Boinot succeeds D’USSÉ founding cellar master Michel Casavecchia, becoming the youngest female cellar master of the major houses in Cognac. HAMILTON, Bermuda, /PRNewswire/ — D’USSÉ Cognac is proud to announce Agathe Boinot as the second cellar master in its history. She succeeds the brand’s founding cellar master Michel Casavecchia, who retired earlier last month. The appointment marks Boinot as the youngest…
—Tuscany-Based Wine Takes Top Honors; Full List of Top 100 Wines of 2023 Available at WineSpectator.com— New York, NY —Wine Spectator, the world’s leading authority on wine, announced Argiano Brunello di Montalcino 2018 as the 2023 Wine of the Year. The full Top 100 list is now available at top100.winespectator.com. This Tuscan winery was once better known in the…
Darby, MT. – Triple Creek Ranch, the legendary Relais & Chateaux mountain ranch getaway in Montana, is famed for its inventive cuisine, ranch activities, and stellar service. Named to the Travel + Leisure 2023 T+L 500 list of the best hotels in the world, and singled out by the publication as Best Resort Hotel, Montana, its award-winning…
List your events celebrating Grenache for free at LocalwineEvents.com/GrenacheDay and Find a Celebration Near You AVIGNON, France, /PRNewswire/ — The Grenache Association – a not-for-profit coalition of fans of the Grenache grape – welcomes the world to celebrate the 13th International Grenache Day on Friday, September 15, 2023. This annual event, held on the third Friday of every September, has been instrumental in spreading…
I’ve done retrospective articles before, and for those I often turn to Google searching my name and the subject so I can refresh my memory and share links. Today I feel reflective without Google and want to share some of my favorite memories, those that involve the first two Napa wineries that I covered as…
What’s on your Bucket List? While a normal person wants to check off going to Mars, driving a racecar or meeting a president, wine writers have lists that almost always include visiting wineries in far off places. Having Shiraz in Australia, Tempranillo in Spain, Chianti Classico in Italy and Malbec in Argentina are on our…
HEALDSBURG, Calif., /PRNewswire/ — Exactly 50 years ago, Dry Creek Vineyard founder and California wine pioneer David S. Stare received the necessary permits to build the first new winery in Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma County, following Prohibition. Founded in 1972, Dry Creek Vineyard paved the way for a renaissance of winemaking and viticulture in the Dry…
If you’ve been watching any of my social media you have figured out that we recently cruised the Adriatic, but once we landed at our final destination – we decided not to make it our final destination. Our good friends, Steve and Vashti Roebuck, invited us to spend a week with them wine tasting in…
Not sure how many of the “130 Castles in the Union” of Bordeaux Eddie and I tasted at the Union des Grands Crus Bordeaux 2022 tasting event, but taste we did! We go to this preview of newly released Bordeaux wines every year – we missed a couple as everyone did when events went on…
Known as the birthplace of winemaking, Georgia’s oenophilic history dates back more than 8,000 years, all the way to the Stone Age. Kakheti has emerged as one of the most exciting and surprising wine destinations in the world with more than 200 indigenous wine varieties linked to this region, and producing locavore Georgian grape types, including Rkatsiteli, Kakhetian…