Wine Travel
Now is the time to plan the next season’s wine and food tours. Take a look at what we propose on the program. I hope
Now is the time to plan the next season’s wine and food tours. Take a look at what we propose on the program. I hope
Summer has taken a long time to arrive but now we finally have some sunshine and nice temperatures here. But with such a slow moving
Some wine sites that you might enjoy visiting: What Randall Grahm thinks about terroir (Grahm is the cult wine maker in California that created Bonny
Perhaps like swearing in church? Portugal is the world’s biggest producer of natural cork (made from bark from the cork oak tree). Miguel Champalimaud, owner
The American Society for Enology and Viticulture has just had its annual meeting. Two research papers were given prizes: “Best Viticulture Paper”: Bud Microclimate and
The price of wine exported from Australia has gone down with 30% according to a report by the consultant Deloitte. It is feared that a
V&S Vin & Sprit AB, owned by the Swedish government, has announced improved results for the first quarter. The business area V&S Absolut Spirits (including
The final of the Trophée Ruinart, popularly called the European championship for sommeliers, with be held at the Théatre des Champs Elysées in Paris on
Wine prices are expected to go up with 30% in Russia after the government outlawed wine imports from Georgia and Moldova. The ban has been
Château Montrose, a 70 ha property, Grand Cru Classé in St Estèphe (Medoc, Bordeaux), has changed hands. Martin & Olivier Bouygues bought the chateau and
According to The Independent, the British government under Tony Blair has bought wine for approximately £1 million since Blair took power in 1997.
The Ecole Supérieure d’ Agriculture in Angers in the Loire Valley offers a study program that leads to a Master of Science (MSc) in Wine.
The primeur tastings – the one week wine jamboree for the trade in Bordeaux to present the latest vintage – are now over. Everyone seems
François and Jacques Lurton are already successful winemakers in several wine regions: Languedoc, Chile, Argentina, Spain,… Their next project is, apparently, Portugal. They have already
Institut des Hautes Etudes du Goût de la Gastronomie et les Arts de la Table Behind this long name hides an interesting education that was
Now is the time to start thinking about how to brighten up the autumn season so I thought it would be a good idea to
Corsica is making great progress in wine. Quality is still sometimes unpredictable (but where is that not the case?) but you can find plenty of
This period of the year is traditionally full of news about the “primeur” tastings of the latest vintage in Bordeaux. You will find links to
CoolBoy is a sort of electric cooling funnel invented by Ian Thompson, a university student in Britain. Thompson was tired of having his and his
Mumm recently launched a prestige champagne called, simply, Mumm Grand Cru. They only made 2300 hl (30,000 bottles) of the first “edition”. It is not
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