Wines News & People
Wine: Grape wall of China By Anthony Rose Saturday, 10 May 2008 Last month, a Beijing-based billionaire splashed out £250,000 on 27 bottles of wine – a far cry from what the man and woman in the street spends in China. What they drink is largely the £1-a-bottle home-grown brands from big wine companies like Changyu, Great Wall, [...]
Aligoté Wine Style: Medium-bodied, crisp, dry wines with spicy character. Flavors: Origin: Burgundy only Found: Burgundy in France only Bourgogne Aligoté is a light white wine blessed by high levels of acidity. People in Burgundy drink it young as Aligoté, which is sold cheaply in France is not a wine that can age such as others. Aligoté stands for a white grape [...]
Jancis Robinson: critics should show more humility April 21, 2008 Sophie Kevany Wine critic Jancis Robinson MW has called wine critics ‘parasitical’ and has urged them to be more humble and honest. Speaking at the WineCreator conference in Ronda, Spain, conference president Robinson said, ‘We must always remember that we are parasites on the business of winemaking.’ Robinson further exhorted [...]
Alois Kracher Neusiedlersee, Burgenland Austria When you think of Austrian sweet wines one name springs to mind – Alois Kracher. Austria’s Alois Kracher is one of the world’s reknown makers of sweet wine. Based in the Burgenland district, south of Vienna, near the large, shallow lake called Neusiedler See, Kracher utilizes a variety of grapes for his sweeties, though [...]
Italy (意大利) – The Northwest – Barolo La Morra (洛曼拉) Click to View: Map of Barolo / La Morra. A sub category of Barolo DOCG, Barolo covers some 3,100 acres of which are divided into 11 communes just south of the city of Alba. They are Barolo, Castiglione Falletto, Serralunga d’Alba, Diano d’Alba, [...]
Italy (意大利) – The Northwest – Barolo Monforte d’Alba Click to View: Map of Barolo / Monforte d’Alba. A sub category of Barolo DOCG, Barolo covers some 3,100 acres of which are divided into 11 communes just south of the city of Alba. They are Barolo, Castiglione Falletto, Serralunga d’Alba, Diano d’Alba, Grinzane [...]
. Italy (意大利) – The Northwest – Barolo Serralunga d’Alba Click to View: Map of Barolo / Serralunga d’Alba. A sub category of Barolo DOCG, Barolo covers some 3,100 acres of which are divided into 11 communes just south of the city of Alba. They are Barolo, Castiglione Falletto, Serralunga d’Alba, Diano d’Alba, Grinzane [...]