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Interview with Agustin Santolaya
Monday, 17 May 2010 10:05    PDF Print E-mail
Agustin SantolayaAgustin Santolaya is the man behind Rioja’s iconic wines Roda and Cirsion. Previously a consultant winemaker and olive growing and olive oil making specialist, he became a member of Roda’s board in 1994 and General Manager in 1998. Since that time he has helped Roda win international acclaim not only for its Roda I, Roda II and Cirsion wines but also for its extraordinary olive oils, Dauro and Aubacassa.

 
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Bordeaux
Monday, 17 May 2010 09:29    PDF Print E-mail

Bordeaux chateauDutch born Ronald Rens (1958) lives and works at Chateau Coulon Laurensac near Bordeaux in France. With his wife he runs The Bordeaux Wine Experience, a company that specializes in luxury wine and culinary tours in the Bordeaux region and is generally considered as the leading Bordeaux wine tour company.

Ronald is a passionate Bordeaux collector and as a seasoned wine educator he has been organizing and conducting wine tastings for almost 25 years.
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Austrian Wines
Monday, 17 May 2010 09:01    PDF Print E-mail

The London Tasting 2002The London Tasting 2002 - The Historic Breakthrough for Austria’s Wines

In a series of international tastings held in Vienna, Singapore and Tokyo in 2002, Austria’s Grüner Veltliners and Chardonnays went head to head with some of the world’s top wines. The high point of the series was a tasting in London on October 30th 2002 – which already has entered wine history as the London Tasting 2002. Like the legendary Paris tasting 1976, the London event hosted internationally renowned wines challenged by up-and-coming “unknown” wines. After the series of worldwide tastings, Jancis Ronbinson MW (Financial Times), Tim Atkin MW (then at the Observer) and wine dealer Jan-Erik Paulson wanted to know exactly how Austrian Grüner Veltliners and Chardonnays would fare in an international competition.
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A Rennaissance of German Riesling
Tuesday, 04 May 2010 00:00    PDF Print E-mail

Anne KrebiehlCould it be that the success of so many New World Rieslings has awakened a taste for the original?   Could it be that tasting some Eden Valley, Marlborough or Washington examples has made us curious to approach those slender German flutes with their often Gothic lettering, bewildering nomenclature and frankly disastrous appellation regulations?  Re-visiting and re-assessing Rieslings from Germany, where they find their strongest and purest expressions is a rewarding journey, full of twists and turns and unexpected vistas.
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A discussion on Chianti and Tuscan wine
Friday, 03 April 2009 14:31    PDF Print E-mail
Mormoreto wineInterview with Marchese Piero Antinori
In a Decanter magazine survey of Chianti wine, the discussion cen tered around the question of typicity. Has the essence of Chianti Classico changed, in your opinion?
In the last 30 years the regulations for the production of Chianti Classico (“disciplinare”) have changed several times. As an example, the percentage of “free” grape varieties which can be used in the production of Chianti Classico now reaches 20%.
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