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Wine at Auction
Melchior of Château Cheval Blanc, 2006, St. Emilion, 1er Grand Cru Classé, Sells for £16,100 – Over Three Times the ...
The first wine sale to take place at Christie’s in London in 2010 is sure to start the season in ...
SALE NO: L10701 | Finest and Rarest Wines – An Outstanding Private Collection | 27 January 2010 | GRAND TOTAL: ...
Auction 101A | 1/29-30/2009 | Island Shangri-La Hotel – Hong Kong | Total Lots in Auction (Excluding No Lots): 970 ...
Lots offered: 1853 | Percent sold: 99.1% | Price with buyer’s premium: US$4,049,386 Zachys hosted enthusiastic crowds at Restaurant DANIEL early ...
Online Bidding Brings New Collectors to Sotheby’s Wine Sales When Sotheby’s completed its final wine sale of 2009 it brought their ...
Total hammer: $2,962,370 (153.8% to low) | Total aggregate: $3,540,032 | Percent sold by lot: 100% Hart Davis Hart achieved exceptional ...
• December sale realises £1.8m, bringing year end total for Sotheby’s wine sales in London to £9.3 million • Best ever ...
The December Sale (L09812) – a selection of over 160 fine and rare wines – totaled $1,325,520/ £814,665/ €899,365 and ...
The Fine and Rare Wines Including Historic Vintages from the Cellars of Château Pichon-Lalande sale realized £1,077,767 / $1,753,527 / ...
Hart Davis Hart sells 100% of lots realizing $4.6M at December 5th auction Hart Davis Hart capped off the year with ...
The PIASA sale of an exceptional selection of wines from the highly acclaimed caves of La Tour d’Argent , one ...
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Château Cheval BlancChâteau Cheval Blanc, Premier Grand Cru Classé (A) [1955 Classification].
Summary: 37 hectares (91 acres). Cabernet Franc (58%), Merlot (42%). Soil: deep gravel, sand with clay subsoil. Average ages of vines 40 years — the oldest are 80 years old (1920). Rootstock riparia; 3309; 101-14; 420 A. Density of plantation 6 000 to 7 000 plants per [...]
Business of wine
Fine Wine in the UK – the state of the market and outlookBritain’s recession officially started in the middle of 2008, but revised data now contradicts the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling’s statement at the time and it seems the recession had already begun earlier in the year. Not only that but some graphists1 show that the forecasts produced by the Bank of England are not [...]
Country Focus
The new Italy by Ernesto Gentili and Fabio Rizzari
Italian wine has been considerably transformed in the last few years. The prevailing paradigm for a long time was to produce very concentrated wines from international varieties using more invasive methods, to make robust wines. Now, there is a preference for lighter styles: less structured, less fruit forward, less [...]
Bordeaux 2008
Bordeaux 2008 – the year of the priceThe ‘en primeur’ campaign has begun. We examine the background to this vintage, its overall quality, the likely impact from the current economic climate, and the changes which have taken place since the last campaign in 2008. We examine what room for manoeuvre the châteaux of Bordeaux may have for pricing changes, how release prices [...]
Fine Wine events
Ambassadors to VeniceWe selected wines which are the greatest ambassadors to the Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia — the closest wine regions to Venice — Prosecco, Amarone, Soave, Picolit to name but a few. We concentrated on wines made from the local autocthonous grape varieties paired to local food dishes prepared using only the best and [...]
Travel
The best wine bars in LondonLondon has remarkably few wine bars which possess a truly extensive list of wines. It is not surprising if one considers the organisation behind such an undertaking: one needs somewhere to display them, one needs resources to buy them and, if they’re not for immediate drinking, to store them whilst funding the cash flow. One [...]
wineViator
Champagne production through the voices of producersThe production of Champagne involves a number of processes – including two fermentations and finally disgorgement (one of the least understood components of Champagne manufacture). Fine Wine explains the technique and the effect it has on the wine.
Wine at Auction feature
Château Cheval Blanc 1947Château Cheval Blanc 1947 has an extraordinary reputation and many of the world’s greatest connoisseurs have always raved about the wine and its unique qualities. Such is the demand for it that it seems likely an upcoming sale of various different vintages direct from the château, and which includes this famous year, are likely to [...]
Champagne
The impact of climate change on ChampagneIconic photographer Robert Capa loved Champagne so much so it supposedly inspired the name behind of the world’s most famous picture agencies, Magnum. Capa co-founded Magnum with Henri Cartier Bresson, amongst others, in 1947. 1947 was not only of the finest Champagne vintages but the late 1940s marked the start of a period [...]
People in Wine
Climate change and wineWe’re beginning a new season of podcasts and and start with the subject of climate change and how this might affect wine making in the future. Fabian Cobb spoke to Professor Gregory Jones, of the Department of Environmental Studies at Southern Oregon University.
Under discussion: how did Professor Jones became be involved with this branch of science? ♦ What [...]
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