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Noel Pinguet, winemaker at Domaine Huet, the best-known producer of Vouvray, came to show off some of his wines in London recently. Nowadays, these are not just Vouvrays but also Hungarian sweet... |
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Charles and Philippa Sydney, courtiers en vins de Loire based in Chinon, sent this enthusiastic preliminary report, written mid Nov. All photos courtesy of Charles. Although it's still a... |
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From €8.50, £14.60 and $21.99 Find any Dom de la Chevalerie wine I love Cabernet Franc. When it’s good it has a vivacious perfume, a luscious transparency and real purity and... |
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See our members' forum for some interesting discussion on this subject. Around this time five years ago, I was sweating over the final stages of my MW dissertation, which was all... |
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Online trading platforms accessible to all are proliferating in the wine market. London fine wine trader Bordeaux Index was the first off the blocks in the UK in a strategy long-planned by... |
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If Menetou Salon, Quincy and Reuilly are the poor relations of Sancerre and Pouilly Fumé, spare a thought for the Loire vignerons producing Sauvignon Blanc outside these famous Central Vineyard... |
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Charles Sydney, courtier en vins de Loire, sends this update to his September vintage report now that he has tasted many of the wines. To summarise this... |
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The wines of the Loire Valley have always seemed to Julia and me to attract much less than their fair share of exposure and praise. Julia even made trying to combat this phenomenon the subject of... |
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Charles Sydney, optimistic wine broker pictured below enthusing over Touraine 2008 grapes, reports from the Loire. I thought a quick update on the harvest might... |
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See related thread in Members' forum Didier Dagueneau, the wild boy of Pouilly Fumé, has died at a ridiculously early age, but in what was perhaps a predictable way. Always a fan of... |
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In a nutshell : France's most varied, and neglected, wine region. Most wines noticeably crisp. Main grapes (going downriver): Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet Franc, Gamay, Chenin... |
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Find this wine I found this wine via an extremely circuitous route. Hugh Johnson asked me en passant whether I had tasted a range of French wines... |
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Find Boulay’s Sancerres outside the UK This week’s wine is as much news story as recommendation. American wine lovers have been enjoying Gérard and Thibauilt... |
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Find a 2004 Savennières My apologies - I could have sworn I published this on Tuesday, the usual day for wine of the week, but it seems to have evaporated. Most mysterious.... |
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We tend to forget sweet whites from the Loire. We tend to forget sweet wines altogether which is a great shame as I have written already in How to drink sweet wine . But the Loire’s best... |
