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  • 1 week ago | worldoffinewine.com | David Schildknecht

    In a piece first published inWFW57 in September 2017, David Schildknecht traces the rise of minerality in wine writing and discussion, and asks if it is anything more than an “empty buzzword.”Like many concepts beloved of wine writers, winemakers, and wine marketers, the emergence of “minerality,” however recent, seems already to be lost in the mists of time.

  • 2 months ago | worldoffinewine.com | David Schildknecht

    David Schildknecht considers the changing fortunes of once-derided grape varieties such as Carignan, Aligoté, and Palomino. Ostensibly workhorse grapes sometimes gain luster thanks to prestigious champions. But it doesn’t take famous growers to raise the profile of a workhorse dramatically. Consider Carignan.

  • Mar 28, 2025 | worldoffinewine.com | David Schildknecht |Beverley Blanning MW

    David Schildknecht reviews Wines of the Loire Valley by Beverley Blanning MW. Jacqueline Friedrich published her lovely Wine and Food Guide to the Loire back in 1998, a planned successor getting only as far as a 2011 volume devoted to “The Kingdom of Sauvignon,” so detailed and tasting note-dependent that full Loire coverage in that format would have run to many rapidly dated volumes.

  • Mar 24, 2025 | worldoffinewine.com | David Schildknecht |Beverley Blanning MW

    David Schildknecht reviews Wines of the Loire Valley by Beverley Blanning MW. Jacqueline Friedrich published her lovely Wine and Food Guide to the Loire back in 1998, a planned successor getting only as far as a 2011 volume devoted to “The Kingdom of Sauvignon,” so detailed and tasting note-dependent that full Loire coverage in that format would have run to many rapidly dated volumes.

  • Jan 23, 2025 | worldoffinewine.com | David Schildknecht

    Until the last decade of the 20th century, Grüner Veltliner’s reputation stood in inverse relationship to its ubiquity. When Thudichum and Dupré in 1872 characterized it as “one of the most fertile vines in existence,” they doubtless intended a backhanded compliment.

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