Jamie and Caroline go on a tour of beautiful Western Australia in association with Wines of Western Australia – the organisation representing the wineries of this incredible region. Western Australia is home to nine vast and extraordinary wine regions, each crafting wines with worldwide appeal. The land is ancient and pristine, with breathtaking features that
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Italy’s Marzotto family, which built Santa Margherita into a Pinot Grigio juggernaut, acquired majority ownership of Roco Winery in Oregon’s Willamette Valley this week. Financial terms were not disclosed, but the purchase marks the company’s first winemaking venture outside Italy. The sale includes Roco’s winemaking facility just outside Newberg, the Roco brand and current inventory.
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Christmas pudding in a glass is a more than apt description of this hypnotic dessert wine from Pizzini. Per Gli Angeli is Italian for ‘For the Angels”. Made in the Vin Santo style, when you consider the winemaking process, the angels seem to have taken their fair share too. This is simply sublime. Given the
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Who makes it? Billecart-Salmon Champagne is still a family owned Champagne house. It all started in 1818, with the marriage of Nicolas Francois Billecart and Elisabeth Salmon. And thus began the business. A seventh generation Billecart is now working in the family business. And it is all looking like the house is going from strength
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What is hot pot? Hot pot is an Asian method of cooking food where raw ingredients are boiled in hot water or soup stock. It is very healthy and communal and while it may sound bland, the food can be flavored by adding sauces or flavoring the liquid you are boiling the food in. Hot
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Before we look ahead to whatever 2022 may bring, Wine Spectator‘s editors would like to remember the wine industry pioneers, innovators, leaders and chroniclers we lost this year, some of them to the COVID-19 pandemic. This year we bid farewell to Steven Spurrier, organizer of the famed 1976 Paris Tasting, as well as Châteauneuf-du-Pape star
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2021 has certainly been a rollercoaster ride of emotions. Everyone has had a very different Covid experience but it has been wonderful to see the human spirit in these unforeseen times. In the wine sector, so many were challenged once again be it in the vineyard, winery, cellar door and on-premise. In times like these,
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Learn about the various types of port and their history of production. Adácio Rideiro, from Casa da Calçada, teaches us about the various types and their uses. Consider doing your own port tasting as well as expand your knowledge of this delicious wine.
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Franco Ziliani, the winemaker and revered “founding father” of Northern Italy’s Franciacorta sparkling wine appellation, died of natural causes over the weekend at his home on the shores of the appellation’s Lake Iseo. He was 90. Ziliani’s passing came at a historic milestone, 60 years after making his first groundbreaking vintage of a Champagne-style sparkling
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