Wine News
Brad Pitt releases £290 rosé champagne, Fleur de Miraval.
Keen to elevate the image of rosé Champagne, Brad Pitt has launched Fleur de Miraval, a £290 rosé Champagne made in collaboration with...
Albret El Balcón Crianza scores 92 points at International Wine & Spirits Competition.
Albret El Balcón Crianza 2016 gets 92 points from the demanding International Wine & Spirits Competition contest. IWSC is one of the oldest...
DO Cava focuses on origin and ensuring compliance with existing quality standards for the harvest within the context of the pandemic.
This harvest important measures have once again been implemented to further verify compliance with regulations and ensure the quality of DO...
The Institute of Masters of Wine has announced 16 new Masters of Wine.
The Institute of Masters of Wine has announced 16 new Masters of Wine, taking the total number of MWs in the world today to over 400.
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 ...
La Lune 2013
I knew the day would come when I would be able to put pen to paper to write about one of Mark Angeli’s wines!
I met Mark in the winter of...
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...
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...
Castell d´Encus Quest 2012
Castell d'Encús is a unique and very “personal” business. It emerged from Raül Bobet’s in-depth study of climate change representing one of...
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
Fine wine in Ecuador
Until very recently, Wine and Ecuador were, to my mind, two fine yet mutually exclusive concepts. Like most people, I associate wine with French, Italian and Spanish landscapes, where the seasons are identified by their temperature, and not by the presence or absence of rain,...
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,...
One hundred years of solera
Roqueta Origen: eight centuries amid the vines
The Roqueta family’s history has been entwined with wine and the vine since the 12th century. Such a long history grants them licence to look to the past as their birthright, revive forgotten grape varieties such as the radiant white picapoll and reprise age-old methods of...
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...
The Winery
From ‘Château de Selle’ to ‘By Ott’
There have been four generations to date. Four generations that have worked long and hard to achieve the results they were striving for. Four generations that have made their wineries a reference, not only in Provence, but around the world. Four generations that have dedicated...
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...
Tastings sessions
Termanthia Vertical
A few of us were lucky enough to participate in an unprecedented vertical tasting of Termanthia organised by the director of Bodegas Numanthia, Lucas Löwi. Termanthia is the jewel in the crown of Numanthia, which gets its name from the city of Numancia, famous for its heroic...
Gramona vertical
There are occasions when you feel fortunate not only to taste great wines, but because you have the impression of experiencing a defining ‘before and after’ moment in the way you understand certain wines. This moment occurred during an unforgettable tasting organized by...
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...