Doing my best to get inspired from home and have had a look at what the hard-hit French are doing. After all, they have consumed more rosé wine than white for a few years now.
They have obviously not...
Just imagine. My first memory of being taken to a fine-dining restaurant was as a very small boy.
An American friend (we thought all Americans were rich) took my mother and I out for a rare treat and,...
Last week we featured wineries, that out of the hundreds of thousands worldwide, were selected to be among the top 50.
Taking first place overall was Catena, followed by Penfolds, Torres and 19 Crime...
I have often been told that the wine trade was a fortunate choice as folks will not only have a glass to celebrate good times, but also if they need a little cheering up.
According to a Nielsen surve...
Let’s finish the progression from a few weeks ago, where we started with very small production wines, to our most recent column when we featured some of our biggest brands.
This week I would like to ...
A few weeks ago I wrote about very small production wines and so today I thought that we could read about the other end of the spectrum. I often refer to these major worldwide brands as “the wines tha...
I asked The Royal Gazette if they still wanted me to submit an article for today and they replied in the affirmative.
One friend suggested that I write about the antiseptic character of alcohol and s...
It is difficult to get an up-to-date picture of wine imports to China, as their overall consumption grew by about 80 per cent between 2013 and 2018 and their own acres of vineyards are now firmly in s...
As I think back to that fateful day of March 15, 44BC and the demise of Julius Caesar, I can’t help but be concerned for the wellbeing of friends now in northern Italy. Today, I will tell you more of ...
The esteemed Château Lafite Rothschild makes 15,000 to 20,000 cases a year. Château Latour produces 18,000 cases, Château Haut- Brion 10,000 to 12,000, Château Margaux around 12,000 and Mouton Rothsch...
