Wine Reviews

Established in Épernay over more than 160 years ago, this maison ranks as one of the smaller of the great Champagne brands and nowadays continues totally under family control. Owning 87 hectares, Pol Roger has vineyards under its control in the Marne Valley, the Côte de Blancs and the Montagne de Reims - the Champagne magic triangle. Pol Roger is...
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Bodegas Paternina were founded, originally in the small Riojan town of Ollauri, more than a hundred years ago by Federico Paternina. They have denoted for several generations of consumers one of the country’s most well-known wine-producing brands and at the time they were one of the wineries pioneering the use of machinery and large facilities,...
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One of the Portuguese wineries that is currently most in vogue and which, although it was officially founded in 1998, dates its wine-producing history back to 1877 when Doña Antónia Adelaide Ferreira, an illustrious figure and a fine artisan of high quality wines in Portugal, decided to establish one of the best Quintas in the Douro Superior...
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Although they have been settled for more than fifty years in La Horra, Burgos province, the Sastres did not get set up as a winery until the beginning of the 1990s when Severiano Sastre’s son, Rafael, founded the winery as we know it today based on a specific philosophy: to produce limited wines with unlimited care. Sustainable grape-growing that...
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To talk of Guigal is to talk of one of the most important négociants and wine producers in the Northern Rhône and, by extension, one of the most renowned names in the world of wine in France and very highly regarded by international critics over the last few decades. This family-owned business, located in Ampuis and now managed by the founder’s...
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Gaia Wines was started up in 1994 by Yiannis Paraskevopoulos and Leon Karatsalos with the clear intention of showing everybody the potential of Greece’s old grape strains and placing the small, very fragmented wine-growing regions of the Peloponnese firmly on the map. Today Gaia has two wineries located at Nemea and another on the lovely island of...
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Clos de l’Obac started out in the Priorat region in 1979 under the guidance of Carles Pastrana who, along with such important names as René Barbier, Álvaro Palacios, Daphne Glorian and Josep Lluís Pérez, was one of the pioneers who marked a turning point at the end of the eighties, favouring quality, not previously found in that wine-producing...
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Taittinger is undoubtedly one of the Grandes Maisons of Champagne, due to the historical importance of its impressive cellars dug out in Gallo-Roman times. The buildings above it were constructed on the site of the Abbey of Saint-Nicaise, built in the 13th century and completely destroyed during the French Revolution. The champagne house has...
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Terre di Leone is a small winery that has gained renown in the last few years as one of the leading producers of Valpolicella and Amarone. Although a relative newcomer by European standards, its wines have gone from strength to strength, establishing a new, easy-drinking, fruit-forward and fresh style of Valpolicella. The majority of the grapes...
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