Champagne Billecart Salmon release the 2008 Cuvée Nicolas François, and it’s a stunner
Champagne Billecart Salmon have released the 2008 vintage of one of their flagship wines, the Cuvée Nicolas François. This is
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Features
Focus: Alsace Riesling
Earlier this year, Conseil Interprofessionnel des Vins d’Alsace (Vins Alsace) held a worldwide Millésimes Alsace DigiTasting, sending out hundreds of
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A vertical of Grand Cru Echezeaux from Domaine Georges Mugneret-Gibourg
This was a tasting dinner at Noble Rot with cousins Marion Nauleau-Mugneret and Lucie Teillaud-Mugneret of Domaine Mugneret-Gibourg, in which we
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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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