Champagne Billecart-Salmon Le Clos Saint-Hilaire: tasting all 7 releases to date
This was my first time tasting one of Champagne Billecart-Salmon’s prestige cuvées, Clos Saint-Hilaire. It comes from a single-hectare plot
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Regions
Highlights: Niepoort Vintage Port 2003
This is a Vintage Port that I tried early on in its life, and then went an bought a bottle
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Visiting Château Lagrezette, Alain Dominique Perrin’s private home in Cahors
Lisse Garnett visits the romantic castle of Château Lagrezette, purchased as a ruin and renovated by Alain Dominique Perrin in
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Highlights: Champagne Taittinger Prélude Grands Crus NV France
Taittinger have 288 hectares of their own vineyards in Champagne, and supplement this with fruit they buy. They’re very well
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Champagne: the state of the industry, plus 12 memorable bottles from 2021
The good news is we will not run out of champagne. The worrisome news is that it may be harder
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The Crouch Valley, Essex: a leading region for English still wines
The Crouch Valley in Essex is turning out to be a hotspot for still English wines. The reason? It is
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Video: The Crouch Valley in Essex is emerging as a leading English wine region
There is a lot of excitement about the Crouch Valley in Essex, which is emerging as a top wine growing
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Lokaia, an exciting new project from Franschhoek, South Africa
Lokaia is a joint project from Franschhoek vignerons Clayton Reabow (winemaker at Moreson) and Craig McNaught (winemaker at Stony Brook).
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Highlights: Castello Banfi Rosso di Montalcino 2019 Toscana, Italy
Banfi are the biggest players by far in Tuscany’s Montalcino region, with 950 hectares under vine. But this isn’t an
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Bairrada, perhaps Portugal’s best terroir? In seven wines
Bairrada is a wine region in northern Portugal that is attracting a lot of attention at the moment. It has
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