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How Valais put the charm in Chasselas

Simon J Woolf
Features
7 min read
When Michel Chapoutier mentioned in 2011 that he was considering planting a Chasselas vineyard in the UK, some may have thought this was the ultimate insult to “le vin Anglais” - the famously neutral variety is increasingly ostracized in French vineyards, and is so disliked that even when it appears

Five Things You Need to Know about Swiss Wine

Becky Sue Epstein
Features
5 min read
Rare wines from revitalized, historic grapes are putting Switzerland on the wine lover’s map Swiss wines are nearly impossible to find outside of the country, as they make up less than 1% of global production. Only 1.5% is exported, because the natives -- who rank in the top ten in

Saving Sylvaner

W. Blake Gray
Features
4 min read
Wine lovers, let's help save a grape. It's not quite on its last legs, but it's misunderstood, and our obsession with ratings and blind tasting is partly to blame. The grape is Sylvaner. A century ago it was the most-planted grape in both Alsace and Germany. It's one of the

The ones that (nearly) got away

Simon J Woolf
Feature Stories
3 min read
People who write about wine seem to have a really bad habit of navel-gazing. I know of few other sectors where so many column inches are devoted to what wine writers should be writing about – and how. My reaction is simple - who cares? Wine lovers/geeks/connoisseurs are enough of