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Talking Wine with Peter Vinding-Diers. Peter has m

Talking Wine with Peter Vinding-Diers. Peter has made wine around the world but finally, he has settled in Sicily, on the slopes of Mount Etna, at Montecarrubo. Here he explains why he is producing Syrah in Sicily.
@vindingmontecarrubo @corneyandbarrow
Read more about Peter’s fascinating journey, in his memoirs, Viking in the Vineyard. Available at academieduvinlibrary.com Link in bio

Talking Royal Tokaji with Hugh Johnson and Ben How

Talking Royal Tokaji with Hugh Johnson and Ben Howkins. Hugh Johnson and Ben Howkins recall the early days when, together with Peter-Vinding Diers, they founded @royaltokaji in Hungary, their goal was to restore to life the prestigious sweet wine of Tokaj.

Hugh Johnson will be in conversation with Peter Vi

Hugh Johnson will be in conversation with Peter Vinding-Diers @vindingmontecarrubo, legendary vigneron and ‘flying winemaker’, to launch his memoir, Viking in the Vineyard.

Peter has had an extraordinary career, learning his craft in South Africa and Bordeaux, then establishing vineyards in Hungary, Chile, Spain, Brazil and Bulgaria, among others. Join our authors, Hugh and Peter for a discussion about making wines with ‘feeling’, as well as science.

👉THURSDAY 6 May at 18.30 BST
Register at corneyandbarrow.com/events @corneyandbarrow

🥳🥳It’s a double-celebration day today! It

🥳🥳It’s a double-celebration day today! It’s our second birthday and Publication Day for our ninth book, Viking in the Vineyard by Peter Vinding-Diers. Two years ago, we gathered with friends from the wine world at Vintners’ Hall on 30th April 2019 for another double-celebration, to celebrate the launch of our new venture, the Académie du Vin Library, and the publication of Michael Broadbent’s commemorative edition of Wine Tasting, our very first book. Cheers!🥂🥂
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Thank you for supporting our small business. We hope you enjoy our books as much as we do. To show you how much we appreciate your support, we'd like to offer a 20% discount on all our titles for a day! Use the promo code CELEBRATION20 at the checkout. Link in bio.

#Bordeaux2020 Our Vinosity contibutor, James Lawth

#Bordeaux2020 Our Vinosity contibutor, James Lawther MW gives an insight into last year’s vintage conditions.
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Like 2018, 2020 provided an early vintage and with a wet spring, hot, dry summer and warm, dry harvest (until late September) weather conditions similar to those of both 2018 and 2019. Abundant rain fell in the winter months and again in March, April and May, meaning water tables were replenished everywhere. A window of clement weather around mid-May allowed for a successful flowering, nearly a month ahead of 2019 thanks to early budbreak. But as in 2018, the pressure from downy mildew was high, one of the reasons for a fall in volume. Hail on 17th April in the northern Entre-Deux-Mers and parts of St-Emilion and the Côtes provided another.
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As to the quality of the reds, this is clearly a rich, ripe, dare I say solar vintage with deep colour, high alcohol and powerful tannins. Winemakers will have had to go easy on extraction and on the use of press wine. Herbaceous notes are absent but with acidities the lowest seen in recent years the leading question will be over freshness and balance. Undoubtedly, the potential is there but expect some variability. The dry whites look more consistent and there is a tiny volume of pure but not super-concentrated Sauternes.

To find out more, follow the link in our bio.

#newtitle 🥳 We are excited to share this advanc

#newtitle 🥳 We are excited to share this advance copy that arrived from the printer ahead of publication.

Stories from a revolutionary winemaker Peter Vinding-Diers.
“Peter has shot like a comet through the wine skies over the past 50 years...” - Hugh Johnson

📘Viking in the Vineyard by Peter Vinding-Diers publishing on 30th April 2021. Pre-order now. Link in bio.

Even for top professionals the many hundreds of di

Even for top professionals the many hundreds of different aromas in wine are impossible to recognise at once. Sam Caporn MW @themistressofwine has developed a specialist infographic, The Wine Flavour Tree (we love it!) to help identify the 40 grape flavours that we’ll enjoy the most. 🍋🍏🍑🥭🫐🍌🍍🍓🍒

’... wine really does smell and taste of more than ‘just wine’ as its flavour is comprised of a wide range of aromas that smell just like different fruits and flowers… And it’s this multifaceted array of aromas that make wine so wonderfully captivating and complex.’

