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TAINTED PINOT NOIR FINDS NEW LIFE

When life gives you smoke-tainted wine grapes…make whiskey! Following the devastating wildfires that tore through Oregon in 2020, Patricia Green Cellars was left with 12,000 gallons of smoke-tainted Pinot Noir grapes. Rather than chalk it up as a total loss, head winemaker Jim Anderson got creative. Teaming up with local...
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NETFLIX & CUPCAKE

If you’re a fan of Netflix’s hit show Love is Blind then get your wine glass ready! Cupcake Vineyards has teamed up with the producers of the popular show to launch a limited-edition Chardonnay under the name Love is Wine. Season six kicked off on Valentine’s Day in conjunction with the...
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DOMAINES BARONS DE ROTHSCHILD ACQUIRES WILLIAM FÈVRE

The William Fèvre estate has had something of a challenging time finding a permanent home lately. A little more than a year after the renowned top-tier Chablis producer was purchased by Artémis Domaines, it has once again been sold, this time to Domaines Barons de Rothschild for an undisclosed sum....
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CORE WINE TERMS DITCHED

It’s out with the old and out with the new. The US arm of the Court of Master Sommeliers has decided that wine-producing countries will no longer be referred to as “Old World” or “New World” in materials, the body announced in its December newsletter. The decision was driven by...
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ANCIENT DISCOVERY IN THE RHÔNE

A historic wine find has been unearthed as a group of French archaeologists have discovered an ancient 2,000 year-old winery on a plot of land set to become a parking lot in the Rhône Valley’s Drôme department. The Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Preventives (INRAP), overseen by France’s Ministry of Culture,...
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HAS FINE WINE LOST ITS LUSTER?

It wasn’t exactly a banner year for luxury wines. The market for top-end Burgundies, vintage Champagnes and other fine wines declined significantly in 2023, as higher interest rates and a slowdown in the Chinese economy catch up with the once-booming asset class. The price of Burgundy dropped 15.7 percent over...
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WHEN SABERING GOES WRONG

This falls in the category of downright embarrassing. When done right, sabering a bottle of bubbly is nothing short of impressive. Done wrong and well, it’s quite the opposite. On New Year’s Eve, the General Manager at Napa Valley’s famed French Laundry restaurant unsuccessfully sabered a Nebuchadnazeer (15-liter bottle) of...
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SOTHEBY’S WINE SALES BOOM

2018 was quite a year for wine sales at Sotheby’s. The auction house recently announced that its wine and spirit sales for the year crossed US$100 million for the first time. After a bumper series of results which included a bottle of 1945 Romanée-Conti selling for $558,000, another seven Methuselahs...
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THE PERILS OF TOO MUCH SUGAR IN PROSECCO

In the end, the sugar sacks gave them away. Two Prosecco producers based in Valdobbiadene and Refrontolo, in the province of Treviso, were raided this past fall when officials grew suspicious after finding two tons of sugar in sacks. Italian police seized 750,000 liters of Prosecco from the two producers...
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POOR PRODUCTION IN PORTUGAL

While 2O18 was a good year for many of Europe’s wine producing countries, Portugal’s harvest will be the lowest of the past two decades, according to estimates by the country’s National Statistics Institute, placing production at 5.2 million hectolitres – a drop of around 22% on the previous year of...
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