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.
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Sancerre leapt ahead as the top appellation at the ninth Concours des Vins de Bourges, winning a total of 12 gold medals.
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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.
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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.
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Free Run Wines is launching its own French wine brand - Les Calades - to plug what it sees as a gap in the market.
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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...
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Published: 25 April, 2012
Oddbins, the 35-strong high street wine retailer, has selected seven wines that "sum up" each of the mayoral candidates.
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Published: 20 April, 2012
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.
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Published: 13 April, 2012
Southern French co-operative Les Vignobles de Foncalieu is witnessing a move to their own branded wines, above own label.
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Published: 12 April, 2012
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.
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Published: 13 March, 2012
French wine brands should take a leaf out of the soft drinks or confectionery categories' books by thinking about what the consumer wants.
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Published: 22 February, 2012
Anne Krebiehl headed to a seminar tasting with Château Margaux managing director and winemaker Paul Pontallier.
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Published: 17 February, 2012
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.
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Published: 14 February, 2012
The second International Gamay Competition organised by Inter Beaujolais, has announced 169 medal winners.
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Published: 13 February, 2012
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".
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Published: 10 February, 2012
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.
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Published: 10 February, 2012
Twenty-six wines were given awards at the 26th annual Chablis Wine Competition.
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Published: 03 February, 2012
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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Published: 16 January, 2012
Emmanuel Charrier has been elected the new president of the regional trade body for the AOP wines of the Centre Loire vineyard, the BIVC.
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