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Book Review: Wine Hiking Switzerland

Posted on by Markus Hungerbühler
Markus Hungerbühler reviews Ellen Wallace's new book on the hikes and wines of Switzerland, Wine Hiking Switzerland: Explore the Landscape of Swiss Wines.   It is not often that a book about Swiss wines is published in English as the original version and in French and German, both national languages of Switzerland, as translations. Our fellow member Ellen Wallace, a travel and wine writer (...
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Meet the Friend: Alfonso de Gaetano

Posted on by Amanda Barnes
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The Jewel in the Crown

Posted on by Fiona Morrison MW
In this excerpt from On Champagne: A tapestry of tales to celebrate the greatest sparkling wine of all…, Fiona Morrison MW falls in love with the Vieilles Vignes Françaises, Champagne’s most mysterious wine, which hails from a tiny walled plot of Pinot Noir vines in the Grand Cru village of Aÿ. Treasured possession of the house of Bollinger, this is a site that’s been admired for its wines since m...
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The Promise’ Pinot Noir, made for the people

Posted on by L.M. Archer
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Wine between the dunes: A guide to Ica, Peru

Posted on by Amanda Barnes
Peru's wine regions, by Amanda Barnes. The South America Wine Guide
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The ALCS and PLR: are you missing out?

Posted on by Billy Abbott
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Wine’s transactional flaw

Posted on by Andrew Jefford
Andrew Jefford is one of the most celebrated wine writers in the world, known for his lyrical prose which delve into the philosophy of wine. Drinking with the Valkyries: Writings on Wine is his new book, a collection of his essays, published by Academie du Vin Library. In this extract from the book, Jefford ponders on the 'transactional flaw' of wine.   Gallus gallus domesticus is the c...
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Meet the Friend: Martina Litta, INAVI

Posted on by Amanda Barnes
Martina Litta is the Foreign Trade Manager of INAVI, Uruguay's national viticulture institute. In this interview, Amanda Barnes discovers what brought Martina into the world of wine and why she gets excited when she meets someone trying Uruguayan wine for the first time.   What is your first memory in wine?  The first memory that comes to my mind is being very young, around five or s...
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Getting to grips with Georgian wine

Posted on by Michèle Shah
Michèle Shah climbs the Caucuses, then rocks the cradle of wine, counts the Qvevri and comes back with the oldest winemaking place of all very much on her mind. Georgia is often called an emerging wine region, but it’s only emerging in our consciousness. It is, in fact, ‘the cradle of wine’, with the oldest viticultural tradition in the world. It’s not surprising that some of the world’s oldest a...
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