The World of Fine Wine

3 days ago | worldoffinewine.com | Michael Schuster

A dinner at London’s The Connaught Hotel featuring an array of  mature vintages from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti paired with specially created dishes by chef Hélène Darroze turned out to be the most memorable wine and food occasion of Michael Schuster’s working life. The genesis of this dinner, at The Connaught in London on December 11, 2024, dates back many years.

1 week ago | worldoffinewine.com | David Williams

While a new manifesto by the Slow Wine Coalition has much to commend it, Nick Ryan finds a potentially fatal flaw. Lock a dozen people in a room and give each of them a tin of paint and a brush. Some will look up and imagine Sistine beauty. They’re the creative types. Others declare the room in need of a freshen up and assiduously apply their paint to the walls. They’re the practical people who keep things ticking along.

1 week ago | worldoffinewine.com | Nick Ryan

While a new manifesto by the Slow Wine Coalition has much to commend it, Nick Ryan finds a potentially fatal flaw. Lock a dozen people in a room and give each of them a tin of paint and a brush. Some will look up and imagine Sistine beauty. They’re the creative types. Others declare the room in need of a freshen up and assiduously apply their paint to the walls. They’re the practical people who keep things ticking along.

1 week ago | worldoffinewine.com | Anick Goumaz

Coined in the 1990s by Jacky Rigaux, the term “geosensory tasting” refers to a method practiced in Burgundy some nine centuries ago by the so-called gourmets. Without relying on the senses of sight or smell, they were trusted to verify the viticultural origins of wines. As Anick Goumaz relates, this challenging and intriguing technique is now coming back into fashion and being taught increasingly widely, from France and Switzerland, to Shanghai.

1 week ago | worldoffinewine.com | Simon MW

With its wines made from Cabernet Franc in Saumur-Champigny and from Chenin Blanc in Anjou, Clos Rougeard represents “all that is good about the Loire,” says Simon Field MW. It was from Chinon rather than the marshes of Aquitaine that Henry II of England, in 1150, made a valiant attempt to carve up western France and to salvage, at the very least, the legal gift of his marriage to Eleanor.