I took this hazy early-morning picture from our hotel room yesterday morning just before the FEIRT two-day Rieslingfest . But what a great welcome Sydneysiders gave us on Saturday night. The fourth annual wine gala dinner organised by the indefatigable Australian chapter of Room to Read raised the.

As well as the flood of Burgundy 2010 notes that dominated January on Purple Pages, there were plenty of other tasting notes on all sorts of wines to tickle your fancy. These include nine standout standalone tasting notes (in other words, notes that do not appear in a published article but are.

See Erbaluce - grape discovery of the year for Walter's introduction to this variety and its home territory in north-west Italy, as well as a description of the key styles of wine produced there. These tasgting notes are divided by style - first sparkling, then still and dry, and finally sweet -.

Look out for Walter's tasting notes as well. Last November I was invited to the Canavese region in Piemonte, north-west Italy, to taste Erbaluce. Until then I had never tasted this quasi-mythical white grape variety, not least because there is precious little of it around - a mere 175 ha for the.

The day before He is the kind of man, indeed, to whom I should never refuse anything. Except it wasn’t a wedding proposal but a tasting invitation; and it wasn’t from Darcy but from DRC. Both are offers one simply cannot refuse. Specifically, this was a tasting of the Domaine de la.

This Wednesday evening a sale of very fancy wine is scheduled to take place at London's Mandarin Oriental hotel. Organised jointly by Spectrum and Vanquish, it has excited considerable online comment. See, for example, this thread on our forum and another on winebeserkers.com . You may be.

See also my tasting notes on the current Vigno wines. As someone who writes wine reference books, I am truly scared by Chile and its unparalleled pace of change. I asked two people to bring me up to speed on the newest wine regions there - writer and broadcaster Peter Richards, the Master of Wine.

The restaurant business harbours very few secrets. Its sales prices are widely published via its menus and wine lists. The wholesale prices of any restaurant's main suppliers are invariably widely known to the competition, as are the general pay rates required to hire all the necessary staff. The.

Here is a quick guide to finding your way round our  wide-ranging coverage to date of the very promising 2010 vintage in Burgundy with its more than 2,000 wine reviews.  TASTING NOTES/REVIEWS Burgundy 2010 A-C  (Tasting articles)  Burgundy 2010 D-J  (Tasting.

From €4.99 , £8.49, NZ$22.41, Au$24.95, 1,524 Swedish krone a dozen Find this wine This is where the real value in Bordeaux lies, in the little, best-tended corners of the least glamorous areas run with dedication and enough cash to make the right decisions. The Vincent family first bought.

After I hung up the phone, my immediate thought was well, I can’t do it. I simply don’t know how to do it. I can’t do it. This was the first time in the 30 months that I have been studying towards becoming a Master of Wine that I genuinely entertained the notion that I might never actually.

There has so far been only one thing wrong with the Eighth International Cool Climate Symposium here in Tasmania: the weather. As I write on Thursday evening just before the gala dinner to be cooked by famous Sydney chef Tetsuya Wakuda 'and local top chefs' (don't eat out in Hobart tnight), I am.

Last week I had the chance to taste the first lot of old-vine Carignans from Maule in Chile being launched under the name, and relatively strict appellation-like regulations, of Vigno. Maule, as you may know, is the somewhat forgotten wine region in southern Chile (the orange bit on the right).

See also ID codes for Krug Grande Cuvée . A long, long time ago in another era – last November when Pancho Campo was riding high and my description of him in the introduction to my Hong Kong tasting as the P T Barnum of wine was only half proved – a couple of dozen of us met before WineFuture.

Now that the new year has started, some figures about the 2011 wine market in Russia are available. This is the second time since 2008 that the market has shrunk, but only by 1% compared with 2010. This is due mostly to the local producers who had a much smaller harvest in 2010. Imports, on the.

See also Eight (surprising) Krugs for breakfast . For a long time the official line with Grande Cuvée, the principal product of Krug by far, was that it was blended to achieve consistency. But this was patently not the case. You can see my tasting notes on some disappointing cuvées on this site.