Chablis producers anticipate smaller harvest
Chablis producers are predicting the harvest could be down by around 20%, thanks to bad weather earlier in the growing season.
Read more...Chablis producers are predicting the harvest could be down by around 20%, thanks to bad weather earlier in the growing season.
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When La Revue de Vin de Fance, the esteemed French wine magazine, gave Foncalieu one of its coveted annual awards in Paris in January, the wine world sat up and took note. Les Vignobles Foncalieu, to give them their full name, was crowned French co-operative of the year, following in the footsteps of La Chablisienne in Chablis and Embres et Castelmaure in Corbieres. Twenty years after its formation as a union of co-operatives, the Languedoc-centred Foncalieu had won a most notable accolade.
Sancerre leapt ahead as the top appellation at the ninth Concours des Vins de Bourges, winning a total of 12 gold medals.
Read more...Inter Beaujolais will focus on white Beaujolais and older vintages at its trade and press tasting on June 26.
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The events as they happen on day two of the London International Wine Fair at ExCel.
Quality over quantity, celebrating wholesomeness, cutting down on oak and alcohol content, seeking out cooler climates and reintroducing regional varieties are just some of the trends in wine identified by Jancis Robinson MW.
Read more...Free Run Wines is launching its own French wine brand - Les Calades - to plug what it sees as a gap in the market.
A five-bolt lock pins the rust-coloured door to the hillside. Trees sprout above, just in leaf, their roots wrapping around, but unable to enter. Beneath, Dimitri Bre?evi?'s winery unravels, church-like in its proportions, verdegris mottling concrete walls and blood of Christ soundlessly maturing. Mightily built, this cavern was conceived as a water tank in 1928, converted for war shelter in the early 90s, and, just months ago, recognised as actually here by cartographers and authorities...
Read more...Oddbins, the 35-strong high street wine retailer, has selected seven wines that "sum up" each of the mayoral candidates.
Read more...Despite assurances to the contrary, Château Latour's withdrawal from the en primeur system could be bad for business and threaten the traditional Bordeaux marketplace.
Read more...Southern French co-operative Les Vignobles de Foncalieu is witnessing a move to their own branded wines, above own label.
Read more...Stratford's Wine Agencies' move back towards Old World wines and away from its New World stronghold has paid off, says managing director Paul Stratford.
Read more...French wine brands should take a leaf out of the soft drinks or confectionery categories' books by thinking about what the consumer wants.
Read more...Anne Krebiehl headed to a seminar tasting with Château Margaux managing director and winemaker Paul Pontallier.
Read more...In the second blog from Harpers' Independent Buyers Trip to Beaujolais, run in conjunction with InterBeaujolais, we hear from a few more of the independent retailers who went out to the region.
Read more...The second International Gamay Competition organised by Inter Beaujolais, has announced 169 medal winners.
Read more...Beaujolais' lesser-known whites are building up a following among independent wine merchants who praise the wines' "sensible prices", "food-friendly styles" and"consumer appeal".
Read more...Last week Harpers Wine & Spirit, in conjunction with InterBeaujolais, invited a handful of leading independent wine merchants to go out to Beaujolais and discover the wines for themselves.
Read more...Twenty-six wines were given awards at the 26th annual Chablis Wine Competition.
Read more...In a bright, white gallery space on The Kings Road in Chelsea the annual Australia Day Wine Tasting took place last week. Amid the slurping and spitting, tasters who listened very carefully may have detected a rumbling; deep, subterranean, underground. It could have been a tube train passing below, or a low flying plane overhead. But it was neither of these. The rumbling you may have heard, over the clatter of bottles of Chardonnay and Shiraz, is the sound made as the tectonic plates of the Great Australian Wine Industry shift and rearrange themselves for the first time in a generation.
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