Subscription, or the forward purchase of goods, has been around in the wine industry for a long time, but only recently has it become a regular offer from retailers to consumers. In the meantime, it…
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“No Pinot Grigio, no Prosecco.” Matteo Inama sets the tone right from the start when presenting his wines, both sympathetically and confidently. The family has been dedicated to Garganega, this ancient white wine grape that…
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History The global success of its finest product often makes people forget that the history of Champagne has its darker side. Champagne Soutiran, for example, is literally a child of war, born in the shadow…
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It is not only the competition with Wine Paris and home-made deficits that are currently undermining the image of what is still the world’s leading wine trade fair. It was also the grim outlook for…
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In February 2024, Eduardo Chadwick, President of Viñedos Familia Chadwick, came to Berlin to celebrate one of the most important moments in Chilean wine history – the tasting victory of one of his wines against…
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This year, there were few new editions of prestige cuvées from the major brands. In the absence of market leader Moët-Hennessy, houses such as Roederer and Pol Roger once again presented the 2015s (Cristal and…
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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 into many cuvées of the big brand Champagnes. After that, viticulture in the…
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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 the end of September as part of the series “Doppelkopf. Menschen, die was…
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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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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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