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Still Wines from Champagne – Fizz’s Final Frontier
12 May, 2021
A wave of new releases from some of Champagne’s most famous houses – and growers – is shifting attention away from the region’s fizz and on to its still wines. Essi Avellan MW explores the world of Coteaux Champenois Charles Heidsieck cellar …
New Kids on the Roussillon Block…
12 May, 2021
Vineyards with a backdrop of the Canigou. Photo credit: Conseil Interprofessionnel des vins du Roussillon The vinous landscape of Roussillon has changed enormously in the last 20 years or so, and it’s now finally beginning to emerge from the shadows …
Bordeaux 2020
27 April, 2021
James Lawther MW gives the background to Bordeaux’s latest vintage ahead of the En Primeur tastings this April Ten years on, will the 2020 vintage, alongside 2019 and 2018, make it another golden treble for Bordeaux, emulating 2010, 2009 and …
‘Grapetionary’ – A Wine Grape A–Z
31 March, 2021
Quick, name a wine grape that starts with the letter ‘Q’. How about ‘Y’… or ‘J’? Remember Julie and Julia (2009), the book and movie in which a food writer cooks every recipe in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of …
In memoriam: Steven Spurrier
31 March, 2021
May 1976. My diary for the week starts with having dinner with Steven and Bella in Paris at their charming apartment in Rue de la Cerisaie on May 23rd. After regaling us several delicious 1961 clarets, Steven announced that we …
Explaining the Wine Flavour Tree
31 March, 2021
Flavours in wine are very complex and understanding them involves a fairly in-depth knowledge of wine chemistry, but in essence they come from the grape itself and also from the winemaking process. Alcohol and carbon dioxide are not the only …
Burgundy in the time of Covid
26 February, 2021
Pruned vines in Meursault Robin Kick MW counts herself lucky to taste the 2019 Burgundy En Primeurs For many, this past year has been a succession of what might be viewed as perpetual working ‘staycations’, peppered with travel bans and …
South Africa Beware
25 February, 2021
Photo credit: wosa.co.za On February 2nd 1990, the 331st anniversary – to the day – of the first grape harvest in South Africa, President F W de Klerk announced the imminent release of Nelson Mandela after 27 years in prison. …
Helping us through Lockdown
28 January, 2021
The best headline I have seen so far (and indeed, they are in short supply this month) captions a letter to The Daily Telegraph. It is headed ‘Dry – like Sherry’ and reads: ‘Sir, Visiting my local bottle bank, the …
’Tis the Season for Cream Sherry!
10 December, 2020
If you run a Google search for ‘crème de la crème’ you are met with three delicious options, crème brulée, crème fraiche and crème caramel. But if you Google ‘cream sherry’, you will be bewildered beyond measure. I was. (I …
Barolo Vignarionda is a Whole Other Story
9 December, 2020
Vignarionda or Vigna Rionda, or Arionda, or Rotonda. The shape of this cru explains the many variations of its name that have graced bottle labels over the decades: the Rionda Vineyard, is so-named because ‘rionda’ derives from the word rotonda, …
The Wine Trade 1964–2020
3 December, 2020
How has the wine trade changed in the 56 years since I joined Christopher’s (London’s oldest wine merchant) in February 1964 to the day I submitted my ‘Goodbye’ column for Decanter magazine in May 2020? It has transformed in pretty …
