Wine News
Château Palmer 2019 released at 33% lower than 2018
Margaux third growth Château Palmer released its 2019 vintage today at €161 per bottle ex-negociant, 33% less than its 2018 opening release...
Historic production measures for the Cava D.O.
Agreement in the plenary session of the Cava D.O. to establish measures for the Harvest Campaign. Measures that restrict production to...
Wayne Rooney spends £150K on wine room.
English football star Wayne Rooney is reported to be spending around £150,000 on a walk-in wine room, complete with bar, at his new £20...
Sarah Jessica Parker launches Southern French Rosé
Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker has added a southern French rosé to her Invivo X wine range, made in collaboration with New...
Blog
Local Wine and Cheese Pairings from Across the USA
Wine and cheese pair like salt and pepper, peas in a pod…the list of duos could go on and on.
Garnacha in the USA
Garnacha didn’t stray from its birthplace in Aragon for a long time. The first known mention of Garnacha dates back to 1513, and it is...
Wine Rivals: Rosé vs Riesling in the Inadvertent #Summer of Turf War
Two wines – one a style, one a grape – have been inadvertently vying to fill glasses in the last decade. I write inadvertently because...
Wine selection from ...
Keller Riesling Kirchspiel Grosses Gewachs 2009
When we talk about the world’s great white wines... naturally, Germany and its Rieslings cannot be excluded. This particular example comes...
La Prats 2014, from Oriol Artigas
A multi-varietal wine from a single vineyard: Subirat Parent, Garnacha Blanca, Moscatel, Beier, Sant Jaume, Macabeo, Pansa Blanca, Sumoll...
Turó d´en Mota 2003
Xarel·lo monovarietal from a vineyard called Turó d’en Mota, 0.97 ha planted in 1940, pruned “en vaso” and grown biodynamically. The...
Wine People
Ruth Sierra de la Gala: "It’s easy to make basic rosé, but much more difficult to make high quality rosé"
Andrew Black: Your rosé, “Sinfo”, is served in virtually every bar in Valladolid. Have you always specialisedin rosé wines?
RS: Yes,...
Álvaro Palacios: "Great classic wine is made not by man, but by the vine"
It is perhaps not surprising that a man born above a winery in Rioja should have dedicated his life to wine. Born into a traditional...
Wine Reviews
La Comtesse 2012
The history of this winery on the Pazo Barrantes estate in the Salnés Valley in Galicia began in the early 90’s when the Creixell family...
La Grande Dame 2004
Famous around the world for over two centuries, Veuve Clicquot is one of the great champagne houses whose exciting history has made it one...
Textures de Pedra 2011
With its long wine-growing tradition spanning 20 generations, Raventós i Blanc is one of the reference wineries in Catalonia. Back in the...
Castillo de Ygay 2007
One of the wine companies that automatically springs to mind whenever Rioja is mentioned, is Marqués de Murrieta and, as usually happens...
Torre Muga 2011
This is another great winery from the Riojan public imagination which has managed to stay up-to-date, successfully combining its past with...
The Analysis by Pedro Ballesteros MW
Andorra, land of wine
Few people would associate Andorra with wine. And yet, it would seem more than natural that the Principality would produce wine, if you consider some of the conditions for quality wine production.
First of all there is the latitude. Andorra is famous for its snow and cold,...
The Amalfi Coast, the paradox of the terroir
The Amalfi Coast is a World Heritage Site. It is an outstanding example of a Mediterranean landscape, one of exceptional cultural and natural value and a rare example of a place where the human hand has embellished nature. The Amalfi Coast is also a landscape fit for great...
One hundred years of solera
Osborne. An 18th century Englishman and a 20th century bull.
Founded in 1772, this sherry company has been around for almost 250 years and is still owned and run by the same family today. Its undisputed symbol, the Osborne bull, has been reprieved and has just celebrated its 60th birthday with the same fighting fettle and fine presence...
Rioja Alta: four oaks and a river.
In 1892, exactly two years after the founding of the Rioja Alta winery, the image of four oak trees by the River Oja was adopted by this great Riojan winery, which celebrates its 125 year anniversary this year. The heirs of the five founding families have successfully turned the...
The Winery
Jacquesson, two brothers in the search of excellence.
CHAMPAGNE IS, FIRST AND FOREMOST, A FINE WINE WITH MAGICAL BUBBLES AND AROMAS.
Jean-Hervé and Laurent, Laurent and Jean-Hervé. This remarkable duo directs Jacquesson Champagne today. With them in the driving seat, the Champagne House has made a 360° turn in its philosophy and...
Codorniu: Five centuries of history
Codorníu’s history goes back to the 16th century, to the year 1551 to be precise. A document from that time states that Jaume Codorníu, owner of vineyards, possessed presses, barrels and vats for the purposes of winemaking. That year marked the start of the history of the...
Tastings sessions
Vertical tasting of Rioja Alta's Gran Reserva 904 (1982-2005)
Rioja living memory
It is difficult not to think of “Rioja” when the words “wine” and “Spain” are mentioned together. This is because this wine region has long been the reference for quality winemaking in Spain. Many consumers around the world have come to know Spanish wines...
Vertical tasting of Finca Garbet (2001-2009)
This land was born over two thousand years ago with, and for, its vines, olives and wheat. Now, with work such as that being carried out by Perelada and its chief winemaker, Delfí Sanahuja, the history of the Mediterranean is being revived and can be tasted in a bottle.
The...
Wine Features
The best Single Estates of the Single Estate Wines
This is not a play on words, despite seeming so. The use of the expression “pago” in the oenological field encompasses so many meanings that it becomes difficult to convey any sort of clarity to the end consumer. Singling out the best, we attempt to shed some light on these...
Federico Oldenburg Oenopathy´s
Portugal is on the move.
Wonderful secrets lie hidden away in the wine regions of Portugal: native grape varieties rescued from oblivion, prodigious vineyards and upcoming regions, which are well worth exploring. This article runs through the most interesting regions and wines on the revived...
Monastrell, wines from the sun
For a few years now, the native red variety of the Levante has been seeking recognition for its ability to produce top quality wines, along with its rosé, sweet and sparkling wines. This grape variety has also colonized vineyards in Provence, Australia and California, where it...