the feel of the...
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Pinot Grigio delle Venezie: Your ultimate wonderful Italian experience
The appellation “delle Venezie” that features on any bottle of Pinot Grigio delle Venezie DOC, is not just a few words written on the label to merely define the place of origin. This extends to the...
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Sooner or later: Ripe for rethinking
Leisurely ripening is associated not just with “cool-climate” viticulture but with enhanced vinous quality generally. Climatic warming is associated with earlier. It might seem obvious, then, that...
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Alejandro Bulgheroni: When I’m 64
Alejandro Bulgheroni was late to wine but now has one of the world’s biggest collections of wineries. Until the age of 64, Alejandro Bulgheroni had been more or less oblivious to the potential of the...
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World’s Best Wine Lists winners’ stories: Ozen Reserve Bolifushi
In the first of a series of articles going behind the scenes at some of the winners of the 2024 World’s Best Wine Lists Awards, Nicolas Laguette, Director of Wines at Atmosphere Core, explains how he...
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Kartli: A separate vinous kingdom
The Kakheti region has so far attracted most attention to modern Georgian wine, but could the distinctive wines made in around the capital Tbilisi in Kartli be the country’s next big thing? Visitors...
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Beaujolais’s “Gang of Four”
Natasha Hughes MW on the influential group of plucky Beaujolais vignerons who held out against industrialization and came to shape the style and winemaking philosophy of the region’s best modern...
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Is there a future for fortified wine?
With sales in freefall, fortified wine producers are in the middle of a prolonged existential crisis, says Simon J Woolf. Could the panelists at Austria’s Arlberg Weinberg Symposium offer some some...
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At the table: Ceviche
Just as last month I couldn’t legitimately assign the Greek stew kydonato to a single wine region, so, this month, my subject is another free-ranging dish—one with an even greater reach: ceviche. Raw...
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The 20th anniversary of the Berlin Tasting
Elin McCoy reports from three days of vertical tastings with Eduardo Chadwick in Chile, discerning the identities and following the progress of Errázuriz Don Maximiano Founder’s Reserve, Seña, and...
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Warren Winiarski (1928–2024): A California classicist
Warren Winiarski loved Syrah. The first time we met over dinner, I poured him a glass of Kusuda Syrah from New Zealand. It was a mouthwatering wine from a cooler vintage full of dried herbs and...
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2016 Gosset Grand Millésime: Enlightened pragmatism
Odilon de Varine is a great thinker; his approach at Gosset has sometimes verged on the contrarian, sometimes stayed close to the mainstream, but its collective fruits make for an inspiring series of...
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From Atlantic trade winds to an Indian Ocean wine
Bodegas Viñátigo Masterclasses return to pair naturally unique wines from the Canary Islands with fine gastronomy in The Maldives. For wine enthusiasts and those with a taste for refined indulgence,...
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Wine as worlding: Bhutan’s path into fine wine
As the Bhutan Wine Company releases its first wines—the first ever made in the Himalayan country—Chris Howard reports on how a remarkable project came to be, and what it promises for the future of...
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Global Cabernet Franc: A study in ripeness
A grape variety that has become increasingly popular with growers and drinkers for its ability to retain freshness in a warming world, Cabernet Franc is proving itself capable of great stylistic...
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