Video: visiting Château Cos d’Estournel, St Estèphe, Bordeaux
Cos d’Estournel, second growth in the 1855 classification, is acknowledged to be one of the top properties in Bordeaux. Jamie
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Blackbook: an urban winery in London
Website: https://www.blackbookwinery.com/ Blackbook is an urban winery, based under a railway arch in Battersea, London. It’s the project of Sergio
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Heinrich: how a Burgenland winegrower became successful, then changed style
Gernot and Heike Heinrich were custodians of one of Austria’s most critically acclaimed wineries. With 100 hectares in Burgenland, they
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Video: grape processing at Château Mercian in Japan
Here’s s short film of some grapes being processed at the main winery of Château Mercian in Japan.
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Highlights: two sparkling wines from Fitzpatrick, Okanagan, Canada
Fitzpatrick Fitz Blanc de Blanc 2015 Okanagan, Canada12% alcohol. The Fitzpatrick family owned Cedar Creek, and when they sold to
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Highlights: Staffelter Hof Little Bastard 2019 Mosel
Jan Matthias Klein runs his family estate, Staettler Hof in Kröv, in Germany’s Mosel region. As well as some more
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10 superb organic Austrian wines
Austria is an interesting country for wine at the moment. Here are notes on 10 organic Austrian wines that I
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Marc Delienne, a new natural winegrower in Fleurie
Beaujolais is a hotspot for natural wine, and one of the new names here is Marc Delienne in Fleurie. Jamie
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Abe Schoener: the thought-leader vigneron, opening a new urban winery in LA
Abe Schoener, ex-philosophy professor, is the winemaker behind the Scholium Project, an innovative Californian micronegociant winery that’s hard to put
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Highlights: Quinta do Noval Petit Verdot 2016, Douro
Why would you plant Petit Verdot in the Douro? It’s a region that already has a host of well adapted
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