PIWI grapes cross vinifera with wild American and Asian vines to carry the resistance vinifera never had. The German Wine Institute puts the payoff plainly: plant-protection measures cut by up to 80 percent.
Champagne
Nearly every “wine as an asset class” pitch runs on the Liv-ex Fine Wine 1000. Look at how the index is built — 82% Bordeaux and Burgundy — and the phrase begins to narrow.
Every young wine region needs a founding story, and England’s is unusually good. The chalk hills of Champagne, the telling…
Single-vineyard Champagne flips three centuries of house-style blending. From Anselme Selosse in Avize to Cédric Bouchard in the Côte des Bar, a generation of growers now bottles parcels on their own and names the plot on the label. The lieux-dits movement, what it borrows from Burgundy, and why the great houses have begun to notice.
A 15% tariff compounds at every tier of distribution. TERROIR examines how wine tariffs are reshaping prices, consumer habits, and the wines themselves.
A host pours a magnum of Champagne into a wide-bellied crystal decanter and sets it on the table to “let…
A dry-farmed vine in its third leaf is not, on the surface, a sympathetic object. The canopy is sparser than…
Riedel sells thirty-plus varietal glasses. A 2015 Tokyo sniff-cam study and 2001 research show how many wine glass shapes actually matter.
Cover crops in vineyards sequester up to four times the carbon of typical cropland. The science, the trade-offs, and what leading regions now require.
The crown cap is the tell. Lift a bottle of pétillant naturel out of an ice bucket and what stares…