The Quixotic Quest of Carlos Falcó

Michelle Locke
Feature Stories
3 min read
Spain is known for volume and it’s known for value. For vaunted wines of international renown? Not as much. Carlos Falcó and his fellow members of Grandes Pagos de España would like to change that. Falcó is one of the founders of GPE, a group promoting estate-grown, terroir-driven wines – pagos

Tejo focuses with shorter name, smaller production

W. Blake Gray
Features
6 min read
Names are important. Let's consider two wine regions in Portugal: Ribatejo and Tejo. Ribatejo has a history of more than 250 years of producing boatloads – literally – of cheap wine, much of it sent in enormous containers to Portuguese colonies like Angola. Tejo (pronounced Tay-zhew), on the other hand, is

Uncorking wine fraud without opening the bottle

Erika Szymanski
Features
6 min read
No one in this post-Rudy Kurniawan, post-fake Chinese Lafite wine world can remain ignorant about wine fraud. After decades of more or less ignoring the problem, lately it’s been all hands on deck. Legal authorities are systematizing how to punish offenders. Engineers are devising clever systems for keeping track of