Books. Some of these books are quite old now; the most recently published volumes are at the top. We give links to buy all of them from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com but please also check out bookshop.org, the online bookshop operated by independent book retailers. Unexpectedly for a wine that is quintessentially light and white, champagne is made from predominantly black grapes. Less than 30% of Champagne's 34,000 ha (84,000 acres) of neat, low, rows of densely planted vines are light-skinned Chardonnay, the white burgundy grape. The red burgundy grape Pinot Noir is planted on almost 40% of Champagne's ...James Lawther MW. James has been a Bordeaux-based wine writer since 1996. He cut his teeth in the wine trade in Paris in the 1980s with Steven Spurrier at Caves de la Madeleine then passed the MW exam in 1993. He was a long-time contributing editor to Decanter and contributes to The World Atlas of Wine, The Oxford Companion to Wine and Hugh ... Wines for special medical conditions. Diabetics should take care to choose bone dry wines, for example Chablis, Muscadet, Sancerre or Pouilly-Fumé, Fino and Manzanilla sherry and most European red wines – so long as they are relatively low in alcohol. Wines sold specifically as Diabetic are usually low in both sugar and alcohol. Last month, along with my fellow members of the RHWC, I spent a morning in the cellars under the Palace tasting blind 31 whites and 31 reds submitted as potential wines for this year's royal receptions at prices from £4.12 a bottle for a Rosso Piceno from Italy to £7.50 for Justerini & Brooks' favourite white Mâcon-Uchizy. Hardly extravagant.SUPERIOR SAUVIGNON BLANCS. De Grendel Sauvignon Blanc 2022 Cape Town 13.5%. £11.99 Waitrose. Terrapura, Gran Reserva Sauvignon Blanc 2022 San Antonio, Chile 13%. £11.99 Waitrose. Blank Canvas ...Ch Musar 1998 (and every vintage!) Bekaa Valley. Richard salutes an old favourite, whose cellars are pictured above. From $20.39, 3,999 Icelandic kronur, 119 Polish zloty, £25.49, HK$283, €40.02, SG$84. This is not only my WoW, but my WoY. When I tasted the 1998 vintage earlier this month, it was the perfect antidote to 2020 – a wine …Here is the story of one young female winemaker that nicely illustrates the current evolutionary state of the wine world. Emma Gao was born and raised in Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia, a remote and impoverished province in central China. After studying literature, she was somehow able to study economic agriculture at university in what was ...Jancis Robinson. 11 Apr 2020. Free for all. natural wine. sulphites. labelling. Natural wine defined. Free for all. natural wine. sulphites. labelling. A slightly shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See also Natural v industrial wine, which puts the topic in historical perspective.Jancis Robinson. 22 Mar 2024. Tasting articles. Burgundy. Burgundy 2022. More 2022 burgundies – d'Angerville, Lambrays and Pacalet. Tasting articles. Burgundy. …Jancis Robinson. Wines of the week. Troupis, Ekato Moschofilero Rosé 2022 PGI Arcadia. A deeply coloured, skin-fermented Greek rosé made from an aromatic pink-skinned grape... 29 Dec 2023. Julia Harding MW. Wines of the week. Dow's 1970 port (and 2017) The best-value wine in the history of the universe?Our fearless and hard-working Italy editor Walter has worked with Italian wine for many years, including a stint as buyer at the Michelin-starred Le Pont de la Tour in London. Walter has written for us since 2008, and he also contributes to The World Atlas of Wine, The Oxford Companion to Wine and Decanter magazine. Walter is based in east …The warmer the wine the more smelly it will be. 3. Low temperatures emphasise acidity, bitterness and tannin. 4. High temperatures minimize them. The corollary of rule 1 is that if you find yourself with a wine that tastes (i.e. smells) truly horrid, but you have to serve or drink it, then chill it to pieces.In our OCW entry for Pantelleria, there are grumblings about wines exceeding 140 grams of sugar per litre from extending drying, but the 2018 vintage of Ben Ryé is just shy of 200 g/l and it reigns supreme. The helpfully candid technical sheet reveals that dried grapes are added to an existing fermentation in batches over the course of a …Dom de la Chauvinière 2021 Muscadet-Sèvre et Maine Sur Lie 12%. An unusually characterful white based on a grape variety that’s a member of the greater Pinot family, grown round the mouth of the Loire. Usefully low in alcohol. £10.95 Haynes Hanson & Clark. Château Bel Air Perponcher, Réserve 2021 Bordeaux 12%.Pinot Noir. The fashionable red burgundy grape is capable of producing divinely scented, gorgeously fruity expressions of place but often unwilling or unable to do so. Pinot Noir is sensitive to the size of crop it is expected to produce, and many vapid examples exemplify an over-demanding yield. It ripens relatively early ( Chardonnay and ...Jancis Robinson. Jancis Robinson is a British wine writer and critic who rose to fame in the mid-1980s after becoming the first MW (Master of Wine) from outside the wine trade. She is now one of the most influential commentators in the business. Robinson writes a weekly column for the Financial Times as well as running her own website ...Tempranillo is best known as the dominant grape of red rioja, Spain's most famous wine. To make a parallel with the most celebrated blended red wine in the world, red bordeaux, Tempranillo plays the Cabernet Sauvignon part while the much juicier, fruitier Garnacha (known in France as Grenache) plays the role of plumper blending partner Merlot.In 2018, the official harvest of wine grapes from the vineyards was 182,569 tonnes, of which wineries processed 151,938 tonnes (giving 1.04 million hl/27.5 million gal) and the rest going to home-made wines. Forecasts for 2019 suggest that wine production was down to 908,000 hl from 126,800 tonnes, so a further decrease. 