Bordeaux 2020 release prices June 21 St-Estèphe second growth Château Cos d’Estournel’s 2020 release was being sold by the trade for ÂŁ1,800 per 12-bottle case, according to Liv-ex, 31.6% higher than the current market price of the estate’s 2019 wine. Also released were the 2020 Blanc de Cos d’Estournel at ÂŁ96/bottle — a ‘gastronomic and […]
Before we dive into 2020, let’s recall a previous vintage in the RhĂ´ne — the tipping-point 2003. Before this year, hot vintages had come and gone, but local winemakers all agreed 2003 was unbearable. The plants couldn’t cope; leaves desiccated on the vines. The resulting wines were often strange, jammy confections. No-one wants to see […]
If you’re here, leafing through the pages of Decanter, it’s because you like wine. Why? Wine gives us sensual pleasure while lifting our spirits and bringing us (at least in non-Covid times) closer together. But that’s not all. Unlike most simple sensual pleasures, wine comes cloaked in stories: about who made it, about where it […]
The world’s most southerly wine region, Central Otago covers a large area of diverse soils from broken schist and clays to heavy silt loams, gravels and light sands. Overlay that with a wide range of climatic conditionsand it is easy to understand why Central Otago produces such a diverse range of Pinot Noir styles. The […]
The following list details 10 producers creating Portuguese icon wines with two tasting notes for each producer listed at the end; the first, higher-scoring wine is their must-try icon wine; the second is their benchmark style. Scroll down to see tasting notes and scores for Portuguese icon wines to try See tasting notes and scores […]
Valpolicella is the ‘umbrella’ term for a red wine denomination in which 5 different DOC/G wines can be produced from the same vineyard using the same grape varieties, mainly Corvina, Corvinone and Rondinella, all of which are autochthonous. Where is Valpolicella produced? The area, a series of valleys running north to south in the foothills […]
Investing in italian wine: The next rising stars? With increasing numbers of collectors seeking opportunities from Bolgheri to Barolo, Italy has arguably been the star of the fine wine market in the past two years. An exciting run of vintages, notably the back-to-back successes of 2015 and 2016 in Piedmont and Tuscany, has been supercharged […]
Walking 130 meters up uneven steps along the 45-degree incline of Champagne’s warmest slope — the Clos des Goisses — Champagne house director Charles Philipponnat was looking forward to a vertical of vintages reaching back to 1964. Scroll down for Panos Kakaviatos’ Clos des Goisses tasting notes and scores Gripping chalk from the 5.83 hectares […]
Not that long ago you would struggle to catch a glimpse of vines in England. Now, slope after sunny slope is carpeted in vines, in the southeast particularly, with more than 160 wineries open to the public in some form or other. And as wineries have multiplied, producing bottles that are gaining recognition worldwide (total […]
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