THE STORY OF MADEIRA
Enthrallingly versatile, everlasting and bomb proof – Madeira is the perfect sup for our uncertain times says Lisse Garnett 400
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Author: Lisse Garnett
Icelandic pharma-titan, Robert Wessman of Maison Wessman in Bergerac and his Wine Director, Lise Sadirac, fight for a new Issigeac micro-appellation with musical backing from Nora Jones
Wessman seeks vinous validation for Issigeac and Conne-de-Labarde, which lie on a clearly defined limestone plateau and merit their own micro-appellation according to Vineyard Director Lise Sadirac, who is working hard to convince the INAO. The layered limestone plateau of D’Issigeac took 1.5 million years to form. Vines take a decade to root in the fissured rock, where soil is a mere 20cm deep. Bergerac has 13 appellations and no distinct identity. Fine wine would benefit from a perceptible point of difference and a dose of celebrity stardust.
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MAULE: SMALL-SCALE ETHICAL PRODUCERS KEEP RURAL COMMUNITIES ALIVE WHILST MAKING SOME OF THE MOST EXCITING WINES IN LATIN AMERICA
Time to drink up, says Lisse Garnett.. The UK drinks more Chilean wine than anyone else. Market contractions challenge this
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Does English wine age backwards?
AGED ENGLISH WINES FROM BREAKY BOTTOM, GUSBOURNE & HATTINGLEY DELIGHTED THE TASTE BUDS OF TIME-SERVED TASTERS AT THE LIBÉRATION TARDIVE FOUNDATION ‘TEN YEAR PLUS’ TASTING IN SKINNERS HALL THIS MONTH – SO FRESH WERE THE WINES ONE WAG PRONOUNCED THEM BOOZE BOTOX
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SOUTH AFRICA LAGS BEHIND EUROPE WHEN IT COMES TO ORGANIC VITICULTURE – 12 PRODUCERS UNITE TO SEEK CHANGE
Organic wine movement spearheaded by Radford Dale in South Africa
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South Africa in England: we taste the inaugural gold medal winning vintage of Tidebrook Wines, from medieval Mousehall, the Jordan winery and distillery in Mayfield, East Sussex
Gary and Kathy Jordan are well known for their Stellenbosch winery. Back in 2018 they began their quest for the
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Ortega, Britain’s great white hope or just another white elephant?
‘If there is one varietal that cannot be accused of a lack of flavour, it is the German vine crossing
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Why should we care about the age of the vine that made our wine?
Man’s history with the vine predates the written word. Old vines map man’s passage to the new world and our
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Michel Chapoutier, begetter of biological life, advocate of love and latent English vigneron presents his Sélections Parcellaires en primeur 2021 to a salivating crowd
Chapoutier talks of granite, lovemaking, Jefferson, sentient plants, vines on the Scilly Isles and the strength of life over death.
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