Photo credit: Nicole diGiorgio sweetnessandlightphoto.com/ Bonny Doon Vineyards The ambition of many a vineyard-owning winemaker is to craft the finest possible vin de terroir. It is a lofty notion – the story of one vineyard’s specific climate, soil type,…
Photo credit: Deutsches Weininstitut Cool climate has become a bit of a buzzword for wine enthusiasts in recent years. Marginal climates on the very brink of where grapes can successfully ripen are increasingly being sought out by growers conscience of…
Photo credit: Claude Rigoulet The month of May began gray and dreary, with a near constant patter of rain. I told myself that this was for the best, as I hunched over my daily flight of mystery wines. Nothing…
After a fabulous dinner in the gracious company of Christian Seely, managing director of AXA Millésimes, and Corinne Ilic, AXA Communications Director, we headed to bed with visions of 2005 vintage Château Pichon Baron dancing in our heads. In…
Photo credit: Daphne Feng Three weeks ago, I was still bundling my kids up in snow suits. Today, they are sweating in shorts and tee-shirts. There is just no accounting for weather these days. And, according to climate change…
Photo credit: Château Pichon Baron, AXA Millésimes It was on a particularly cold and dreary day in January that I sat down to write an essay that would bring me here, today, staring out at the majestic terraced vineyards…
The wine trade, like so many other industries, has long been a male dominated arena. The Greeks banned women from attending their symposiums. It was at these marathon eating and wine drinking orgies that the great political and theological…
Italy is the largest producer of sparkling wine on the planet. With its delicate bubbles, fruity personality, and affordable price, Prosecco has taken the world by storm. No longer reserved for special occasions, sparkling wine is now a popular…
Photo credit: Tedeschi Wines With so much cross over nowadays, in terms of viticultural and winemaking techniques, it is getting harder and harder to find unique wine styles. Burgundian look-a-like Chardonnay is cropping up through-out Australia. German Rieslings are…
Looking for the best wines to drink with pizza? We took five classic Italian pizza wine favourites and put them to the test! …