Monthly Archives: January 2017
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- January 27, 2017
A Chinese food and restaurant group has bought Domaine de Bellair on Bordeaux’s Right Bank and plans to use the wine to supply its businesses across Asia. Golden Field, a multinational food and drink company based in China and Taiwan, is the latest in a succession of Asian investors in Bordeaux wine. A fee for Domaine […]
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- January 25, 2017
Jane Anson looks beyond proclamations that ‘Bordeaux is back’ and analyses the numbers to see what might be in store for the region’s wines ahead of the 2016 en primeur season, particularly in a UK market preparing to throw itself into the Brexit quagmire. At the end of December 2016, a spate of reports fluttered […]
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- January 25, 2017
Theresa May’s speech on the UK’s Brexit strategy filled in some blanks but left key questions unanswered for wine drinkers, workers, importers and retailers. Prime minister Theresa May confirmed this week that the UK was willing to sacrifice membership of the EU single market and customs union in order to secure greater control over immigration and […]
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- January 25, 2017
Tension is rising in southern France after winemakers staged a day of action, emptying at least one tanker of Spanish wine and blocking a depot used by the wine subsidiary of Carrefour supermarket. Sixty protesters block supermarket-owned depot near Nîmes They then attacked a tanker suspected of carrying Spanish wine […]
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- January 23, 2017
US officials have risked re-opening old wounds with Champagne houses by picking a ‘California Champagne’ for president Donald Trump’s inauguration lunch. See the full menu below – and it doesn’t include bottles from the Trump winery in Virginia. ▪California ‘Champagne’, plus Cabernet and Chardonnay make the line-up California wines will be the toast of president […]
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- January 19, 2017
Champagne has seen its global growth trajectory dented after fewer people popped corks in the UK following the country’s EU referendum, show preliminary figures. – Global Champagne sales estimated at 306 million bottles in 2016, versus 312m in 2015 – Value of orders hits 4.5bn euros, down on 2015 but still second highest on record – Lower […]
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- January 19, 2017
Who better to ask where to wine and dine in London than vinous and culinary experts? Decanter’s tasting director chats to the Decanter World Wine Award judges and finds out their favourite London wine haunts. It is a privilege to live in London. We Londoners have so many vinous and gastronomic delights on our doorstep. […]
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- January 13, 2017
The controversial Pavie 2003 traded at a new high of £2,440 per 12×75 last week after rising substantially this year. Critic reviews of the vintage have been divided. Jancis Robinson famously scored the wine 12/20 in barrel, calling it “ridiculous”; Robert Parker awarded it 97-100 around the same time. Read more at Parker […]
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- January 13, 2017
A London wine bar is set to be opened by the youngest daughter of Château Margaux’s owner in the next few months. Alexandra Petit-Mentzelopoulos, the youngest daughter of Corinne Mentzelopoulos, owner of Château Margaux in Bordeaux, is to open a wine bar in London in the Spring of 2017. Read more at Château Margaux […]
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- January 05, 2017
How to understand tasting notes: Are you puzzled by terms like dosage and flavours like leafy? Dosage After a traditional-method sparkling wine is disgorged, the liqueur d’expédition is added to create the final dosage. This addition of sugary liquid is used to balance the high acidity levels. With the correct addition, the dosage can accentuate […]
