Island Wines: a tasting of sweet wines from Tenerife, Pantellaria, Kefalonia and Santorini
Matteo Montone presented this seminar on sweet wines from islands, as part of the excellent Island Wines summit in Tenerife.
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Lunch at Treadwell (Niagara, Canada) with some lovely wines: Ulysses Colin, La Rogerie and Comando G
Sometimes you have to seize the opportunity, Ferris Bueller style. I’d been judging wine with a panel that consisted of
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Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (11) Lake Breeze
Website: https://www.lakebreeze.ca/ Lake Breeze is on the Naramata Bench, and since 2021 has been owned by the McIntyre family. The
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Restaurants: Fat Rabbit, St Catharines, Niagara – so good I went twice in a week
Website: https://fat-rabbit.ca/ I was in town a day early for the WineAlign National Wine Awards in Canada’s Niagara region, and
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The concept of island wines is now firmly established: a tasting with Pascaline Lepeltier
At the 2026 Island Wines Summit, celebrated sommelier Pascaline Lepeltier (now at Chambers Wines in New York) led a really
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Alentejeo Spotlight: on the road in Manchester, Edinburgh and Bristol with some interesting wines from this Portuguese region
I’ve just been on the road. Together with João Barroso, who heads up the Wines of Alentejo Sustainability Program (WASP),
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Highlights: Stéphane Revel Novicius Malbec Fruité 2024 Cahors
Website: https://www.revel.vin/en In 2022 Stéphane Revel took over the reins of Château de Rouffiac with two partners. The oldest vines
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Highlights: Domaine Evremond Classic Cuvée NV Edition II
It’s the second release of this high-profile English sparkling wine, a collaboration between Champagne Taittinger and Hatch Mansfield. You can
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New releases from new-wave Vinho Verde star Constantino Ramos
I’ve written about Constantino Ramos and his wines in depth before on this site. I caught up with him at
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Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (9) Kismet Estate Winery
Website: https://www.kismetestatewinery.com/ There’s a great story to Kismet. Sukwinder (Sukhi) and Balwinder Dhaliwal moved from the Punjab in India to
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