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Barolo’s wild little sidekick

22/03/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

The GD Vajra winery was one of the first in Barolo to be interested in organic, in 1972. Today they produce elegant wines from Nebbiolo – and one startling wild one from Freisa grapes.

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Barolo, Freisa, G.D. Vajra, Italian wine, Nebbiolo, organic, vintages

Beer for same taste, wine for exploring taste

11/12/2014 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

The BBC has a fine article on how science has helped beer in recent years, much of it focusing on one of my personal favourites, Guinness. Part of the message is that beermakers seek consistency and go to great lengths to make sure a Guinness is a Guinness is a … you get it, the […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: beer, Bovet, Bursins, Delaharpe, Dutruy, Founex, Givrins, hail, vintages

CHF5,287 for a small glass of vin jaune – cheers!

16/05/2012 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A rare vintage 1774 bottle of 87 cl of vin jaune from Arbois, France, near the Swiss border, sold for CHF46,000 Tuesday 15 May at Christie’s auction of fine wines in Geneva. The winning bid was made via Internet to an unnamed European trade buyer, so it will be hard to wangle […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: 1982, 1988 Mouton-Rothschild, Arbois, Chateau d'Yquem, Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, Christie's, Geneva, Hotel des Bergues, Michael Ganne, vin jaune 1774, vintages, wine auction

Wine investors: drinkers and investors won during the financial crisis

04/04/2010 by Ellen Wallace

There are two types of wine investors: those who buy wines they want to explore, and who set them aside for later when the sensory value will have increased, and those who buy, gambling that the price will rise neatly. The investors will either sell it or open the bottle when it is time to […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: antoine Christophe Betrisy, Aosta Valley, Archevesque, Bordeaux, Côtes du Rhone, Cully, definition fine wine, Ermitage, fine wines, France, Fumin, Gialdi Vini, grapes, Harvests, Hermitage, investors, Italy, Jancis Robinson, Jean-Philippe Weisskopf, Lavaux region, Louis Bovard, Marsanne, Medinette, Memoire des Vins Suisses, producers, regions, research, research Philippe Massey, Rèze, Roussanne, St Saphorin, Swiss wines, Switzerland, Ticino, Unesco World Heritage site, US - California, Valais, Vaud, vineyards, vintage, vintages, white wines, wine-tasting, wineries

Vintage wine frauds face off with science (update)

22/03/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Australians take advantage of nuclear fallout Brits and French prefer to shoot ion beams from particle accelerator Update 17:35  Australian researchers have succeeded, after 11 years of research and several hundred bottles of wine, in coming up with a new carbon-dating method to check the real age of vintage wines. It’s not cheap, but the […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: age, American Chemical Society, Antique Wine Company, Australia, Britain, C-12, C-14, cheating, fakes, France, fraud, Graham Jones, Harvests, London, nuclear fallout, research, Technical, University of Adelaide, vintage wines, vintages, World wines

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