❓Which are your favourite branches?

👉Read more on Vinosity: the latest news from the world of wine. Link in bio.

Over the course of this year, our Vinosity contri

Over the course of this year, our Vinosity contributor Jason Tesauro @themoderngent will be wending his way through the grape alphabet and tasting 26 varietal wines from Aligoté to Zweigelt. He'll begin his first ‘Grapetionary’ with a trio of whites (A, B, C) from France, Portugal and Italy.

Your homework: seek out these and other indigenous obscurities/curiosities, and report back to us. Post your finds with #grapetionary. Between you, Jason and our other Vinosity readers, who knows how many of those 1,368 we can tackle!
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What are your favourites starting with the letter A, B, C?

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Aligoté is a pre-phylloxera Burgundian mainstay, it lost its perch when Chardonnay took-off on grafted rootstock. Left behind in the Grand Cru dust, Aligoté was mixed with local cassis to make Kir cocktails in the early 1900s. But fans remained. Bourgogne Aligoté earned appellation status in 1937, and in 1998 one Côte Chalonnaise village went all-in and promoted Aligoté to its own appellation with strict yields: Bouzeron. Recently, a group of producers and devotees founded an Aligoté advocacy group: ‘Les Aligoteurs’. Aligoté is also gaining popularity in Eastern Europe.
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Read the full article on Vinosity. Link in bio.

This competition is now closed.
Our author Hugh J

This competition is now closed.
Our author Hugh Johnson writes about wines but also about trees, gardens and gardening. His delightful new anthology, Sitting in the shade has just been published by Mitchell Beazley @octopus_books_ To celebrate the release of Hugh’s new book, we are giving away to a lucky winner a copy of Sitting in the shade and a copy of his recently republished wine book, The Story of Wine.

To Enter:
🍀FOLLOW @academieduvinlibrary and @octopus_books_
🍀LIKE AND SAVE this post
🍀TAG a friend who loves wine and gardening

The giveaway closes at 11.59pm BST on Sunday 11th April, the winner will be announced in our IG Story.

Good luck!🍀🍀🍀🍀

The books are available to buy:
📗Sitting in the Shade: A decade of my garden diary by Hugh Johnson, published by Mitchell Beazley, £17.99
www.octopusbooks.co.uk

📕The Story of Wine - From Noah to Now by Hugh Johnson, published by Académie du Vin Library
Link in bio.

PRE-ORDER NOW 👇📘
Viking in the Vineyard by P

PRE-ORDER NOW 👇📘
Viking in the Vineyard by Peter Vinding-Diers
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‘One of the world’s most interesting winemakers’ – Forbes
‘The godfather of wine and adventure’ – Eben Sadie

Peter Vinding-Diers is a Danish aristocrat turned roving winemaker, who on escaping his studies at the Sorbonne one summer, found himself on Burgundy’s Côte de Beaune, suddenly besotted. His first foray into wine took him to the Cape (via a quick turn parachuting into war-torn Vietnam), where he learned vineyard ways and wine science. Next came a dazzling decade in Bordeaux, where his pioneering exploits began to catch the world’s attention. He then ventured to Bulgaria, Brazil, Spain, Chile and Hungary earning himself the title ‘Flying Winemaker’ (he was one of the first). Along his wine journey, Peter has frequently had to call on his Viking ancestors for help – not least in taming his ‘Montecarrubo’ vineyards on the wilder side of Sicily – but whether by accident or design he has always found himself at the forefront of vinous discovery...

The book includes tributes to Peter from wine legends Anthony Barton (Château Léoville-Barton), Jean-Michel Cazes (Château Lynch-Bages), Hugh Johnson, Tony Laithwaite, Peter Sisseck (Dominio de Pingus), Eben Sadie and Miguel Torres.

We would like to offer you a special saving of £5/$5 when you pre-order Viking in the Vineyard by Peter Vinding-Diers. To get a copy, visit our website and add the coupon code VIKING5 at the top of the checkout page. Link in bio.

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Remembering Steven Spurrier. Instagram post 18073726513271096

Goodbye to Steven

‘A wonderful man.’ ‘Such

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