20 – Truly exceptional. 19 – A humdinger. 18 – A cut above superior. 17 – Superior. 16 – Distinguished. 15 – Average, a perfectly nice drink with no faults but not much excitement. 14 – Deadly dull. 13 – Borderline faulty or unbalanced. 12 – Faulty or unbalanced. Jim Clendenen 1953–2021. The Wild Boy of Au Bon Climat will be wild no more. There is news that will send shockwaves throughout the wine world. Jim Clendenen, ‘the mind behind’ Au Bon Climat in Santa Barbara County as he took to describing himself, died in his sleep on Saturday night. He was only 68 but, after a truly hectic life of ...Jancis Robinson. December 8 2023. Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Pinot Noir can be just the thing for a festive …Many Greek varieties are extinct or nearly so but the aromatic white Malagousia has been rescued, as has Lagorthi, and Crete’s Vilana. Santorini's Assyrtiko, Roditis and Savatiano are widely planted varieties for white wines and Agiorgitiko, Mavrodaphne, Xynomavro and, to a lesser extent, Limnio are some of the better-known dark-skinned ...NINGXIA – MOST PROMISING WINES. He Lan Qing Xue, Jaibeilan Grand Reserve 2009 Ningxia. This wine, made by Jing Zhang, pictured above, at the government-run model winery, famously won a trophy in last year's Decanter World Wine Awards. The special 'red footprints' bottling is even better and won the Ningxia Wine Awards I judged … Accordingly, France’s total plantings of Mourvèdre increased eightfold in the last three decades of the 20th century and Mourvèdre is now an increasingly important ingredient in reds made around Châteauneuf-du-Pape, adding considerable flesh to the blend, typically representing 10% of a blend dominated by Grenache with a bit of Syrah too. The progeny of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc, is the world's most famous red wine grape, and most planted of any colour. The 'chocolate' to Chardonnay ' s 'vanilla', Cabernet is much more positively flavoured than Chardonnay, and ripens much later, so tends to be planted in rather warmer areas. The great distinction of the wine it produces ...Growing seasons vary enormously from year to year. Here's your free guide to the most relevant vintages in the most significant regions. We think these brief descriptions are more useful than a numerical score. Perhaps the most wonderful thing about Nebbiolo is its perfume. The wine is typically intensely aromatic, developing the most extraordinarily haunting bouquet in which, variously, roses, autumn undergrowth, woodsmoke, violets and tar can often be found – together with a greater variety of other ingredients than most other grapes. Hungary. Like all wine-producing countries in Eastern Europe (and there are many), Hungary is still in the throes of restructuring its wine business in the post-communist era. Until 1989 wine was viewed as simply a commodity like grain or potatoes to be supplied, according to long-term economic plans, to Hungarians and, particularly, Russians.Jancis Robinson is the FT’s wine columnist and founder-editor of ‘The Oxford Companion to Wine’ Listen to our podcast, Culture Call , where FT editors and special guests discuss life and art ...Jancis Robinson. Jancis Robinson is a British wine writer and critic who rose to fame in the mid-1980s after becoming the first MW (Master of Wine) from outside the wine trade. She is now one of the most influential commentators in the business. Robinson writes a weekly column for the Financial Times as well as running her own website ...Bordeaux 2022 – a guide. Links to all our coverage of this promising vintage. Gavin Quinney's image of a parched-looking vineyard in Pomerol, taken on 18 August 2022, is a reminder of the key characteristics of the 2022 growing season: heat and drought. We will be tasting and reporting on virtually all the wines likely to be of importance in ...Chile is a particularly enthusiastic exporter of bulk wine and earns the highest average price per litre for it. According to the OIV, the global wine statistics-gatherer, the total volume of wine shipped around the world in bulk rose 61% between 2005 and 2012 to represent more than 40% of all exported wine. That date 2005 is significant.The biggest by far is L A Cetto, started by an Italian family who arrived in the valley during the dying days of American Prohibition. It’s still run by ‘Don Luis’, 82, who comes into the office every day. Cetto produces about half of all Mexico’s wine, aiming to sell 1.3 million cases this year, and own 600 ha (1,480 acres) of vines in ...Jancis Robinson's Wine Course. One of my most useful books - a sort of Oxford Companion Lite. View book details. Vines, Grapes & Wines. An early work investigating the all-important grapes of the wine world. View book details. Tasting Pleasure: Confessions of a …Petite Sirah. Name applied in California to field blends of at least four varieties: Syrah, Durif, Durif's parent Peloursin and a Peloursin x Durif crossing. Cuttings were taken to Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. Makes robust, tannic, earthy wines. Name applied in California to field blends of at least four varieties: Syrah, Durif, Durif's parent ... Learn how to perfectly match wine with any dish, with wine expert and bestselling author Jancis Robinson. Explore which wines go with meat, fish and vegetari... True Riesling (as opposed to Welschriesling) is widely dispersed in Friuli and Alto Adige where it is called Riesling Renano although few startling examples have so far emerged from the region. Riesling is also allegedly grown widely in the Russia, but much of this may in fact be Welschriesling. Most of southern Europe is too warm for Riesling ...The rise of typicity. Typicité (typicity) is a modern addition to the French language. The use of typicité emerged in the early 1980s and was proposed by agronomist Jean Salette as a way to counter the international competition that the French wine world was suddenly facing. It was articulated as a very positive notion, that would help the ...50 years of Chateau Musar. 