Highlights: Champagne Laurent Perrier 2018
Really impressed with this, the latest vintage release from Laurent-Perrier. Champagne Laurent Perrier Brut Millésime 2018 France12% alcohol. 100% Grand
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Winter Vine Burial in China, a seminar from Professor Huiqin Ma, China Agricultural University
Huiquin Ma presented a seminar on vine burial to the judges at the Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards in Macau.
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The wines of Courelas da Torre, Alentejo, Portugal
Website: https://www.courelasdatorre.com/en/ This is the first time I’ve tried the wines from this Alentejo producer, based in Redondo, making organic
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Restaurants: Lunch at the Wigmore, a high-end gastropub that’s part of the Langham Hotel, London
Website: https://www.the-wigmore.co.uk/ At the end of Regent Street and the bottom of Portland Place, across the road from All Souls
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Video: Champagne Drappier launch Éclose, a new prestige cuvée
Jamie Goode visits Urville in the Aube – the southern outpost of Champagne – where one of the most important
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I visit Champagne Drappier who have just released a remarkable new prestige cuvée aged in wooden eggs called Éclose
Things take time in Champagne. And if you want to launch a new prestige cuvée, then things can take a
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Highlights: Ferdinando Principiano Langhe Nebbiolo 2023 Piemonte, Italy
This is an impressive Langhe Nebbiolo that’s worth looking out for. Ferdinando Principiano Langhe Nebbiolo 2023 Piemonte, Italy13% alcohol. This
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Henschke’s 2022 single-vineyard wines, including a stunning Hill of Grace
Website: https://www.henschke.com.au/ As with last year, I got to try the single vineyard releases from Henschke with Stephen and Prue
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Some insights from ProWein’s Agora stage: how innovators are winning the market
While I was at ProWein in Dusseldorf last week, I caught a session at the Agora stage, with three interesting
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Ca’Marcanda: 30 years of Gaja’s Tuscan outpost
Bolgheri’s natural beauty drew the 57 year old Angelo Gaja to spread his winemaking wings out from Piemonte in 1996,
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