Vinexpo opened last night with a dinner for almost 500 people given by the St Emilion Jurade – the first time the ancient organisation has been in Asia.
Escargot is a dish of cooked land snails, usually served as an appetizer. The word is also sometimes applied to the living snails of those species which are commonly eaten.
The Hungarian wine industry has been showcasing the very best of its white wines at the London Wine Fair at an especially themed Furmint Bar. Following success in Europe, the UK on-trade is now in the Hungarian’s sights and the Furmint Bar was a way of introducing it to the trade.
Travelling north from the ancient wine regions of Graves and Sauternes we come to the Médoc, and first of all to the wines known as Margaux. There are a number of villages here, some of which will be vicariously familiar - Cantenac, for example, as in Brane-Cantenac, Cantenac-Brown and Boyd-Cantenac - but it is Margaux that has come to dominate, giving its name not only to the appellation as a whole, but also the region’s only Premier Grand Cru Classé estate, Chateau Margaux.
Aubert de Villaine was officially crowned as Decanter’s 2010 Man of the Year at a star-studded dinner in London last night. De Villaine has been the director of Burgundy’s legendary Domaine de la Romanée-Conti since 1974, having started working there ten years previously. He is also the winemaker.
In The Past Decade, On-Premise Sales of Tawny Ports Have More Than Tripled. Tawny Port is a type of fortified wine produced only in Portugal’s Port region.
A group of former Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnels are boycotting the new Alliance Cru Bourgeois system, and forming their own group. The members of the group include Chateau Chasse Spleen, Chateau Les Ormes de Pez, Chateau de Pez, Chateau Potensac, Chateau Poujeaux and Chateau Siran.
Potential Chinese wine consumers are currently a drop in the ocean but opportunities for growth of imported wines will exist in the next 10-15 years, Wine Intelligence announced at the London Wine Fair.
Pairing wine with fish or seafood can be daunting. Yes, white wines are generally the right choice but which ones? Choose a dry white when you need a full-bodied, lush wine and you will be disappointed. What about seafood with heavy sauces like barbecue or tomato sauce?
To make this dish the traditional Roman way, mix the cheese, eggs, pepper, and pork in a bowl to create a thick sauce before tossing it with the pasta.
Orvieto, “the wine of the popes”, has a history as rich as its flavor. Popes, princes, and artists visiting from Rome and Florence, two of its neighboring cities, once sipped this abboccato, or semi-sweet wine. The medieval city of Perugia makes up the hills that surround the Umbrian capital city of Orvieto.
Sauternes and Barsac are the two most ancient regions of the left bank, predating the vineyards of the Médoc by many centuries. The Garonne no doubt contributes to some extent as it sweeps past the vineyards, but it is its tiny tributary the Ciron that perhaps makes the more significant contribution to Sauternes.
