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The esteemed wine publication La Revue du Vin de France has just published ‘Les Meilleurs Vins à Petits Prix’ in a special edition to mark its 10th anniversary. The wine selections have been completely updated. Apart from the listings of some 1,500 wines available in France from 3€ to 17€ the book includes the following [...]

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Château 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

Social media is a way for you to build your own contacts and network, but as importantly, to understand, measure and follow your brand, your market penetration, your influence and the efficiency and thus cost of your marketing strategy.

Years to reach 50million users: Radio 38 years; TV 13 years; Internet 13 years; Facebook 9 [...]

Country Focus

Italy is a country of enormous diversity – geographic, cultural, linguistic, culinary and, of course, vinous. This applies to their sparkling wine production as much as their mountains, art, cities, dialects, salamis, cheeses and tranquil wines. In the current global economic crisis, Italian bubbly has shown strong export growth in in the first nine months [...]

Bordeaux 2008

The ‘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

We 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

London 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

The 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 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

Iconic 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

It is with great sadness that we learned of the death of Thierry Manoncourt, owner of Château Figeac, St Emilion, who died aged 92. Fabian Cobb interviewed Mr Manoncourt a few years ago who related his story and that of the Château. Click on this link to listen.

Books

The esteemed wine publication La Revue du Vin de France has just published ‘Les Meilleurs Vins à Petits Prix’ in a special edition to mark its 10th anniversary. The wine selections have been completely updated. Apart from the listings of some 1,500 wines available in France from 3€ to 17€ the book includes the following [...]