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...The ebullient Jean-Charles Boisset of Burgundy arrived at Raymond in 2009, Chanel Inc bought St Supéry in 2015 and the next year the Tesserons of Ch Pontet Canet in Bordeaux bought Robin Williams’ winery...
...and the winery to make authentic wines reflective of their respective regions and wine cultures....
...Tasting notes, scores and suggested drink dates on Purple Pages of JancisRobinson.com....
...He has continued to insist that any changes have been minuscule and entirely focused on quality, although the purchase of a new six-hectare vineyard in 2019 (albeit with the same soil type and elevation...
...And it has the same structure as a bordeaux.” After an extensive and successful tasting, we wandered out into the dusk with a crescent moon hovering above the sprawling Bussía vineyard....
...And Tony Laithwaite, king of direct-to-consumer wine retailing, is also about to buy a vineyard in Cabrières. L’Estabel already supplies Laithwaite's with white and rosé under the label Le Roi Soleil....
...This would make the most luxurious aperitif.£195 The Whisky Exchange Tasting notes, scores and suggested drink dates on Purple Pages of JancisRobinson.com....
...and Laotian vineyard workers there....
...As Filippo and Francesco Mazzei, along with Filippo’s son Giovanni, gave me a tour of the vineyards closest to the smart winery designed by their architect sister, we bumped into Howard, the gamekeeper from...
...Mody went to New Zealand in 2007 to work for Vavasour Wines, moved to Napa Valley on his return and sent out his résumé to 30 wineries....
...Today Lodi’s vineyards mainly supply bulk wine for blending to the behemoth Gallo and wineries with smarter addresses....
...In 1997, buccaneering Cape wine producer Bruce Jack and vineyard owner Francis Pratt planted vines for The Berrio label, followed a year later by local farmers, the Human family, with wines that would be...
...Quite a few of the wines I tasted came from vineyards at between 1,800m and 2,000m, which is higher than many vineyards in Mendoza, Argentina’s most important Andean wine region....
...In Oregon it is still possible for an ambitious aspiring winemaker to buy some grapes and the odd barrel, and persuade a friendly winery owner to let them practise the art of winemaking in a corner of their...
...“A landscape like this is 10 times more expensive to work than flat vineyards”, says Alberto Cusumano, one half of the sibling team behind Alta Mora winery, as he shows us how the vines are inaccessible...
...The region is not yet rivalling the best of Burgundy, but seems determined to get there. Tasting notes, scores and suggested drink dates on Purple Pages of JancisRobinson.com....
...By the end of the summer, after the so-called Glass Fire that struck for good measure in late September, a total of 4.2 million acres had burnt, including wineries and vineyards....
...Within five miles of Danbury, there are now 25 vineyards but none, except New Hall, have a winery.”...
...Thanks largely to the success of Cloudy Bay, pastures and orchards were rapidly converted into vineyards and competitor brands mushroomed, the most successful of them becoming international household names...
...The visit that made the strongest impression on him was to Marco Marengo’s mother’s house in La Morra. (Marengos’ smart winery was only built in 2011 and they don’t have a website.)...
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