Wine Features

Having fallen in love with the Verdejo grape variety, Didier Belondrade, a director at Air France, flew down to Valladolid, bought some vines and opened a model winery in the 90s. His Belondrade y Lurton is THE fine wine from Rueda, representing excellence in the region. Since...
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The “Cavas de Paraje Calificado” are unique cavas that add value. It’s not about another level of quality, but about cavas from specific vineyard plots and about illustrating that winemaking, including cava winemaking, begins in the vineyard. That is why they wanted to combine...
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Sparkling wines enjoy pride of place at social gatherings and special meals, not just because of their traditional association with glamour and sophistication, but because of something that most sommeliers and wine experts agree on, their great versatility. But, if we are...
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Taking advantage of a few days’ holiday in the French Basque Country, one of the things that the family suggested we do, given my links with the wine world, was to take a trip up to Bordeaux, one of the world’s "wine capitals". Who doesn’t know about the wines from Bordeaux? I...
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In 1816, Madame Clicquot, a visionary if ever there was one, created a piece of equipment that would revolutionize sparkling wine making history: the riddling rack.
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At this event in India, the onion was the ingredient of the year, showing surprising harmony with KRUG champagnes. For Krug, individuality is the art of understanding that each plot, like each wine produced from it, is a unique ingredient in and of itself. Every year, in a...
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For the third consecutive year, Ruinart, the oldest champagne house in the world (founded in 1729), held the RUINART CHALLENGE SPAIN in Madrid. The purpose of this competition is to spread the culture of champagne.  It also aims to support sommeliers and generally deepen their...
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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...
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In the 18th Century, the extraordinary fame of the wines from Malaga crossed borders as they were the favourite wines of the sweet-toothed Tsarina.  The first winery to bottle this type of wine was created over 150 years ago by the López brothers, dubbed "the Lions" for their...
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