Tuesday, June 07, 2005

New, unauthorised, biography on Parker

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Robert Parker, the world’s biggest wine guru, is the subject of a new unauthorised biography. The book is called “The Emperor of Wine: The R...

The EU farm commissioner wants to cut wine subsidies

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The EU farm commissioner, the Dane Mariann Fischer Boel, has said in an interview in the Financial times that she wants to cut the subsidies...

Bergerac struck by hail: hundreds of hectares destroyed

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On May 13 in the after-noon hail descended on Bergerac. hail can be devastating, destroying leaves, buds, and branches. It is estimated that...

Amazon.com starts selling wine

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Amazon.com has started a co-operation with Wine.com to sell wine. They hope to get more momentum in wine sales over the internet than anyone...

Alsace wine production 2004

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Some statistics from CIVA (www.vinsalsace.com): Most popular grape varieties: 22% Riesling 21% Pinot blanc 18% Gewurztraminer 14...

Italy pulls out of Vinexpo

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The Italian umbrella organisation ICE has decided to cancel its participation in Vinexpo at the last minute. The cancellation is du to a con...

Better to prevent than cure? New solution: Symbios

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A Portugese cork research institute (CTCOR) has developed a new method to prevent altogether the formation of TCA, thus eliminating cork tai...

Dream Taste – a new cure for corked wine

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A Burgundian company (Embag with Gérard Michel and Laurent Villaume) has developed a cure for wines with cork taint. You pour the wine into ...
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Recommended Restaurant, Beaune: Le Bistro Bourguignon

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Nice wine bar and restaurant in the main town in Burgundy with a very ambitious chef (even sometimes a bit over ambitious…). On Saturdays th...

Recommended Restaurant, Bordeaux: Le Jardin des Gastronomes

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Facing the old church Saint Pierre in the Old Town in Bordeaux you can find this very good value-for-money restaurant (and many others on th...

Recommended Restaurant: Louis Vin

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A new wine restaurant with a good wine list with a certain emphasis on organic wines. You can for example find the full selection of wines f...

Recommended Wine Producer: Domaine Mouréou, Madiran

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One of the best estates in Madiran, owned by Patrick Ducournau. Ducourneau is also known for being the person who invented micro-oxygenation...

Recommended Wine Producer: Domaine de l’Hortus, Coteaux du Languedoc – Pic Saint Loup

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Framed by the majestic Pic Saint Loup and Montagne de l’Hortus, this vineyard is less than an hour’s drive north of Montpellier. Jean Orliac...
Monday, May 23, 2005

Bettane & Desseauve launches new web site about quality wines

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Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve were two of the leading names at La Revue des Vins de France (France’s leading wine magazine). They lef...
Sunday, May 22, 2005

New top level cooperation in Northern Rhône

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Alain Voge is one of the very best producers in Cornas, just south of Hermitage. He is one of the persons that have led the renaissance of t...

Snow in Hermitage

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On April 16 and 17 (seems like ages ago now) Hermitage had, very unexpectedly, heavy snow fall. For two days we had (we happened to be there...

Miguel Torres, interviewed in La Revue des Vins de France:

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Quote from an interview in La Revue des Vins de France: “We [the wine trade] are going through a crisis. There’s been excess everywhere. In...

Oak chips in Bordeaux wine?

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Oak chips in Bordeaux wine is not permitted today. The new boss of CIVB (the Bordeaux producers’ association) has proposed that it should be...

Swedish opinion about the alcohol monopoly

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According to a recent survey 55% of Swedes are positive to keeping the monopoly, 35% are negative and 10% don’t know. The survey was commiss...

New classification in Graves

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As we have mentioned previously in the Brief the process has started to change the classification in Graves/Pessac-Léognan. La Revue des Vin...