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Selling Armagnac to China: Worth Watching

Becky Sue Epstein
Feature Stories
4 min read
When I was in the French region of Armagnac in December, everyone was all excited about selling Armagnac in China. As well they should be. While Armagnac is a beautiful, tawny, aromatic spirit with a long tradition, in recent decades it has fallen far below Cognac in world recognition, consequently

Heading to New Places: How the Market for Burgundy is Evolving

Prateek Arora
Features
8 min read
Burgundy may be “fiendishly complex, frustratingly inconsistent and maddeningly difficult,” as Allen Meadows of Burghound puts it, but that doesn’t stop it from gaining new fans who are eager to deal with those “difficulties.” It is indeed a lifelong pursuit for an enthusiast to fully comprehend what this mystic wine

Hospices de Beaune: Asia Comes into the Barrel Room

Prateek Arora
Feature Stories
3 min read
Exorbitant and record-breaking prices seem to define the world of wine auctions these days. While traditional names like London and New York featured prominently in such affairs in the past, Asia’s splurging has been gaining more and more attention. Amongst all this, the charitable auction of Hospices de Beaune presents