“Last year, Napa Valley lost Leslie Rudd, a beloved figure and an anchor in the wine industry. Founder and proprietor of his eponymous Oakville wine estate on Oakville Cross Road’s “Golden Mile” (surrounded by luminaries like Screaming Eagle and Dalla Valle), Rudd was...
“If you're planning a trip to Tel Aviv, Seoul, or Singapore, you may want to factor in a wine budget in advance: The average cost of a bottle of table wine in all three countries is well over $20 USD. In its 2018 Cost of Living index, The Economist Intelligence Unit...
“Fluid thinkers enjoy experimenting with wines. They embrace “natural wines,” and they find entrancing funky flavors that repel more conservative drinkers who thought those faults had been eradicated by modern winemaking. They seek out environmentally friendly wines...
“Claes Bartoldsson is the winemaker for Astad Vingård, a set of vineyards and winery, as well as guest house and restaurant, located about 60 miles (100 kilometers) south of the city of Gothenburg in southwestern Sweden. He and a consulting oenologist from Germany...
“The Japanese wine industry is maturing, gaining new recognition and increasing sales thanks to improving quality. That's led the government to take the first steps toward a true appellation system, noting on labels where grapes were grown. But that's created a...
“Franciacorta is both a wine and a DOCG from Lombardy, Italy. DOCG stands for Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita and is a distinction given to territories producing the highest quality of Italian wine. Because Franciacorta is made by the same method and...
“Experts at Wine Enthusiast magazine have released their picks for the top 10 wine destinations of 2019, and the list includes a few unexpected places. Alongside a few predictable, usual suspects — Beaujolais, France; Seattle, Washington and Maipo Valley, Chile — are...
“Amarone – or more formally Amarone della Valpolicella – will always be thought of as one of Italy’s most important red wines. Given its unique production method, as well as the fact that typical alcohol levels are 15.5% or 16%, Amarone is also one of the most...
“Lavinea produces four Pinot Noirs from four different sites. Allowing the vintage to determine both the vineyard management technique and the winemaking practice is a philosophy she applies uniformly to all four Pinot Noirs. For example, Meunier choses 100%...
“The stories that most moved me in 2018 were from parts of Italy that are less developed and less affluent, but sunnier, more agricultural and more soulfully Italian. In other words, the south. Italy is still going through a decades-long wine renaissance—rediscovering...