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  • 3 days ago | cluboenologique.com | Paul Caputo |Ellie Broughton

    Many of Tuscany’s wineries offer guests the opportunity to pair their wines with local cuisine, but some have taken this further, establishing full-scale restaurants that have become integral to the region’s food and wine culture. Eating out in Italy is often about conviviality – simple dishes, good company, and well-chosen wine. Trattorias, osterias, and pizzerias dominate the landscape, but winery restaurants add another dimension.

  • 5 days ago | cluboenologique.com | Ellie Broughton

    A release of new wines from Rioja always constitutes an amazingly diverse range. For this report, we requested, through the appellation’s consejo, only top wines, with prices at or above £30, and received more than 300 wines. There are very few regions in the world that can produce so many different wines at that level of quality – I can only think of one other: Burgundy.

  • 1 week ago | cluboenologique.com | Ellie Broughton

    Drawing a glass of cloudy liquid from one of her giant concrete eggs, Dr Magali Picard passionately explains her approach to malolactic fermentation and time on lees. We’re in Maison Lineti’s impressive ‘egg box’ on the Right Bank in Bordeaux, a stone’s throw from St-Emilion’s celebrated châteaux. None of this is particularly unusual except Picard is not talking about wine; this is single-malt whisky, made by one of the world’s most experimental and exciting emerging distillers.

  • 1 week ago | cluboenologique.com | Paul Caputo |Ellie Broughton

    Tuscany is one of the world’s most important wine regions. Its evocative, timeless landscapes support this association, but its wealth of premium wineries, operating in all corners of the region, firmly entrenches this reputation. Sangiovese is etched into Tuscany’s viticultural identity, but its adaptability to different soils and microclimates reveals it to be one of the great conduits of terroir.

  • 2 weeks ago | cluboenologique.com | Ellie Broughton

    Raimonds Tomsons, the World’s Best Sommelier 2023, smiles ruefully. ‘My wife tells me I’m not normal,’ he says. He’s speaking from the offices of Barents Wine Collectors in Riga, Latvia, where he’s wine director. He seems perfectly relaxed and, well, normal. But then again, in the rarefied world of the high-end sommelier, perhaps different rules apply.

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