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The Grandes Marques at War

by Paul Beaver | Sep 30, 2022 | Blog

The Grandes Marques at War Standing on the steps of a farmhouse north of Reims, it is easy to see why most Champenois stay here for generations. From the back door, the carefully tended fields of barley and Pinot Noir grapes are flanked by rows of beehives, which all...

10th International Cool Climate Wine Symposium (ICCWS)

by Stephen Skelton | Sep 30, 2022 | Blog

10th International Cool Climate Wine Symposium (ICCWS) After a delay of two years, the 10th International Cool Climate Wine Symposium finally got under way. Held at Brock University’s ‘Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute’ in St Catharines on the Niagara...

Fine Dining the Burgundy Way

by Raymond Blake | Jun 30, 2022 | Blog

Fine Dining the Burgundy Way A genie came out of a lamp and said: ‘I am going to whisk you to Burgundy where you will be allowed to choose one dish, one single dish, that you have had before in a restaurant there. You have 30 seconds.’ Ooh… Bending the one-single-dish...

Millesima ‘Panorama’ Tasting – Vintage 2020

by Raymond Blake | May 27, 2022 | Blog

Millesima ‘Panorama’ Tasting – Vintage 2020 The rain poured down… and down, yet it did nothing to dampen the spirits as I and a host of colleagues avoided the deluge in a most pleasant fashion: tasting scores of about-to-be-bottled wines from the already...

Portugal and the Wines that Time Forgot

by Simon J Woolf | May 27, 2022 | Blog

Portugal and the Wines that Time Forgot When Ryan Opaz and I decided around 2016 to co-author a book about Portuguese wine and winemakers, we were quickly confronted with a challenging question: why does the wine-loving world have so little appreciation of Portuguese...

Il Vino Unisce: An interview with Angelo Gaja

by Andrew James | May 27, 2022 | Blog

Il Vino Unisce: An interview with Angelo Gaja On a misty mid-April morning in Barbaresco, with the cobblestone streets wet and glistening, the village breathed a palpable sigh of relief. For its six hundred residents, life revolves around wine and finally, after four...