Yalumba: champions of Viognier, tasting five different examples
Australian winery Yalumba are an interesting wine company. They are big, but not huge. They manage to behave like a
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Why do wines fail? Insights from a major competition
I’ve spent the last week judging wines at the International Wine Challenge as one of the co-chairs. The judging process
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Exploring Costières de Nîmes (5) Château Font-Barrièle
Website: https://chateaufontbarriele.fr/ Not all winery visits go as planned. I was on my way to meet with Christian and Caroline
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Bordeaux en primeur: the Tinder of fine wine
It’s Bordeaux en primeur time! For two weeks, 6000 wine professionals – a mixture of merchants, journalists and various other
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Maison Wessman Wines: an ambitious producer in southwest France
Website: https://maisonwessman-wines.com/en/ Maison Wessman is an ambitious producer based in Bergerac in southwest France. It was founded by Robert Wessman
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Hidalgo La Gitana Manzanilla: comparing the regular bottling with the 2023 and 2021 releases of en rama
This wine comes from The El Cuadrado vineyard in Balbaina Alta, which is actually in Jerez, but the wine is
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The wines of Lock + Worth from Canada’s Okanagan Valley
Website: Lock + Worth Matt Sherlock and Ross Hackworth make some of the Okanagan’s most interesting wines under their Lock
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Exploring Costières de Nîmes (4) Domaine de Poulvarel
Website: https://domainedepoulvarel.com/the-domain-of-poulvarel/ My exploration of the Costières de Nîmes continued in the north of the region, at Domaine de Poulvarel.
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Laudun: the birth of a new cru in the Rhône
Laudun isn’t perhaps the best known of the Rhône’s appellations, but it is currently moving from one of the Côtes
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Clairette de Die and friends: the Diois wines from the Rhône
Website: www.clairette-de-die.com The Rhône isn’t somewhere you think of when it comes to sparkling wines, but it makes quite a
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