30 March 2018 See the coda from Bartholomew Broadbent at the end of this introduction. 28 March 2018 Our tasting team at JancisRobinson.com is pretty blasé. Believe it or not, we sometimes have difficulty fielding a team member to cover some tastings. But one tasting earlier this year drew almost a …The JancisRobinson.com Podcast on Apple Podcasts. 17 episodes. From renowned writer, critic, and master of wine Jancis Robinson, alongside her team at JR.com, this flagship podcast celebrates the people, places and pours redefining the landscape of wine.Jancis Robinson knows you find wine confusing. This guide is going to help on whatsapp (opens in a new window) Save. Jump to comments section Print this page. Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free.Jancis Robinson. 5 Nov 2022. Free for all. Rhône. Chateauneuf-du-Pape. Grenache. Garnacha. Spain. Elusive inspiration. Free for all. Rhône. Chateauneuf-du-Pape. Grenache. Garnacha. Spain. You may not be able to taste it, but you can admire it. See Glorious Garnachas for some of the wines inspired by where this sign leads.Jancis Robinson. 40,533 likes · 711 talking about this. Honest, independent and insider perspectives on wine from the team at https://www.jancisrobinson.com.Piemonte's most friendly wine is Dolcetto, which should burst with fruit while being impressively deep-coloured and, often, quite alcoholic. Dolcetto is particularly useful for growers because, unlike ultra-fussy, late-ripening Nebbiolo, it will ripen even on less favoured sites, even north-facing ones.Octagon Chardonnay 2020 will be released later this year but no Octagon Pinot Noir 2020 was made. A sparkling wine, made from defiantly ripe grapes, is in the wings. Danbury Ridge Chardonnay 2020. £34.95 to £39.40 NYWines of Cambridge, Grape Britannia, Old Bridge, The Finest Bubble, Padstow Wine Co, Hedonism, Swig, Handford …Pinot Noir. The fashionable red burgundy grape is capable of producing divinely scented, gorgeously fruity expressions of place but often unwilling or unable to do so. Pinot Noir is sensitive to the size of crop it is expected to produce, and many vapid examples exemplify an over-demanding yield. It ripens relatively early ( Chardonnay and ...2012. Looks good for the Rhône, against the trend of the year in Europe at large. It is defined by lower than average potential alcohol – indeed some chaptalisation was practised. Acidities are also generally below the norm, while tannins are more pronounced than in 2011. As they age, 2012 is proving to be a very inconsistent vintage.Actress. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Jancis Robinson was born on 22 April 1950 in Cumbria, England, UK. She is a writer and actress, known for Food & Drink (1982), Drop …Bordeaux 2022 – a guide. Links to all our coverage of this promising vintage. Gavin Quinney's image of a parched-looking vineyard in Pomerol, taken on 18 August 2022, is a reminder of the key characteristics of the 2022 growing season: heat and drought. We will be tasting and reporting on virtually all the wines likely to be of importance in ...Perhaps the most wonderful thing about Nebbiolo is its perfume. The wine is typically intensely aromatic, developing the most extraordinarily haunting bouquet in which, variously, roses, autumn undergrowth, woodsmoke, violets and tar can often be found – together with a greater variety of other ingredients than most other grapes.Until the 1990s very few wine lovers outside Austria had even heard of Grüner Veltliner. Today, no self-respecting restaurant wine list, whether in New York or Hong Kong, can afford to be without at least one example of this, Austria's signature white wine grape. I would submit that this is only partly because of Grüner Veltliner's undoubted inherent …Today such big négociants as remain, the likes of Bouchard Père et Fils, Drouhin, Faiveley and Jadot, are as fastidious as anyone about quality, often oversee work in the vineyard, many of them their own (well over 90% of their needs in the case of Faiveley), as well as making wine. But there is an increasing number of newer producers …Loom, Long Yarn Pinot Noir 2021 Adelaide Hills (13.5%) Unlike many Pinots, this one is savoury rather than sweet. Attractive red for drinking without food. £19.99 Virgin Wines. Neudorf, Tom’s ...NINGXIA – MOST PROMISING WINES. He Lan Qing Xue, Jaibeilan Grand Reserve 2009 Ningxia. This wine, made by Jing Zhang, pictured above, at the government-run model winery, famously won a trophy in last year's Decanter World Wine Awards. The special 'red footprints' bottling is even better and won the Ningxia Wine Awards I judged …Pinot Grigio. This white-wine-producing mutation of Pinot Noir is enjoying a wave of popularity perhaps greater than it has ever known, and certainly on a wider geographical scale, even if it is relatively rarely known by its true French name Pinot Gris. Until recently Pinot Gris was probably known mainly in Alsace (as Tokay d'Alsace ...Mar 1, 2024 · A bright, refreshing Garnacha from Catalunya, Spain, from just €8.60, £15.53, or... 1 Mar 2024. Jancis Robinson. Wines of the week. Pairing off orange wine. 21 March 2019 We're republishing this useful and revelatory guide free in our Throwback Thursday series. 8 March 2019 Tam shares her experience of finding food matches for an amber nectar. Last weekend we opened a bottle of Vine Revival’s 150-year-old Muscat, vinified as an orange wine.Actress. