From motor racing and lime production to making red wine in the Rhone valley, Vincent Moreau is clearly a man with a vision. At the age of 37, after selling his successful family business, Vincent headed back to school to retrain as a vigneron. …
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The Couvent des Jacobins is an integral producer in Saint Emilion’s wine history. It’s not very often you get to taste a vertical going back half a century, but while in Bordeaux recently I was lucky enough to do an excellent vertical at one …
If your idea of Beaujolais is an area that produces “gluggable, inconsequential” wine, you should think again. Thus argued renowned wine critic Jamie Goode at a recent Beaujolais event in London. He points to a whole new generation of innovative winemakers looking to make …
Bordeaux’s en primeur week has always struck me as something of a mystery, and perhaps a little old-fashioned. The idea of evaluating wines before they are ready, putting a price on them prematurely and forming an opinion before you’ve even spat the wine into …
The extensive and hugely varied Loire wine region can be difficult to get to grips with, so we’ve put together this Loire Fast Facts feature to provide a clear insight into the region and its wines. As it’s such a large and diverse region, …
This Touraine guide is our Fast Facts feature is designed to give you an introduction to the wine region and wines of this area in the Loire valley, France. Our Touraine guide includes: the essentials of terroir (the soil types, climate, average temperatures, rainfall, …
Burgundy is one of the most emblematic wine regions in the world. Get your head around the terroir essentials in our Burgundy wine region guide and Fast Facts. Our guide to Burgundy includes: the essentials of terroir (the soil types, climate, average temperatures, rainfall, longitude and …
Pretty much everyone has heard of Sancerre, the fresh Sauvignon Blanc wine from the Loire. But there is more to the Central Loire than just Sancerre, so we’ve pulled together a Central Loire guide so that you can get to grips with this wine region …
You may be familiar with Muscadet, the emblematic wine of Pays Nantais in the Loire, but did you know that this is an area currently undergoing change? We’ve pulled together this fast facts guide to Pays Nantais to give you the lowdown on this …
If you are studying for your WSET or sommelier exams, the Champagne process can seem a bewildering concept with lots of rules to learn. The CIVC (Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne) has quite rigorous regulations in terms of harvest times, yields and pressing, …
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