The first wine was the Brut “sans année” of the house. There would be little to write about this if Roederer had not replaced its popular Brut Premier with the consecutively numbered Collection last year.…
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The world’s oldest recipe collection The invention of gastronomy did not take place in the Egypt of the first pharaohs, nor in the ancient Chinese civilisation on the Yellow River, nor in the early Indus…
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Martin Maria Schwarz, editor of HR2, the cultural program of Hessischer Rundfunk, conducted a one-hour interview with Stefan Pegatzky of Sur-la-pointe.com. At the end of September, it was published in the series “Doppelkopf. Menschen, die…
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This already started with the packaging. Or rather the packagings: For the Dom Ruinart 2010 came in a solid, foldable cardboard construction. In which, in turn, the real innovation of the house became visible, the…
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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 in Angers and then moved to Paris to “Le Monde,” where he dealt…
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The news had hit like a bomb in 2016. The takeover of the Italian winemaking icon Biondi-Santi by the French luxury group EPI on 1 January 2017. This was in the same league as the…
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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 turned it into a digital project. Who knows, maybe that’s a better choice…
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Unforgettable for me is the Berlin master class of 2018 for the launch of the R. D. 2004. This was not only the opportunity to try out the predecessors 2002 and 1996 in addition to…
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Due to the pandemic and its consequences, the fine wine faction was not quite as strongly represented this year as in 2019 and previous years. Nevertheless, many top winemakers had brought their entire collection with…
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Listening to Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon, one’s own convictions can sometimes go astray. With regard to the stylistics of the House of Roederer, for example, “the purity of the fruit is the absolute goal” for him. In…
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