2025年1月4日 · So what happened to wine in 2024? In a word: weather, lots of it and rarely following established patterns. A slightly shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Above, threatening clouds above Clos du Gravillas in the …

2024年11月3日 · Behind and in front of this counter are the three people responsible for The Yellow Bittern, which takes its name from a poem by Thomas MacDonagh, one of the participants in the Easter Uprising of 1916. Hugh Corcoran (above), born in Belfast, is chef, inspiration and also front of house. His partner Frances Armstrong-Jones takes the bookings and payments and doubles as waitress when not ...

2024年12月24日 · Don't pour that ancient bottle of wine down the sink! Some of the corks from an evening described below that proved why. Left to right: the ill-fated Barolo, Silex, mystery Mosel, 1961 Clos René and 1998 Lapierre Morgon. I don’t think London-based private equity lawyer and wine collector François Feuillat is aware of the Libération Tardive movement dedicated to persuading people to age ...

2024年11月30日 · The first of four collections of suggested wines for the Christmas holidays. Look out for others on the next three Saturdays. A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See also our tasting article Festive fizz 2024. French Crémants, made in the same way as champagne, can be some of the best-value sparkling wines. They spend time resting on, and drawing complexity ...

2025年1月9日 · Walter canvasses some of Montalcino's top producers for their take on this challenging and unusually abundant vintage. Above, excess fruit cut from the vine. Photo by Alessia Salvioni. Katia Nussbaum, San Polino ‘You know the paradox of Schrödinger’s cat?’ Katia Nussbaum of San Polino asked me last October, when I inquired how the 2024 growing cycle had been. ‘Simply put, if you place ...

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2024年12月28日 · Fifteen Verget white burgundies like these and 10 more wines were served blind in pairs ... Why? A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See also Cork v screwcap – the tasting. Which is the preferable wine-bottle stopper, cork or screwcap? On aesthetic grounds, cork must win every time. And on grounds of sustainability, as I wrote in March, there is something much more ...

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2025年1月2日 · Not many professional tastings but an unusual number of lunches. For logistical reasons I have to finish my diary a bit before the end of each month. A highlight of the period since I finished my November diary was this old wine dinner at the end of November during which eight of us tried a range of 20th-century wines, including two that were more than 100 years old. A couple of weeks later we ...

2024年12月6日 · The Carignane came from the Colombini family’s own low-yielding, 75-year-old vines in Redwood Valley in Mendocino and was picked on 15 September. Darin Colombini is pictured above in the Cemetery vineyard. The fruit was aged separately in concrete for 18 months, while the Mourvèdre ingredient, from the cooler Placida vineyard near Sebastopol in Sonoma, wasn’t picked until 15 October and ...