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From the vaults: Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay—a view from Europe

Hawke's Bay · Hawke's Bay

From the vaults: Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay—a view from Europe

In a piece first published in WFW73 in 2020, Michael Schuster is impressed by the quality of the Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay Collection compiled by Cameron Douglas MS. Starting in 2010, with the 2008 vintage, the Gimblett Gravels Association released, to top commentators worldwide, a selection of a dozen red wines representing the best of a single year from Hawke’s Bay’s Gimblett Gravels, the selection made by Andrew Caillard MW. At the end of 2020…Read Article

Behind the scenes at Krug

Grand Est · Grand Est

Behind the scenes at Krug

Anne Krebiehl MW joins the Krug team for a detailed look at the making of the house’s single-vineyard Chardonnay, Clos du Mesnil, and distinctive Multi-Vintage blends. Show, don’t tell” is the maxim employed by artists to draw in their audience. Krug is using it, too, to great effect. Each year in spring, select international guests are treated to a “behind the scenes” visit chez Krug to spend time with chef de cave Julie Cavil, Olivier Krug, an…Read Article

Dão white wines: The distinctive styles of Encruzado & Co

Portugal · Portugal

Dão white wines: The distinctive styles of Encruzado & Co

Richard Mayson introduces a positive tasting that proved the potential for dry whites made in a multiplicity of styles in Dão. There was a time when Portugal was thought of primarily as a red-wine country. With the exception of Vinho Verde from the cool northwest of the country, Portugal’s image was shaped by Port and burly reds from the Douro, Dão, and the Alentejo. I clearly recall that when I was asked by the Portuguese wine promotion body to…Read Article

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Changes on the menu

Stuart Walton reviews Tastes and Traditions: A Journey through Menu History by Nathalie Cooke. The restaurant menu makes a richly informative and also highly enjoyable field of study. Its seductions are apparent in the moment, shortly after we have sat down at the table, and in the decades and centuries that succeed its immediate occasion, when it makes one of the most compelling sources of intelligence about how people in earlier times ate. It …London, England · London Read Article

Domaine Jacques Prieur Montrachet 1999–2020

I am fortunate to taste mature vintages of Burgundy grands crus fairly often, but a vertical of Montrachet, the greatest of grand cru whites, is pretty rare and sufficiently intriguing to merit a flying visit to Burgundy for a day to taste 12 vintages of Domaine Jacques Prieur Montrachet and take a walk in its illustrious parcel. In fact, the 0.5863ha (1.5-acre) parcel is divided into two distinct sections at the top of Montrachet in the Chassa…France · France Read Article

Sober, all too sober

With more and more people, especially young people, choosing to stay sober, Harry Eyres ponders two approaches to persuading them of wine’s many “intellectual and cultural satisfactions.” I had not meant to start like this. I had promised our esteemed editor a heartening column—and still hope this will turn out to be one. My intention was not to begin with sobering statistics and gloomy prognostications. But as the Spanish philosopher José Orteg…Madrid, Spain · Madrid Read Article

Ulysse Collin recent releases: A Champagne odyssey

It was only the second masterclass Olivier Collin had ever given in the UK, and just like the first, five years ago, it was held at Noble Rot in Lamb’s Conduit Street, London (see WFW 68, pp.84–87). The audience was chiefly made up of sommeliers from across the country, representing a total of 23 Michelin stars between them. Collin emphasized how important the “gastronomic channel” was for his “gastronomic wines,” with only small proportions of …London, England · London Read Article

Laurent-Perrier Grand Siècle: Moving above the radar

A tasting of any new release of Laurent-Perrier Grand Siècle is always keenly anticipated, but there was no suggestion that a new iteration (Laurent-Perrier’s word) was to be unveiled at the event held in the boardroom of The Vintners Hall in London at the end of April. Indeed, the invitation—from, tantalizingly, the largely unknown new cellar master (of whom, more in a moment)—was billed not as a tasting but a masterclass. It turned out to be a…London, England · London Read Article

Rioja at 100 and a crossroads

Noah Chichester reports on the creative tensions between traditionalists and terroiristes in Rioja. There is no energy unless there is a tension of opposites,” wrote Carl Jung, and nowhere in the wine world does that feel more relevant today than in Rioja. As Spain’s oldest denominación de origen celebrates its centenary, it finds itself in the middle of a standoff between two visions of the future. No one can predict what any wine region will l…La Rioja, Spain · La Rioja Read Article

Single-vineyard Sicily: Exploring the complexity of Etna’s <em>contrade</em>

After attracting international attention to their distinctive wines and extraordinary collection of very old vines, Etna’s winemakers are increasingly exploring the specifics of their contrade in single-vineyard bottlings. Shivering in the sub-zero temperature, I listened to the guide describing Mt Etna’s various eruptions. But the gale which blew the sleet horizontally carried his words away into the misty vacuum of the crater. It was warmer d…Sicily · Sicily Read Article

2024 Tour de France: Wheeling and dealing on the Route des Grands Crus

Along the Route des Grands Crus de Bourgogne, admiring crowds gather to cheer on the riders of the 2024 Tour de France, with bottles of wine—or cans of beer—kept fresh in coolers. Thierry Gaudillère captures the high seriousness and summer fun in images and words. Additional photography by Jon Wyand. Atop a blue cooler, his yellow hair the color of the famous jersey, a boy sits with his little flag of the Côte d’Or as Mickey Mouse waves to him f…Tour De France · Chassagne-Montrachet See the Story