Red wine

The Montezemolo family is one of Piedmont’s oldest noble families.  Although they deserve enormous credit for their wines, their name is also closely associated with the famous "Scuderia Ferrari". The work in both the vineyards and the winery is meticulous, resulting in...
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Founded in 1879, the premises of the Compañía Vinícola del Norte de España (known as CVNE or Cune), is made up of a cluster of buildings, mainly from the 19th Century, arranged around a patio surrounded by facilities for winemaking, ageing and bottling.   The Company is...
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D’Arenberg is one of Australia’s oldest and most well known wineries. It was founded in 1912 by Joseph Osborn, when he bought the “Milton Vineyards”, already well-established in the region to the north of the Gloucester and Bellevue townships, now known as McLaren Vale (South...
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Bodegas Bilbaínas is part of Spanish wine history and an institution from the 'la estación’ neighbourhood of Haro. Founded in 1859 by a French wine company, it passed into the hands of a group of friends "from Bilbao" in 1901, hence its name today. It is considered one of the...
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Serge Hochar produces one of the best wines in the world…not in Bordeaux, not in Napa or the Moselle.. but in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon.  Its name is Château Musar, it was founded in 1930, and it is considered to be Lebanon’s best winery.  It has 180 hectares of vineyards...
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Finca Allende is the culmination of a dream which its alma mater, Miguel Angel de Gregorio, set in motion the early 90's in Briones, a town in the north of the Rioja Alta, where the vineyards grow on prominently clayey soils.  Produced using ultra-modern methods which include...
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This is an interesting Catalan wine business, created in 1998 by six Swiss friends with links to the wine world.  It is based in the pretty village of Calonge, just five kilometres from the coast, at the foot of the Gavarres natural park, its Mediterranean character permeating a...
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This lovely wine business, created under the aegis of Rene Barbier, Fernando Zamora (Clos Mogador) and Christopher Cannan (Clos Figuera), has put the Garnacha of Montsant in the who's-who of essential grapes varieties for inclusion in the wine cellars of all those who love...
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Dominio de Atauta was founded in 1999 in Soria, on the eastern boundary of the Ribera del Duero, at a time when hardly anyone believed in its vineyards. Herein resided the success of the bodega which was able to spot the magic of an area sitting at about a thousand metres...
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