Wine Reviews

The name of this property first appeared in land registers in the year 1715.  After changing hands several times, after the phylloxera plague and following a devastating fire in 1981, the port house was bought by AXA Millésimes in 1993.  What sets this port house apart from most of the others, is the care given and importance it attached to the...
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Valais is the largest quality wine producing region of a country little known for its wine - Switzerland.  Located in the southwest of the country, the Valais can be considered to be the most northern wine-producing area of the Rhône region. Domaine Gerald Besse is located in the Valais and was founded in 1984, going from a few hectares in 1979...
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Wine growers since 1687, the Tarlants are the finest example of a family champagne house. Champagne Tarlant has its facilities in Oeuilly, on the left bank of the Marne, and has 14 hectares with five different geological subsoils, divided into four 'crus' and 55 parcels. The Tarlants respect the integrity of the grape and the physiological...
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Bruno Giacosa is nicknamed "the teacher" in Italy and he heads the school of wine made ​​with a view to the long-term.  These are wines specifically intended to grow over time, where nerve and breeding, slow evolution and steady aromatic development, are the dominant traits. To enjoy the result of all of this, patience is required: Giacosa’s wines...
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It was in this bodega that the new Priorat movement began. René Barbier is considered the father of “Modern Priorat”, an era which started in the late 1980’s and crystallised into the “Clos” movement.   He was the first to have real belief in the area’s potential to produce world-class wines. Barbier was a visionary who brought together and...
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The Montezemolo family is one of Piedmont’s oldest noble families.  Although they deserve enormous credit for their wines, their name is also closely associated with the famous "Scuderia Ferrari". The work in both the vineyards and the winery is meticulous, resulting in creations which exemplify the fusion of traditional processes with the modern...
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Founded in 1879, the premises of the Compañía Vinícola del Norte de España (known as CVNE or Cune), is made up of a cluster of buildings, mainly from the 19th Century, arranged around a patio surrounded by facilities for winemaking, ageing and bottling.   The Company is remarkable for various reasons: its size, its family character, the...
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Warre's is the oldest British port shipper in Oporto.  The company started out by bartering English wool and cod in exchange for the soft wine from the Minho region, today known as "vinho verde".  The company was founded back in 1670.  Warre’s ports are considered to be among Portugal's finest.  Most of the grapes come from their own estate, the...
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Serge Hochar produces one of the best wines in the world…not in Bordeaux, not in Napa or the Moselle.. but in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon.  Its name is Château Musar, it was founded in 1930, and it is considered to be Lebanon’s best winery.  It has 180 hectares of vineyards growing at an altitude of 1,000 metres in Bekadalen to the north of...
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