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Vinitaly teams up with Wine Spectator to present OperaWine.
This March, if you’re heading to Vinitaly in Verona, Italy, take a tip from us and make sure to get tickets for OperaWine. This is the first time that 100 of the best Italian wines will be presented at a Grand Tasting on 24th March from the country’s top producers.
Snoot’s Gregory Dal Piaz take on Brunello.
The warm growing season has endowed many of these wines with the richness associated with great vintages of Brunello. The wines also retain expressive aromatics which is another check in the plus column. One minus that continues to mark Brunello is the temptation to produce bigger or “more important” wines, but Brunello does not need to be a powerhouse wine! Let it be the medium-bodied if richly expressive Sangiovese it wants to be.
Dean Aslin looks at disruption in the Australian wine scene.
When it comes to new world Shiraz few have the reputation that Australia’s Barossa Valley does but recently its southern neighbour has been grabbing the attention and deservedly so.
McLaren Vale lies to the South East of South Australia’s capital city, Adelaide, and it is a much cooler climate than the Barossa with sea breezes on most afternoons. Whilst there has never been any doubt about the high standard of wines coming from the region it is now getting a lot of attention because of the awards and accolades it is receiving for their exceptional Shiraz.
Chinese wines making an impact.
At a recent blind tasting competition between Chinese wine and Bordeaux in Beijing, the results were surprising. Chinese wine took the top four places, but it wasn’t exactly a thrashing of the world’s most elite wines by Chinese upstarts. (Reuters)
We look into the flagship wines of the world’s leading wine countries.
What’s the wine or grape that first springs to mind when someone mentions France, Spain, Argentina or New Zealand? Bordeaux, Tempranillo, Malbec, Sauvignon Blanc? These are considered the “flagship wines” of those specific countries – their ambassadors as such. But do they really bring value to their motherland’s wine industry, or do they shine so bright that they stultify it?
Macaron and port pairing.
Award-winning executive pastry chef Herve Lemonon from the Cake Shop at the Mandarin Macau makes a mean macaron. This time around, we’re pairing his delicious coffee macaron with port.
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