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Jancis Robinson was born on 22 April 1950 in Cumbria, England, UK. She is a writer and actress, known for Food & Drink (1982), Drop …Palomino Fino was once widely planted in South Africa but most of the wine is used for distilling or basic blends. It was widely planted in Galicia once. Sometimes shortened to just Palomino but properly named Palomino Fino, to distinguish it from the coarser Palomino Basto it has replaced, this is the sherry grape, grown around Jerez de la ... Tempranillo is best known as the dominant grape of red rioja, Spain's most famous wine. To make a parallel with the most celebrated blended red wine in the world, red bordeaux, Tempranillo plays the Cabernet Sauvignon part while the much juicier, fruitier Garnacha (known in France as Grenache) plays the role of plumper blending partner Merlot. Jancis Robinson. 1 Jan 2015. Free for all. Lebanon. RIP Serge Hochar. Free for all. Lebanon. Bad news travels horribly fast. Thanks to a call from an audibly shaken Michael Broadbent, I was given to understand that Serge Hochar of Chateau Musar suffered a fatal accident while swimming on a New Year’s holiday in Acapulco, Mexico to ...Wines for special medical conditions. Diabetics should take care to choose bone dry wines, for example Chablis, Muscadet, Sancerre or Pouilly-Fumé, Fino and Manzanilla sherry and most European red wines – so long as they are relatively low in alcohol. Wines sold specifically as Diabetic are usually low in both sugar and alcohol.Inert glass bottles – however heavy, fragile and wasteful of space – are likely to continue to be the ideal package for fine wine that benefits from ageing, but there is now a host of alternatives for the sort of everyday wine that accounts for the great majority of all wine sold. See my tasting notes from the alternative packaging wine ...The Vinho Verde region in the far north west, famous for light, dry whites, for example, is one of the wine world's wettest, while the Douro Valley to its immediate south east is one of the driest during the crucial growing season. This extraordinarily arid, harsh valley is responsible for Portugal's second greatest gift to the wine world, port ...Tempranillo is best known as the dominant grape of red rioja, Spain's most famous wine. To make a parallel with the most celebrated blended red wine in the world, red bordeaux, Tempranillo plays the Cabernet Sauvignon part while the much juicier, fruitier Garnacha (known in France as Grenache) plays the role of plumper blending partner Merlot.Tuscany is essentially red wine country. Various noble and/or well-funded estates have tried to make copies of white burgundy, Loire Sauvignon Blanc and even condrieu, and there are various nondescript Trebbianos to be drunk strictly within the region itself, but there are few whites worthy of export. The most interesting Tuscan dry white wine ...Chile is a particularly enthusiastic exporter of bulk wine and earns the highest average price per litre for it. According to the OIV, the global wine statistics-gatherer, the total volume of wine shipped around the world in bulk rose 61% between 2005 and 2012 to represent more than 40% of all exported wine. That date 2005 is significant.The progeny of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc, is the world's most famous red wine grape, and most planted of any colour. The 'chocolate' to Chardonnay ' s 'vanilla', Cabernet is much more positively flavoured than Chardonnay, and ripens much later, so tends to be planted in rather warmer areas. The great distinction of the wine it produces ...Pairing off orange wine. 21 March 2019 We're republishing this useful and revelatory guide free in our Throwback Thursday series. 8 March 2019 Tam shares her experience of finding food matches for an amber nectar. Last weekend we opened a bottle of Vine Revival’s 150-year-old Muscat, vinified as an orange wine. Jancis Robinson. Writer: Food & Drink. Jancis Robinson was born on 22 April 1950 in Cumbria, England, UK. She is a writer and actress, known for Food & Drink (1982), Drop the Dead Donkey (1990) and Biography (1987). In my 1986 book Vines, Grapes and Wines (Reben Trauben Weine, Hallwag 1987 in German) – the world's first consumer guide to wine grapes I believe – I divided them into three categories: Classic, Major and Other (Klassische, Wichtige and Sonstige). Many wine lovers at the time were doubtless puzzled that I included Chenin Blanc in the first category. Pinot Noir. The fashionable red burgundy grape is capable of producing divinely scented, gorgeously fruity expressions of place but often unwilling or unable to do so. Pinot Noir is sensitive to the size of crop it is expected to produce, and many vapid examples exemplify an over-demanding yield. It ripens relatively early ( Chardonnay and ... Learn about Jancis Robinson, a British wine writer and critic who is one of the most influential commentators in the business. See her wine ratings, scores, and …Jancis Robinson was born on 22 April 1950 in Cumbria, England, UK. She is a writer and actress, known for Food & Drink (1982), Drop the Dead Donkey (1990) and Biography (1987). Menu. Movies. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight.Jancis Robinson. 25 Jun 2011. Free for all. Italy. Puglia. Getting to grips with Puglia. Free for all. Italy. Puglia. This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See my reviews of 232 current Puglian wines in …2016. Hail, frost and mildew all made 2016 an extremely difficult year for makers of red burgundy. Yields were universally low, and the fruit had less concentration than in 2015. Beyond that, generalisations are impossible due to the complicated meteorological patterns throughout the year, creating very varied conditions in each sub-region.Jancis Robinson. Published 2006. This is a fully revised, updated and expanded edition of one of my most useful books, the one I've come to call Oxford Lite – a full colour, beautifully designed, bells-and-whistles introduction to wine designed for those who don't necessarily know anything at all about it – but all ...Accordingly, France’s total plantings of Mourvèdre increased eightfold in the last three decades of the 20th century and Mourvèdre is now an increasingly important ingredient in reds made around Châteauneuf-du-Pape, adding considerable flesh to the blend, typically