Wine

For most wine professionals, China still registers as a consumption story — a vast market of imported Bordeaux and Australian Shiraz. But a fundamental shift has been underway for over a decade, and the results are now impossible to ignore. At the …

For decades, the global wine trade’s understanding of Portugal began and ended at the Douro Valley: Port wine, a handful of increasingly respected dry Douro reds, and perhaps a vague awareness that something fizzy existed farther north. That …

Long before the Greeks codified the cult of Dionysus, the Thracians were already deep in devotion to their own god of wine — Zagreus, later syncretized with Dionysus himself. Archaeological evidence from the eastern Balkans points to organized …

Brazil is the world’s fifth-largest grape producer and the third-largest wine producer in the Southern Hemisphere, yet it remains one of the most underestimated origins on the global wine map.¹ For the better part of a century, the …

With 28,000 registered winegrowers, a living orange wine tradition, and three distinct regions spanning Alpine foothills to the Adriatic, Slovenia is the most exciting frontier in European wine. Here is why the trade needs to pay attention.

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So for my first weekend here in the beautiful Pacific Northwest city of Portland, Oregon, I decided to take in a little local flavor. As I am establishing contacts and people to interview I decided to play regular tourist. I started out my day …

They produce some beautiful wines and are now celebrating their 28th harvest. We caught up with Don at the gloriously elegant Bouchon at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas after an amazing meal and wines. Donald was as generous in the pod cast as he was …