2015 Bordeaux En Primeur: A Door Half Open?
I attended a conference in Bordeaux last November on the future of en primeur. It was fascinating to hear, in…
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Clonakilla Shiraz/Viognier 1992–2011
Wine and politics should never mix. Perhaps that is why the wineries from the Canberra region in New South Wales…
Jura: Cotes of Many Colors
Well… This was an unusual and rewarding tasting of wines from France’s most singular wine region. The results follow; first,…
Glimmers from the Year in Wine
It was a short stroll across the village to meet with Heidi Schröck and taste her new vintage. Heidi makes…
Oh precious liquor. What can one do without you?
Reviewed by Stuart Walton The only radical intoxicant still permitted to the mass of humanity, other than where religious interdiction…
Does the Answer Lie in the Soil?
The word “terroir” comes from soil, and I have always assumed that the dominant influence on terroir (insofar as influences…
Stemming the Tide
The world of fine wine is big and diverse, and it’s dangerous to make generalizations. But if we take a…
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Classical and Oriental Spirits
Sentiment, of course, should never affect our judgment. It certainly did, I’m afraid, when we drank a bottle of Château…
