Making Wine with The Languedoc Outsiders

Jill Barth
Features
7 min read
In February 2012 a group of French winemakers gathered together to organize an original collaborative wine tasting at Vinisud, a wine trade event in Montpellier in southern France. They called themselves "The Languedoc Outsiders" and for their debut tasting, they presented a mind-bending experience. When event invitees stopped by to taste

A Ruffino Retrospective

Michelle Locke
Feature Stories
4 min read
Looking back, and ahead, with the iconic Chianti producer Lined up on the white tablecloth, the vertical Chianti tasting is a study in scarlet, from the deep ruby of the 2011 to the brick red of the 1977. It’s not every day you taste a nearly 40-year-old wine – for many

A fresh crop of Cape wines at Intellego

Simon J Woolf
Feature Stories
3 min read
What's your image of South African wine? Big-boned, smoky Pinotage, highly extracted Bordeaux blends, or super-ripe oaked Chenin and Chardonnay perhaps? These were the wine styles that put post-apartheid South Africa on the international wine map. You might be surprised if you tasted Jurgen Gouws's refreshing bottles. Visitors were scratching

Lolea No. 1 and Lolea No. 2 Sangria

David Honig
Wine Reviews
1 min read
Casa Lolea, from Spain, produces a red and a white Sangria using their own family recipe. The packaging is just wonderful. The white, "Lolea No. 2," is in an off-white bottles with big red polka dots, and the red flips the script. Big bottles come with resealable tops like big