representing 10% of a blend dominated by Grenache with a bit of Syrah too.Nov 6, 2012 · Combining Jancis Robinson's worldview and nose for good writing and good wines with Julia Harding's research, expertise, and attention to detail plus Dr. Vouillamoz's unique level of scholarship, Wine Grapes offers essential and original information in greater depth and breadth than has ever been available before. This is a book for wine ... In the event, Nyetimber’s prestige cuvée 1086, a white and a rosé, was launched almost two years later than that, last month, in a flurry of gold, candelabra, crimson roses and a publicist’s guest list at the Ritz in London. I would guess that the delay was because Nyetimber’s current owner, Dutchman Eric Heerema, took so long to make ...A recent appellation, Languedoc, may contain a blend of wines from anywhere in the entire Languedoc-Roussillon regions. This is red wine country, although small amounts of rosé (particularly from Cinsaut, Syrah and Grenache) and increasingly interesting whites are made (from a cocktail of varieties including Grenache Blanc, Bourboulenc, Rolle ...Jancis Robinson – An Understanding of Wine. 25 online lessons that will turn you into a knowledgeable wine drinker, help you choose the right bottle, and familiarise you with current issues in the world of wine over 5 hours and 50 minutes … Books. 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Dec 23, 2023 · Jancis Robinson. December 22 2023. Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. My leading impression of this year has been that prices of mainstream... . Deltadentalaz
jorsantNov 6, 2012 · Combining Jancis Robinson's worldview and nose for good writing and good wines with Julia Harding's research, expertise, and attention to detail plus Dr. Vouillamoz's unique level of scholarship, Wine Grapes offers essential and original information in greater depth and breadth than has ever been available before. This is a book for wine ... Beginner Enthusiast Expert. © Debora Szpilman. 1. Is it true that the second cheapest bottle on a wine list generally has the biggest mark-up? This is an urban myth, …But the youngest of these Margaret River Chardonnays were already very appealing and clearly already drinkable, whereas young white burgundy can be notoriously slow to reveal itself. The second tasting even more clearly demonstrated how well these wines stack up as alternatives to white burgundy, for decades regarded as the classic dry …When the weather is disobliging, as in 1984, 1989, 1992, 1998 and 2002, no San Leonardo is produced. Frost destroyed half of the 2017 crop. But virtually any vintage of the principal wine, generally made from about 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Carmenère and 10% Merlot, is beautifully low-key and like the most refined red bordeaux imaginable. The best-value French Syrah, by far, is a Crozes-Hermitage, from the outlying vineyards of Hermitage, made by one of the region's many ambitious producers. Graillot is an obvious example, although Pochon and Belle are also reliable. They make ultra-glossy, juicier, earlier-maturing cousins of Hermitage. Fermented with wild yeast, one-third in barrel and two-thirds in stainless steel, before ageing on fine lees in 500-litre third-fill and fourth-fill Hungarian barrels. TA 7.8 g/l, RS 8.4 g/l. Sharp, bright, edgy, packed with fruit but no frivolous sweetness. A melange of green, orange and yellow citrus.In 2018, the official harvest of wine grapes from the vineyards was 182,569 tonnes, of which wineries processed 151,938 tonnes (giving 1.04 million hl/27.5 million gal) and the rest going to home-made wines. Forecasts for 2019 suggest that wine production was down to 908,000 hl from 126,800 tonnes, so a further decrease.Unexpectedly for a wine that is quintessentially light and white, champagne is made from predominantly black grapes. Less than 30% of Champagne's 34,000 ha (84,000 acres) of neat, low, rows of densely planted vines are light-skinned Chardonnay, the white burgundy grape. The red burgundy grape Pinot Noir is planted on almost 40% of Champagne's ...They also know that Semillon grapes, underrated in much of the world, can produce arguably much more interesting, subtle and long-lived dry white wines than the Sauvignon Blanc that is so often grown alongside – not least in Sauternes and Barsac where the standard recipe is 80% Semillon to 20% Sauvignon Blanc plus a dash of the local …Aim the screw down the centre of the cork. It can help to stand the bottle on a flat surface, holding it steady, while inserting the screw, and to jam it between your knees while pulling (so to speak). As with modern business, leverage is all. Synthetic corks can be particularly intractable. You may find this pictorial guide to using a wide ...This is an extremely partial list of female winemakers whose work I admire. Lalou Bize-Leroy, Domaine Leroy, Burgundy. Brigitte Chevalier, Domaine de Cébène, Languedoc. Cathy Corison, Napa Valley. Vanya Cullen, Cullen, Western Australia. Véronique Drouhin, Burgundy and Oregon. Elisabetta Foradori, Foradori, Trentino, Italy.Jancis Robinson. 