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For Lovers of Aged Bordeaux, an Opening

Evan Dawson
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5 min read
But is it a door, or just a window? Modern winemaking can do all kinds of neat tricks. Soften the tannins and make even Barolo more approachable in its relative youth? We can do that. Manipulate the acids to save a white wine that would otherwise taste like an electric

A silver bullet to replace copper in the vineyard?

Simon J Woolf
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3 min read
When I first meet Dutch winemaker Stan Beurskens, I've already heard quite a bit about him. He's one of very few Netherlands producers farming organically, he's an interesting character, he likes to work with unusual grape varieties,and so forth. Our first exchange therefore baffles me: Me: “I saw there is

A Year in Champagne lacks sparkle, info

Becky Sue Epstein
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2 min read
I do hope that people who watch A Year in Champagne have seen this production company’s last feature, A Year in Burgundy. This Champagne film is like a Part Two in terms of wine education. It assumes a certain amount of wine knowledge. Drinking champagne is fun, glamorous, exciting. And

Diodoros: Wine Among the Ruins

Michelle Locke
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3 min read
In Sicily, the Diodoros Project focuses on really old world wine. On a day that trembles between sunshine and showers, shafts of early morning sun slice through the clouds to light up the vineyard of Nero d’Avola grapes growing in this quiet corner of Sicily. It’s not a particularly unusual

Lightness and weight: an ode to Schioppettino

Simon J Woolf
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4 min read
One of the most beguiling things about Italy's finest red wine varieties is their balance between weight and complexity on the one hand, and finesse and lightness on the other. Milan Kundera spends the entire length of his classic 1984 novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” iterating over a similar