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- August 11, 2016
The growing season is the most complicated Champagne has known since the very difficult season of 1956, said Eric Rodez, winemaker at the family-owned Champagne Rodez in Ambonnay. In spring, late frosts hit the Côte des Bar region, where a quarter of the Champagne vineyards are. Jean Pierre Fleury, winemaker at Champagne Fleury in Courteron […]
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- August 08, 2016
Balaclava-clad wine terrorists attacked the Biron merchant in Sete overnight, local media reported. They cracked open five vats, sending wine gushing into the nearby streets of the port town. Sete is around 20 minutes by car from Montpellier in Languedoc-Roussillon. Miliants claimed allegiance to the activist winemaker group CRAV, short for Regional Action Committee of […]
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- August 05, 2016
Vicky Zhao Wei and investors have reportedly agreed to replace Taiwanese actor Leon Dai in a film that Vicky Zhao is directing after Dai failed to clarify his political views – specifically on Taiwan independence. The status of Taiwan is a major faultline in Chinese politics. Vicky Zhao Wei has faced intense criticism on social […]
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- August 05, 2016
It was supposed to be a vintage – the signs were good, the scores were promising and the market was ready – so how did the Bordeaux First Growths of the 2008 vintage end up meeting such an underwhelming reception? Looking at the situation dispassionately, it should have worked. The “8” in the year suggested […]
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- August 05, 2016
Professor Daniel Attinger is now working with a team of scientists at Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne in Switzerland to develop the non-stop wine machine. His ‘micro winery on a chip’ is capable of continuously producing wine at a rate of one millilitre per hour, according to the university. But, Attinger’s miniature device isn’t intended […]
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- July 27, 2016
Pierre Emmanuel Taittinger has said that he is pulling out of the race to be French president, according to comments reported widely in the France press today (22 July). Taittinger was reported as saying that he would not run in the French presidential elections in 2017, due to personal matters. ‘A serious personal event […]
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- July 26, 2016
Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger has caused a stir in French media after announcing that he intends to run for French president. He was quoted in the l’Union newspaper in Champagne as announcing his candidature for France’s president election in 2017. Taittinger is currently president of the eponymous Champagne house. He previously told Decanter that he planned to […]
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- July 13, 2016
Growing numbers of the UK’s fine wine merchants are reporting a post-Brexit boost in demand, but they are also wary that the cost of replenishing their cellars with top wines from Europe could be significantly more expensive. Where is the demand coming from? It is predominantly fine wine lovers and also merchants overseas who are […]
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- July 05, 2016
When Bollinger staff cleaned out a gallery of its cellar under the house in Aÿ stacked with old, empty bottles, they made a remarkable discovery. Hidden for decades, they unearthed an incredible collection of some 600 bottles, the youngest of which was found to be 1921 and the oldest, 1830. 19th century Bollinger Champagnes […]
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- July 05, 2016
Is there really anything else that we can write about this week? I am more heartbroken and frustrated than I can remember being. As a British person living in Europe, this was a result that I neither expected nor wanted. But it’s now almost a week on, and reality is setting in. And even for […]
