This International Grenache Day, we share an essay from Andrew Jefford’s book Drinking with the Valkyries that reveals a lesser-known wine region of Sardinia where Grenache goes by the name of Cannonau. The island’s exuberant wine, with its dark fruit, …
It fits its landscape and the local cuisine so perfectly that you’d think it had been there forever. But, as Henry Jeffreys reports, we’ve only recently come to love the ‘squeeze of grapefruit and saline tang’ of the humble Picpoul
Climate change is forcing Burgundians to reassess the way they grow grapes as well as how they ferment and age them. In this extract from his chapter ‘Burgundy in the face of climate change’ in the just-published On Burgundy, Tim …
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– Steven Spurrier
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