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.…
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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…
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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.…
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The cooperatives in Champagne are changing. Of course, they still produce large quantities of base wines for the major trading houses. But…
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History Wines from the Côte de Sézanne are mentioned as early as the Middle Ages, and until the phylloxera crisis they went…
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Martin Maria Schwarz, editor at German radio station HR2, conducted an hour-long interview with Stefan Pegatzky from Sur-la-pointe.com. It was broadcast at…
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Doutrelant was more than just a wine journalist. From near Lille in northern France, he had started out at a local paper…
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This project was originally intended to be a book, but the crisis in publishing, high paper prices and expensive image rights have…
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Listening to Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon, one can easily become confused by his convictions. When it comes to the style of Louis Roederer, for…
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