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Aug 28, 2024 | 
newwinereview.com | Christy Canterbury MW |Virginie Boone
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
newwinereview.com | Felix Salmon |Christy Canterbury MW
Columbo: My friend, they tell me that you know more about wine than just about anybody. Frenchman: Correction. Than anybody. Columbo: I want you to teach me everything you know. Frenchman: It took me years to acquire my expertise. Columbo: Well, what can you do in an hour and a half? Frenchman: Oh, just the very basics. Columbo: Let’s start with this. How can you tell a good wine from an average wine? Frenchman: By . . . the price.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
newwinereview.com | Fintan Kerr |Christy Canterbury MW |Jason Wilson |Sarah Parker Jang
Few wine producing countries in the world are as naturally blessed as Italy. It’s home to hundreds of indigenous grape varieties, a genuinely long, uninterrupted history of winemaking, and more microclimates within individual regions than vast swaths of other countries.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
newwinereview.com | Christy Canterbury MW |Susannah Skiver Barton |Dave McIntyre |Felix Salmon
In agriculture—and especially in wine—it takes years to see evolution amongst the vines and the wines. When it comes to European wine, things tend to change even more slowly or not at all. Dust collects on bottles. The current generation nods in acknowledgment at the wisdom of their elders. Besides, change is inconvenient—especially when 480 producers in a 100-year-old consorzio, or trade association, are involved, like in Chianti Classico. In Europe, vinous heritage is to be preserved, not evolved.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
newwinereview.com | Christy Canterbury MW |Susannah Skiver Barton |Dave McIntyre |Felix Salmon
The barely born, 2023 Bordeaux vintage currently filling the En Primeur pipeline is full of contradictions. Some insiders think the Right Bank performed better, but you’ll hear the inverse just as often. Even next-door neighbors didn’t have the same weather, so others insist that you have to tease out the nitty-gritty details to really “get” the vintage.
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May 28, 2024 | 
newwinereview.com | Christy Canterbury MW |Susannah Skiver Barton |Dave McIntyre |Felix Salmon
Behold the Bordeaux conundrum. The market feels supremely conflicted. The 2023 wines released via the En Primeur campaign—which represent a tiny percentage of the region’s overall production—are generally good to great in quality, and the prices range from “down” to “way down.” Yet, there are wines that should be excellent that are merely good. It’s a vintage—yet again—where research is required.
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May 1, 2024 | 
newwinereview.com | Christy Canterbury MW |Susannah Skiver Barton |Dave McIntyre |Felix Salmon
Nebbiolo lovers, rejoice. There is much to like about Piedmont’s newly released vintages, which span from 2018 to 2021. This is especially true for the trio of 2019, 2020, and 2021. These last three vintages offer straightforward deliciousness and unusually early accessibility. While the very best wines will easily age up to 30 years and possibly longer, even the second-tier wines should evolve to benefit for a decade to 15 years or more.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
newwinereview.com | Christy Canterbury MW |Susannah Skiver Barton |Dave McIntyre |Felix Salmon
Save for the Grand Crus from Puligny and Chassagne, white Burgundy generally offers more value than the region’s reds. However, prices have escalated significantly in the last five years—even in Chablis. In the main villages of the Côte de Beaune, there has been a lot of coattail riding, too, with second-, third-, and fourth-tier producers charging more because their neighbors do.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
newwinereview.com | Christy Canterbury MW |Susannah Skiver Barton |Dave McIntyre |Felix Salmon
Consumers’ passion for Piedmont continues, but how and what they drink is changing. Climate change is making Nebbiolo bottlings more accessible on release, reducing the need for cellaring and eliminating the art of decanting. While Barolo and Barbaresco have traditionally led the way, red blends, Alto Piemonte, and Timorasso are making waves now, too.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
newwinereview.com | Christy Canterbury MW |Susannah Skiver Barton |Dave McIntyre |Felix Salmon
Calling it now: The market bubble for expensive red Burgundy is deflating. Whether it is Bourgogne Rouge or Musigny Grand Cru, prices largely are out of line with what they deliver. Only a few domaines have earned the right to breathe the rarefied air of such lofty altitudes. Between their quantities and qualities (still yet to be determined for this year’s crop), can the bountiful crop of high quality 2022s begin to reform the weary market? Four industry insiders weigh in.