1 Dec 2018. Free for all. UK wine merchants. red wine. Festive reds. Free for all. UK wine merchants. red wine. Reds for drinking over the festive season, a follow-up to these dry whites. A version of this article is published by the Financial Times.Peter M F Sichel – from CIA to Blue Nun. This is a rather longer version of an article published by the Financial Times. Who else could subtitle their autobiography ‘ Vintner, Prisoner, Soldier, Spy’ other than Peter M F Sichel, the tall 93-year-old New York grandee. Nor can anyone else claim senior membership of two sorts of CIA, the ...In 1891, when wine production in the rest of Europe had plummeted thanks to the predations of phylloxera, Mallorca had 30,000 hectares (74,130 acres) of vines churning out wine that was exported to fill the gap, but the vine-guzzling insect arrived eventually and by 1902 there were just 3,000 ha (7,410 acres).Jancis Robinson has been writing and broadcasting about wine since 1975, and has been the FT’s wine correspondent since 1989. Her principal occupation …Last month, along with my fellow members of the RHWC, I spent a morning in the cellars under the Palace tasting blind 31 whites and 31 reds submitted as potential wines for this year's royal receptions at prices from £4.12 a bottle for a Rosso Piceno from Italy to £7.50 for Justerini & Brooks' favourite white Mâcon-Uchizy. Hardly extravagant.Some favourite South African wines. In the UK, Handford Wines and Bancroft Wines have particularly good selections, and SA Wines and Museum Wines are South Africa specialists. Ataraxia Sauvignon Blanc 2021 Hemel-en-Aarde Ridge 13%. £18.49 Bancroft Wines. Baleia Sauvignon Blanc 2021 Cape South Coast 13.2%. £13.99 …James Lawther MW. James has been a Bordeaux-based wine writer since 1996. He cut his teeth in the wine trade in Paris in the 1980s with Steven Spurrier at Caves de la Madeleine then passed the MW exam in 1993. He was a long-time contributing editor to Decanter and contributes to The World Atlas of Wine, The Oxford Companion to Wine and Hugh ...Barbera is an easy vine to grow, and in the south of Italy is treasured for its usefully high level of acidity, so is it is widely planted not just in Piemonte. It is by far the most common grape in Lombardy around Milan, particularly in Oltrepò Pavese where it comes in every imaginable shade of crimson and degree of fizziness.Jancis Robinson. Wines of the week. Heirloom Pinot Noir, Adelaide Hills. The rarest of them all: bargain Pinot Noir. From AU$26.24, $21.99, £19.41... 13 Oct 2023. Richard Hemming MW. Tasting articles. Beyond Bordeaux – 2023 releases. A hard-nosed assessment of the Bordeaux trade's current attempt to widen its...Jun 17, 2023 · The Sardine, Submarine Red 2021 Tejo 12.5% Portugal £6.99. Los Tontos Sabios, Organic Field Blend 2021 Vino de la Tierra Castilla 13.5% Spain £6.99*. Château Oumsiyat, Mijana 2019 Bekaa Valley ... Even his basic Etna Rosso, a wonderfully characterful fruity mouthful that he is able to sell for just 4.50 euros at the cellar door, is upwards of 14% alcohol and his special contrada bottlings are sometimes nearly 16%. But they have great freshness and balance, as though those lava deposits are reining in mere ethyl alcohol.Well inside that bend are Gamay-dominated Chateaumeillant and St-Pourçain-sur-Sioule, which make wines from a wide range of grape varieties, with the Loire's hallmark of high acidity and relatively light body. The Loire is France's most varied, and neglected, wine region making crisp, elegant whites and reds as well as sweet and sparkling wines.Jancis Robinson – An Understanding of Wine. 25 online lessons that will turn you into a knowledgeable wine drinker, help you choose the right bottle, and familiarise you with current issues in the world of wine over 5 hours and 50 minutes …The rise of typicity. Typicité (typicity) is a modern addition to the French language. The use of typicité emerged in the early 1980s and was proposed by agronomist Jean Salette as a way to counter the international competition that the French wine world was suddenly facing. It was articulated as a very positive notion, that would help the ...Apr 11, 2020 · The whole thing about natural wine, the increasingly popular ‘lo-fi’ wine made with minimal intervention, was supposed to be that it was made by a band of brothers, and the odd sister, all of them united by a common philosophy but not one they wanted to be strictly defined. Not for them the multi-clause strictures of the appellation ... SUPERIOR SAUVIGNON BLANCS. De Grendel Sauvignon Blanc 2022 Cape Town 13.5%. £11.99 Waitrose. Terrapura, Gran Reserva Sauvignon Blanc 2022 San Antonio, Chile 13%. £11.99 Waitrose. Blank Canvas ...Bordeaux produced 410 million litres of wine in 2022 (108 million gallons), and, although this was more than in 2013, 2017 and 2021, this was a relatively small crop. It is the equivalent of almost 550 million bottles, with a modest yield of around 37 hl/ha (roughly 2 ton/acre). Bordeaux 2022 harvest may be up 9% on 2021's 377 million litres ...Inert glass bottles – however heavy, fragile and wasteful of space – are likely to continue to be the ideal package for fine wine that benefits from ageing, but there is now a host of alternatives for the sort of everyday wine that accounts for the great majority of all wine sold. See my tasting notes from the alternative packaging wine ...SUPERIOR SAUVIGNON BLANCS. De Grendel Sauvignon Blanc 2022 Cape Town 13.5%. £11.99 Waitrose. Terrapura, Gran Reserva Sauvignon Blanc 2022 San Antonio, Chile 13%. £11.99 Waitrose. Blank Canvas ...Jancis Robinson. March 19 2021. Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The annual cycle of vineyards has always seemed to be …Even his basic Etna Rosso, a wonderfully characterful fruity mouthful that he is able to sell for just 4.50 euros at the cellar door, is upwards of 14% alcohol and his special contrada bottlings are sometimes nearly 16%. But they have great freshness and balance, as though those lava deposits are reining in mere ethyl alcohol.2016. Hail, frost and mildew all made 2016 an extremely difficult year for makers of red burgundy. Yields were universally low, and the fruit had less concentration than in 2015. Beyond that, generalisations are impossible due to the complicated meteorological patterns throughout the year, creating very varied conditions in each sub-region.Wine Critic Jancis Robinson's Latest Picks and Next Moves. Leisure. Drinks. Drinking With Jancis. The world’s most influential wine critic would like to have a …Octagon Chardonnay 2020 will be released later this year but no Octagon Pinot Noir 2020 was made. A sparkling wine, made from defiantly ripe grapes, is in the wings. Danbury Ridge Chardonnay 2020. £34.95 to £39.40 NYWines of Cambridge, Grape