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Hors Catégorie: A Bit of Northern Rhone in Northern Oregon
Christophe Baron, most famous for his vineyards in The Rocks, has a new discovery, a very steeply sloped basalt hillside vineyard called Hors Catégorie located on the north fork of the Walla Walla River near the Oregon border with Washington … Continue reading
Posted in Countries and Regions, Great Winemakers, Red Wine, Shiraz, Washington, Wine Articles, Wine Type
Tagged Featured, Oregon, Syrah, Walla Walla
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Graham Beck: Exclusive Focus on Premium Sparkling
Industrialist Graham Beck founded his eponymous vineyard and winery in Robertson in 1983. A few years later Pieter Ferreira joined Graham Beck, making his first sparkling wine (called MCC or Methode Cap Classique in South Africa) in 1991. We visited … Continue reading
Posted in Champagne, Countries and Regions, Great Winemakers, South Africa, Sparkling Wine, Uncategorized, Wine Articles, Wine Type
Tagged feaured, MCC, Pieter Ferreira, Robertson
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Richard Kershaw Lifts Elgin to New Heights
Richard Kershaw, South Africa’s first MW (Master of Wine), worked at wineries around the world (including Simi in California) before becoming winemaker at Mulderbosch and then, in 2012, starting his own eponymous winery in Elgin, South Africa’s coolest growing area. … Continue reading
Posted in Chardonnay, Countries and Regions, Great Winemakers, Pinot Noir, Red Wine, Shiraz, South Africa, Uncategorized, White Wine, Wine Articles, Wine Type
Tagged Chardonnay, Elgin, Featured, Syrah
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Hermann J. Wiemer of the Finger Lakes: A Great American Winery
Hermann J. Wiemer is one of the pioneers of viticulture and winemaking in the Finger Lakes. A native of Bernkastel, Germany, he studied at the world famous Neustadt Viticultural Research Institute, took a winemaking job in the Finger Lakes, and … Continue reading
Posted in Great Winemakers, New York, Red Wine, Sparkling Wine, Uncategorized, White Wine, Wine Articles, Wine Type
Tagged Featured
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Austria’s Talented New Winemakers
While traveling around Austria meeting winemakers and tasting wine for our recently published report Austrian Wine: Diverse Terroir, Exceptional Quality, we met the new generation that has entered Austria’s wine industry in recent years. They work in various capacities, although most … Continue reading
French-Trained Chilean Winemakers: New Releases from Antiyal, Apaltagua, Domus Aurea, Maquis
No country in the Americas has been so strongly influenced by French winemaking as Chile. Aspiring Chilean winemakers go to France to study enology or work the harvests. And French winemakers and winemaking consultants go to Chile to make wine. … Continue reading
Domaine Alice et Olivier de Moor of Chablis
In preparing a new report on Chablis, we recently met up with Alice and Oliver de Moor in Courgis, located about 7 km southwest of Chablis. They started their vineyards 20 years ago with just three parcels [Bel-Air, Clardy, Rosette] … Continue reading
Posted in Chardonnay, Countries and Regions, France, Great Winemakers, Uncategorized, White Wine, Wine Articles, Wine Type
Tagged Bourgogne, Chablis, Courgis, Featured
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Michel Rolland’s New Spanish Wines
Michel Rolland has made wine all over the world, and we’ve tasted his wines in many of the places where we’ve traveled—Argentina, South Africa, and, of course, France. Now, he extends his global reach to a neighboring country, Spain, where … Continue reading
Posted in Countries and Regions, Great Winemakers, Red Wine, Spain, Uncategorized, White Wine, Wine Articles, Wine Type
Tagged Ribera del Duero, Rioja, Rolland, Rueda
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Women Winemakers of Rioja
Women have always played an important role in tending the vines, picking the fruit, and pressing the grapes in Rioja, but in recent years they have also assumed an important role in winemaking. Indeed, no other wine region of the … Continue reading
Posted in Countries and Regions, Great Winemakers, Spain, Uncategorized
Tagged Rioja, Women
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Dr. Konstantin Frank Wines from the New York Finger Lakes
Dr. Konstantin Frank, the creative force behind the establishment of the Dr. Konstantin Frank winery in New York’s Finger Lakes region is one of the wine world’s most colorful wine pioneers. Today the family-run winery is managed by Fred Frank, … Continue reading
Posted in Countries and Regions, Great Winemakers, Sparkling Wine, Uncategorized, White Wine
Tagged Finger Lakes, New York
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