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Schiller Wine (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
In a series of articles in the FT, Jancis Robinson presents a selection of good buys for the entertaining season, deliberately concentrated on those wines that are drinking well now, as she writes. There are 4 articles, published in the FT as well as on Jancis Robinson’s web site. White wine on November 29, 2009 Red wine on December 5, 2009 Sparkling wine on 12 Dec, 2009 Strong and sweet wines...
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Élevage (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
There's not a lot of the auxerrois grape grown in Oregon. At a holiday party this evening, I had a taste of the newly released 2008 Adelsheim Auxerrois from the Ribbon Springs Vineyard on Ribbon Ridge. What a delicious and interesting wine. I think Oregon whites are underrated, and this is another great example of that. What the heck is auxerrois? It's pronounced ohk-sair-wah and it's common to the...
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Australian Wine Review (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
The ever unflappable and perceptive Jancis Robinson (who is my favourite wine writer) published a typically stimulating article up on her website www.jancisrobinson.com yesterday, focusing on the move towards 'lighter' red wines (read it here ) a trend that is, to a certain degree, being echoed around the world, even though Australia is largely perceived to be lagging behind. Of particular note is...
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Schiller Wine (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Pictures: Cornelia Schiller in front of Big Ben, London, and Jancis Robinson's web site In a series of articles in the FT, Jancis Robinson presents a selection of good buys for the entertaining season, deliberately concentrated on those wines that are drinking well now, as she writes. There are 4 articles, published in the FT as well as on Jancis Robinson’s web site. White wine on November 28,...
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Living/FYI: Food -- KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The world's vineyards are getting warmer. The English once traded wool for wine, but these days, grapevines are flourishing farther north. Wine critic Jancis Robinson calls British wines “far from a joke now.” Yet in California and Australia, climate change has not only increased the alcohol level in wines but also irrigation woes in the vineyard. Some climate scientists go so far as to predict...
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Jean-Luc Thunevin's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
François Mauss organizes 2 tasting events on December 1st and 2nd in Restaurant Laurent in Paris. The first will be a vertical blind tasting of only one cru; the other is the 1998 vintage: you can already see many pictures of the bottles on his site. The latter tasting already took place at least twice: In April 2001 in Singapore and November 2003 in Villa D’Este in Italie. Valandraud...
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Gristmill (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
by Agence France-Presse Photo: Max xx via FlickrSPAIN—With the Copenhagen climate change summit looming, the world of wine convened on Spain’s Rioja region for a conference in which global warming emerged as the industry’s top concern. “All over the world, alcohol levels are going up,” said British wine critic Jancis Robinson at the WineFuture conference, citing just one...
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TheWineBlog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
There are many wine writers around the world who have discovered the intricacies of the Torrontes grape. This wine is very far from being a traditional white but it is that uniqueness that draws us to it and, hopefully, will draw you to it as well. In North America, names like Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Riesling and even Gewurztraminer are common names to see on the shelves of our local wine shops....
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Schiller Wine (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
I like Bordeaux wines and have quite a number of them in my wine cellar. I find the write up below on different vintages, starting with 1982, by Jancis Robinson very useful for reference when going down into the cellar and deciding which bottle to bring up. Go back a decade for the best bordeaux By Jancis Robinson Published: August 29 2009 02:33 | Last updated: August 29 2009 02:33 An excellent new...
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Schiller Wine (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Jancis Robinson wrote in the FT of last weekend about the concept of appellation, with special reference to Australia, California and South Africa. Most wine-producing countries have families of these appellations, like Russian dolls nesting one inside the other, with the smallest appellations representing the most precise expressions of terroir fitting into larger and larger areas whose wines exhibit...
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Jean-Luc Thunevin's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
We had a meals at the Royal Yacht Club on a private beach 20 minutes from Central. The menu cost 10/15 Euros (without wine) We had a view of the hills, singing birds, a marvelous, tropical vegetation and mist - there is a lot of fog in Hong Kong - buildings and beautiful villas worth millions of Euros. We tasted Blanc N° 2 2006, 3 de Valandraud 2006, Bad Boy 2006 and especially Constance 2006,...
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Gerry Dawes's Spain: An Insider's Guide to Spanish... (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
* * * * * What does Dubai have to do with Spain and especially Spanish wine or food, including the upcoming W ineFuture-Rioja 2009 conference whose (recently "resigned") Director is Pancho Campo, President (recently "resigned') of the Wine Academy, the official organizer of the event? And what does all this have to do with Pancho Campo, Robert M. Parker, Jr., Jancis Robinson, Kevin Zraly,...
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@wedwardes - wine for spice etc. (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Yesterday I competed in the 10th Pol Roger Cup. This event, kindly supported by Pol Roger, and in its its tenth year is a blind wine tasting between three teams of five from four schools - London Business School, INSEAD, Harvard and for the first time with a full set of three teams, Wharton. We tasted (having sniffed and examined visually) four white wines and four reds. Once again we were enormously...
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The Pinotage Club (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Richard Hemming, tasting for Jancis Robinson's site seems to think so. He gave his highest score to Diemersfontein's coffee'n'chocolate Pinotage.The original article is on the restricted part of Jancis's site but Grape magazine has been granted permission to reproduce it here.Hemming tasted Pinotages at the recent South African Mega Tasting in London, however he doesn't appear to have tasted the
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Schiller Wine (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
I have started to cover countries east of the former iron curtain(although Serbs may argue that they were not east of the iron curtain). Serbia on October 2009, 1,5,12 and 19, Hungary on October 2009, 12 and 15 and Poland on October 2009, 21. Today Russia. Wine making during the period of the Soviet Union was concentrated in the South, reflecting the climating conditions there: Crimea in the Ukraine,...
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