A quick Franciacorta study
Franciacorta is Italy’s premier region for sparkling wines. It’s an old region that reinvented itself around bubbles in the 1960s.
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Features
A quick look at some top 2018 Vintage Ports
2018 is the third in a run of good vintages for Port, maybe fourth if you count 2015, too. So
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Aligoté study: three wines compared
I’m really interested in Aligoté, and it seems that this once neglected grape variety is finding increasing support. There’s a
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Old vine Carignan and Cinsault from Domaine des Tourelles, Lebanon
It seems like things are happening on the Lebanese wine scene. Hot on the heels of an interview with new
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Does a producer have any rights to their wines, once they have sold them?
I recently wrote a piece for Little Wine about the grey market for wine, and how this has started to
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The new ‘Classics’ range from Marks & Spencer
UK retailer Marks & Spencer has made its biggest wine launch in recent years with a new range titled ‘Classics’.
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Megalomaniac, Niagara, Canada – interview and tasting with Sébastien Jacquey
Sébastien Jacquey is winemaker at Megalomaniac in Canada’s Niagara wine region, but he’s actually a transplant from France. It was
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The science of flor: what’s that growing on my wine?
What is flor? It’s something that grows on the surface of wine: a film of yeasts. And it alters the
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Yalumba: champions of Viognier
Australian winery Yalumba are an interesting wine company. They are big, but not huge. They manage to behave like a
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Ixsir: the new star on the Lebanese wine scene
Lebanon is a country with a long history of wine production, but – as with many countries in the middle
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