What makes a wine really great? The price, the ratings, the lack of availability? Château Lafleur is the third most expensive wine in the Bordelais after Pétrus and Le Pin, the annals of the ‘Wine…
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SLP: French viticulture is in crisis. But it’s not just the entry-level segment that is currently affected, but also the luxury segment. What is your situation at the moment? FR: When the corona pandemic hit,…
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History If you want to know what Champagne Valentin Leflaive aspires to, you have to go back to the end of the 1980s. Back then, Oliver Leflaive tried to buy Champagne Salon from Besserat de…
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Two German wines, one Californian, but seven French wines. My personal review of the 2024 wine year is actually not very diverse. This is perhaps also due to the fact that I have written elsewhere…
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Blanc de Noirs, i.e. ‘white’ champagne made exclusively from red grapes, is a trend in Champagne. Many Maisons have presented premieres in recent years. I wrote about Bruno Paillard’s Blanc de Noir here – this…
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‘What is time?’ Thomas Mann asked in his novel “The Magic Mountain” and answered: “A mystery, a figment – and all-powerful.”. The mystery of time is something you have to think about a lot when…
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The ambition was clear: Collection Impériale Création No. 1 was to be nothing less than the quintessence of Moët & Chandon’s style. Benoit Gouez describes the path to this goal as haute Œnologie, an analogy…
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The juice runs blood-red, almost black, between my fingers. Saperavi, ‘bringer of colour’ is the name of the grape variety from which I am crushing a berry in my hand. Here, in the small vine…
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History “The smallest of the Champagne vineyards are those of Sillery, and yet no wine of the Marne enjoys a greater renown”. This was written in 1875 by the British wine writer Henri Vizetelly in…
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Some love them, some hate them. Some consider it sacrilege that the name of the category is English and not Italian. The term “Super Tuscan” sparks many of the controversies that occupy the wine world…
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