Britannia, Old Bridge, The Finest Bubble, Padstow Wine Co, Hedonism, Swig, Handford …Piquette is a third wine. The first wine is from free-run juice, the second from pressed grapes, and the third, from the leftover grape skins and seeds themselves. Piquette’s North American pioneer is Todd Cavallo from Wild Arc Farm in the Hudson Valley region of New York state. Todd’s family began farming vegetables and herbs, …Apr 3, 2020 · Jancis Robinson is the FT’s wine columnist and founder-editor of ‘The Oxford Companion to Wine’ Listen to our podcast, Culture Call , where FT editors and special guests discuss life and art ... Jim Clendenen 1953–2021. The Wild Boy of Au Bon Climat will be wild no more. There is news that will send shockwaves throughout the wine world. Jim Clendenen, ‘the mind behind’ Au Bon Climat in Santa Barbara County as he took to describing himself, died in his sleep on Saturday night. He was only 68 but, after a truly hectic life of ...The Zuccardis have a total of 280 ha in the Uco Valley at up to 1,400 m on several sites. The one in Altamira they call Piedra Infinita because the stones they had to clear to make way for the vines filled a thousand truckloads. And still the vineyard is dotted with giant cairns of stones the size of suitcases.Actress. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Jancis Robinson was born on 22 April 1950 in Cumbria, England, UK. She is a writer and actress, known for Food & Drink (1982), Drop …Jan 1, 2015 · RIP Serge Hochar. Bad news travels horribly fast. Thanks to a call from an audibly shaken Michael Broadbent, I was given to understand that Serge Hochar of Chateau Musar suffered a fatal accident while swimming on a New Year’s holiday in Acapulco, Mexico to celebrate his 75th birthday last November. By the time of the call about an hour ago ... Wines for special medical conditions. Diabetics should take care to choose bone dry wines, for example Chablis, Muscadet, Sancerre or Pouilly-Fumé, Fino and Manzanilla sherry and most European red wines – so long as they are relatively low in alcohol. Wines sold specifically as Diabetic are usually low in both sugar and alcohol. They also know that Semillon grapes, underrated in much of the world, can produce arguably much more interesting, subtle and long-lived dry white wines than the Sauvignon Blanc that is so often grown alongside – not least in Sauternes and Barsac where the standard recipe is 80% Semillon to 20% Sauvignon Blanc plus a dash of the local …Message. Please send me Jancis's weekly emails (70% of members opt for them - and we have one of the highest 'read rates' in the industry). We would never share your contact details with anyone else. Much the fastest way to get a response is to send us an email via the form above. If that's impossible, you can call +44 (0)845 056 4117 and leave ...Tempranillo is best known as the dominant grape of red rioja, Spain's most famous wine. To make a parallel with the most celebrated blended red wine in the world, red bordeaux, Tempranillo plays the Cabernet Sauvignon part while the much juicier, fruitier Garnacha (known in France as Grenache) plays the role of plumper blending partner Merlot.Jancis Robinson. Jancis Robinson is a British wine writer and critic who rose to fame in the mid-1980s after becoming the first MW (Master of Wine) from outside the wine trade. She is now one of the most influential commentators in the business. Robinson writes a weekly column for the Financial Times as well as running her own website ...Merlot conventionally makes lush, plummy, velvety wine that can soften Cabernet's more austere frame and, usefully, matures much faster. Very much a wine of the times, it enjoyed enormous popularity in the United States in the 1990s and early 2000s – until usurped by Pinot Noir. Merlot's homeland is Bordeaux where it is the most important ...Jancis Robinson. 5 Nov 2022. Free for all. Rhône. Chateauneuf-du-Pape. Grenache. Garnacha. Spain. Elusive inspiration. Free for all. Rhône. Chateauneuf-du-Pape. Grenache. Garnacha. Spain. You may not be able to taste it, but you can admire it. See Glorious Garnachas for some of the wines inspired by where this sign leads.Gewurztraminer. Germans spell it Gewürztraminer. Competes with Sauvignon Blanc as the beginner's grape – the one that is easiest for a newcomer to wine to recognise. With Sauvignon it's all about that unforgettable smell and a virtual absence of colour. With Gewurz, it's all about another unforgettable smell and one of the deepest colours of ... Wine maps of the world. Since Hugh Johnson launched The World Atlas of Wine in 1971, it has sold over 4.7m copies worldwide in eight comprehensively revised editions, four of them co-authored by Jancis. Enjoy exclusive access to these fully searchable maps from the most recent, 2019 edition. A. Wine maps of the world. Since Hugh Johnson launched The World Atlas of Wine in 1971, it has sold over 4.7m copies worldwide in eight comprehensively revised editions, four of them co-authored by Jancis. Enjoy exclusive access to these fully searchable maps from the most recent, 2019 edition. A. Pinot Grigio. This white-wine-producing mutation of Pinot Noir is enjoying a wave of popularity perhaps greater than it has ever known, and certainly on a wider geographical scale, even if it is relatively rarely known by its true French name Pinot Gris. Until recently Pinot Gris was probably known mainly in Alsace (as Tokay d'Alsace ...Laurent-Perrier 2007. £46.99 Ocado, £50 Laithwaite's. Taittinger 2009. £45 The Finest Bubble, £51.95 Lea & Sandeman. Moët & Chandon 2009. £54.95 The Finest Bubble. See tasting notes on Purple Pages, particularly this tour of nine major champagne houses, a trek made in preparation for the event described above.Samantha Cole-Johnson. Sam, Senior Editor US, has been writing for JancisRobinson.com since her Diary of a Willamette cellar rat series in 2019. Since then, she has worked five harvests (bouncing