Tamlyn Currin, in jancisrobinson.com on February 6, 2024, wrote an article on Alsace Reflections. Here is what she wrote about Marc and Anne-Marie Tempé: Top discoveries for me personally were the wines of Bernard Bohn (Domaine Bohn), Félix Meyer (Meyer-Fonné) and, especially, Marc and Anne-Marie Tempé. The Tempés make the spellbindingly beautiful biodynamic wines, but…
Sofia Ruhne of Terreno in Chianti is included in this New York Times article about Wine Heiresses Apparent. Chianti has a concentration of women who have taken over family enterprises which “have led them to heights they had never achieved before despite obstacles that many women still face.”
Great article on Domaine Jean-Luc Mouillard and his Jura Savagnin wine, “Le Curieux,” in Jancis Robinson’s post of December 15, 2023. Tamlyn Currin says: “…this particular bottling, made in the more modern, ‘fresh’ mode of Savagnin, really startled me. It is bold, tenacious, defiantly gutsy.” Read the article here.
You can read here a fascinating interview by the famous wine bookstore of Beaune, Athenaeum, with Jean-Marc Sélèque.
A very bad and disloyal variety from which come abundant quantities of wine…And this wine of Gaamez is of such a kind that it is very harmful to human creatures, so much so that many people who have had it in the past were infested by serious disease, as we’ve heard; because, said wine of…
Riesling, vintage 2023: We are enthusiastic! The 2023 vintage was over like in a flash and much to our liking. With beautiful weather, fog in the morning, sunshine in the afternoon. The grape harvest team rushed through the vineyards. Later, during the main harvest, we sorted out the different qualities. There were plenty of raisins….
A post on winechain.co’s Instagram talks about Pierre-Jean Villa: Known as one of the most revered winemakers of the Northern Rhone Valley and doing it all with a little help from his children…Pierre-Jean Villa has captivated wine enthusiasts with his conviction and passion. You can read the post here.
Jonathan Hesford, of Domaine Treloar, reflects on climate change in Roussillon in this JancisRobinson.com article. Jonathan says that every year since 2016 has dealt the region climatic surprises that have made the vintages and the yields less consistent. The style of his wines and the volumes that he has for sale have varied more from…
Eric Asimov in The New York Times explains how Robert Mondavi’s grandson, Carlo Mondavi, is pushing the California wine industry in a new direction born not of 20th century aspirations but of the existential threat of the 21s century, climate change: Mr. Mondavi, 43, envisions something of an agricultural revolution that would rein in farming’s…
Domaine de la Chevalerie is featured in Jon Bonné’s The New French Wine: Domaine de la Chevalerie, a historic property dating to 1640, has become one of the great hopes for Bourgueil in recent years under the guidance of siblings Emmanuel, Stéphanie, and Laurie Caslot. (The progress made Stéphanie’s death in 2021 all the more…
