Clik here to view.
The World’s Best Wine Lists winners’ stories: The Yeatman
In the latest in a series of articles going behind the scenes at some of the winners of the 2024 World’s Best Wine Lists Awards, Elisabete Fernandes, Wine Director at The Yeatman, explains how she and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why Bastard? Wherefore beautiful?
It’s as much a myth as it is a vineyard, this place they call Bastard Hill. You’d never find it unless you really went looking for it. Vines are rarely reached through towering tree ferns or heralded...
View ArticleClik here to view.
At the table: Porchetta
Porchetta is one of an ever-increasing number of regional dishes that has gone, if not quite global, then certainly globe-trotting, a phenomenon to which Italian cuisine seems particularly inclined....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fino and Manzanilla Sherry: Diversity and excitement
David Williams introduces a high-scoring, fascinatingly instructive tasting of Fino and Manzanilla Sherry shared with Simon Field MW and Andrew Jefford. Accounts of Sherry’s recent fortunes almost...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wine in history: Spiked!
From Roman residues to cocaine tonics, Stuart Walton explores the long strange history of the practice of adding other psychoactive substances to alcohol. In 1996, archaeological excavations at a site...
View ArticleClik here to view.
OIV adopts new old-vine resolution
The attempt to safeguard and raise the profile of the world’s stocks of old vines has been one of the most significant developments in the world of fine wine in recent years, with a number of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
T-OINOS Winery: Redefining the limits of fine Greek winemaking
Perched on the rugged, windswept slopes of Tinos in the Cyclades, T-OINOS Winery has redefined the limits of fine Greek winemaking. Established in 1999 by Alexandros Avatangelos and Gérard Margeon,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to fill a 4,000-hectare hole: The future of Washington State wine
Wine drinkers of Washington State are well familiar with the quality of the state’s wines: An estimated one of every four bottles consumed in the state is local. But as the state’s wine industry...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Loire and its dazzling geology
Jonathan Maltman explores the wonderfully varied geology along the length of the River Loire. Golden eagles and vultures soar overhead, while roaming down in the forests are wild boar, wolves, and, by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
2015 Armand de Brignac Blanc de Noirs
The tasting of Armand de Brignac that took place in London in the fall was arranged in order to showcase, for the first time, a Vintage Champagne from the king of Champagne bling. Until this launch,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cyril Brun at Ferrari Trento: A Champagne star sparkles in Italy
It was the scoop of the century for Ferrari Trento, and it caused a stir in the sparkling-wine world: Cyril Brun, a doyen of Champagne, previously chef de cave at Charles Heidsieck, with a track...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Etna Bianco: The volcanic charm of Carricante
Mount Etna has established a reputation for fine reds with the most elegant examples of Nerello Mascalese coming from the north side of the volcano, so I was surprised on a recent visit to find a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Is the clash between modernism and tradition over?
Benjamin Lewin MW attempts to officiate a long-running dispute between tradition and modernism in wine. Would it be too outrageous to argue that ever since the Enlightenment of the 18th century,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quinta do Noval 50 Year Old Tawny Port: A new and different dimension
Quinta do Noval has become the latest Port shipper to enter the fortified wine’s newest/oldest age-dated Tawny Port category, with the launch of Quinta do Noval 50 Year Old Tawny Port. Launched in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Laurent-Perrier Héritage: A petit Siècle
Simon Field MW joins longstanding chef de cave Michel Fauconnet at the launch of Laurent-Perrier Héritage. Michel Fauconnet is one of Champagne’s more enigmatic characters. A fluent English speaker...
View ArticleClik here to view.
South America’s magnificent seven: Aurelio Montes
When Aurelio Montes cofounded his eponymous winery in 1987, Chile was a different world from what it is today. Only just returning to a free market, the country was beginning to overcome the financial...
View ArticleClik here to view.
South America’s magnificent seven: Roberto de la Mota
There are a handful of impressive father-and-son winemaking teams in Argentina, but perhaps the most influential of all is that of Roberto de la Mota and his father, the late Raul de la Mota, one of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Always adventurous, constantly curious…Rioja’s Ramón Bilbao celebrates a century
When Don Ramón Bilbao established his eponymous Rioja winery in 1924, he had one aim in mind: to share the wines of his homeland with the world. This philosophy of exploration, adventure and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
South America’s magnificent seven: Álvaro Espinoza
Álvaro Espinoza is perhaps best known as one of the key players in Chile’s fascinating story with Carmenère. It was during the serendipitous visit of French ampelographer Jean-Michel Boursiquot to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
South America’s magnificent seven: Francisco Carrau
Francisco Carrau comes from a long line of winemakers: He was born into a family that had been making wine in Catalonia since 1752. His grandfather emigrated to Uruguay in 1929 and built the family...
View Article