hemispheres), collected her DipWSET, been shortlisted once for a Roederer International Wine Writers Award and twice for the IWSC …But the youngest of these Margaret River Chardonnays were already very appealing and clearly already drinkable, whereas young white burgundy can be notoriously slow to reveal itself. The second tasting even more clearly demonstrated how well these wines stack up as alternatives to white burgundy, for decades regarded as the classic dry … 2016. Hail, frost and mildew all made 2016 an extremely difficult year for makers of red burgundy. Yields were universally low, and the fruit had less concentration than in 2015. Beyond that, generalisations are impossible due to the complicated meteorological patterns throughout the year, creating very varied conditions in each sub-region. James Lawther MW. James has been a Bordeaux-based wine writer since 1996. He cut his teeth in the wine trade in Paris in the 1980s with Steven Spurrier at Caves de la Madeleine then passed the MW exam in 1993. He was a long-time contributing editor to Decanter and contributes to The World Atlas of Wine, The Oxford Companion to Wine and Hugh ...Castello ColleMassari Rosso Riserva 2015 Montecucco. A southern Tuscan bargain for your delectation – practically wherever you are. From €12.90, 15.50 Swiss francs, £14.99, CA$25.25, 2,330 yen, 149 Danish kroner, AU$43, 4,043 roubles, HK$1,060 for six, $144 for six, SG$307 for six. Find this wine. This seriously …2016. Hail, frost and mildew all made 2016 an extremely difficult year for makers of red burgundy. Yields were universally low, and the fruit had less concentration than in 2015. Beyond that, generalisations are impossible due to the complicated meteorological patterns throughout the year, creating very varied conditions in each sub-region.A new initiative set to reduce wine-bottle weights considerably was launched with an online presentation yesterday, and proved extremely popular.. A growing group of important retailers have signed up to the Sustainable Wine Roundtable Bottle Weight Accord – an agreement to reduce the average weight of the 750-ml still-wine bottles they …Until the 1990s very few wine lovers outside Austria had even heard of Grüner Veltliner. Today, no self-respecting restaurant wine list, whether in New York or Hong Kong, can afford to be without at least one example of this, Austria's signature white wine grape. I would submit that this is only partly because of Grüner Veltliner's undoubted inherent …Hungary. Like all wine-producing countries in Eastern Europe (and there are many), Hungary is still in the throes of restructuring its wine business in the post-communist era. Until 1989 wine was viewed as simply a commodity like grain or potatoes to be supplied, according to long-term economic plans, to Hungarians and, particularly, Russians.Laurent-Perrier 2007. £46.99 Ocado, £50 Laithwaite's. Taittinger 2009. £45 The Finest Bubble, £51.95 Lea & Sandeman. Moët & Chandon 2009. £54.95 The Finest Bubble. See tasting notes on Purple Pages, particularly this tour of nine major champagne houses, a trek made in preparation for the event described above.Even his basic Etna Rosso, a wonderfully characterful fruity mouthful that he is able to sell for just 4.50 euros at the cellar door, is upwards of 14% alcohol and his special contrada bottlings are sometimes nearly 16%. But they have great freshness and balance, as though those lava deposits are reining in mere ethyl alcohol. Tempranillo is best known as the dominant grape of red rioja, Spain's most famous wine. To make a parallel with the most celebrated blended red wine in the world, red bordeaux, Tempranillo plays the Cabernet Sauvignon part while the much juicier, fruitier Garnacha (known in France as Grenache) plays the role of plumper blending partner Merlot. Jancis Robinson. 11 Apr 2020. Free for all. natural wine. sulphites. labelling. Natural wine defined. Free for all. natural wine. sulphites. labelling. A slightly shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See also Natural v industrial wine, which puts the topic in historical perspective. Books. Some of these books are quite old now; the most recently published volumes are at the top. We give links to buy all of them from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com but please also check out bookshop.org, the online bookshop operated by independent book retailers. Jancis writes a weekly column on wine for the Financial Times and has co-authored several internationally renowned books on wine, including The World Atlas of Wine and The Oxford Companion to Wine. In 1984, Jancis was the first person outside of the wine trade to pass the rigorous Master of Wine exams and from there her reputation has only grown. Wines for special medical conditions. Diabetics should take care to choose bone dry wines, for example Chablis, Muscadet, Sancerre or Pouilly-Fumé, Fino and Manzanilla sherry and most European red wines – so long as they are relatively low in alcohol. Wines sold specifically as Diabetic are usually low in both sugar and alcohol. The warmer the wine the more smelly it will be. 3. Low temperatures emphasise acidity, bitterness and tannin. 4. High temperatures minimize them. The corollary of rule 1 is that if you find yourself with a wine that tastes (i.e. smells) truly horrid, but you have to serve or drink it, then chill it to pieces.Letters from Kyiv. 22 December 2023 – Ukraine, far, far too many days. Dear Friends and Partners, As the holiday season approaches, our hearts are filled with warmth and joy, reflecting on the moments we have shared. Through the years, this time has meant our exchange of festive cheers through photos and videos, a tradition we hold dear. Professional. $239.99. per year. The same 48-hour preview enjoyed by our gold members, plus permission for limited commercial reuse of individual tasting notes. . Join. . 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