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Dear wine lover
I don't expect sympathy but have to report that I am still waking up at 3 am every morning - the price to pay for a great trip to New Zealand, Chile, Mexico and California. This week's plea for reform in southern Chile, Nick's continued enthusiasm for eating out in Sydney, and my long report on Martinborough and Kumeu River in New Zealand are three of many results, several of them still to come. My picture is of a pair of Rieslings made by Hiro Kusuda that I tasted in Martinborough: a 2015 TBA from local grapes and a 1998 Auslese trocken from Lorch in the Rheingau, made when he was a wine student in Germany. We published lots for you to chew on this week, including an extremely detailed report on Jura wines from Julia and a lovely survey of Sardinia's number one red wine by Tam (it seems that for once other members of the team have got to an Italian wine region before our Italian specialist Walter - who will be in London this weekend for our sellout Brunello Night). I also sadistically contributed the tasting notes from a vertical of Coche-Dury Rougeots, wines that are practically impossible to find. Sorry. You may have better luck hunting down some of the wines in a little selection from Washington state tasted with some of their peers. And you certainly stand a reasonable chance of finding an example of today's wine of the week from... Margaux. Meanwhile we continue to publish entries in our wine writing competition which seem to me quite frighteningly good. Do please read them and get ready to send us your favourites early next month. Please wish me luck in the Land of Nod.
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Mar 03, 2017 09:00 am | Jancis Robinson
Believe it or not, there is an organisation in
Britain called the Circle of Wine Writers. I have belonged to it since 1976
when its chief activity was a monthly press ‘briefing’ at the top of New
Zealand House in London on what was then called the Martini Terrace. (This was when people used to drink big brand
vermouth by itself.) Shepherd’s pie…
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Mar 03, 2017 09:00 am | Jancis Robinson
From €26.35,
HK$362, AU$119.79, £200 a dozen
in bond
Find the 2005
Find the 2007
Find the 2014
Last week I took part in a major blind tasting of
nearly 200 significant 2005 bordeaux now that they have had 10 years in bottle.
I will report on it in detail next week.
One of the more surprising results was just how well Ségla, the…
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Mar 02, 2017 09:00 am | Jancis Robinson
After the Kiwi love-in that was the excellent Pinot Noir NZ
celebration in Wellington (on which I will be reporting in more detail next week, with tasting notes on 185 NZ Pinots, including many enthusiastic ones about Martinborough wines) I spent a couple of days revisiting Martinborough,
the wine region closest to the New Zealand capital and the…
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Mar 02, 2017 09:00 am | Guest contributor
Number 34 in our series of entries to our wine writing competition competition comes from Mark Chien. Age 59, male, currently program
coordinator (2 years) for the Oregon Wine Research Institute at Oregon State
University. Previously viticulture extension educator at The Pennsylvania State
University (15 years), and wine grower on Long Island, NY…
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Mar 01, 2017 09:00 am | Guest contributor
Joss Fowler has contributed to our site several times in the past, and here becomes the 33rd entrant we are publishing as part of the wine writing competition.
SUBJECT TO PHOTOS
It is commonplace in the fine wine market to request
digital photographs of cases and bottles before a deal is made.
Transactions are 'subject to inspection'…
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Mar 01, 2017 09:00 am | Jancis Robinson
At the vertical tasting of one of Coche’s most celebrated
Meursaults at Tan Dinh, Robert Vifian’s famous Vietnamese restaurant in
Paris, described below, I sat opposite someone rather special. Since 1977, via his
friendship with the Rousseaus of Gevrey-Chambertin, Michel Bonnefond has owned
half a hectare of Ruchottes Chambertin, the parcel…
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Feb 28, 2017 09:00 am | Guest contributor
Number 32 in our series of published entries to our wine writing competition comes from Edan Barulfan, whose bio reveals the following:
Male, aged 54, Canadian-born, residing in Israel. Israeli wine writer and journalist, wine judge and instructor. A lawyer by profession. Content
Editor (Hebrew and English) and Member of editorial board at…
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Feb 28, 2017 09:00 am | Julia Harding MW
When Jancis wrote
Jura –
the next small thing?
in 2012, she referred to the region’s ‘increasingly
fashionable vineyards’ and quoted Stéphane Tissot’s view that Jura wines were
‘riding the crest of a wave’, and there has certainly been a steady increase in
exports in the last five years, currently comprising 11% of production. Purple Pager…
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Feb 27, 2017 09:00 am | Tamlyn Currin
It's dusty, windswept, almost African in
its wide-flung spaces and scraggy escarpments. Isolated old farmhouses, propped
up with corrugated iron, shelter rusting car chassis in the yards; wildly pink
bougainvillea tumble over decrepit walls. Sheep dot arid, grazed-up,
grey hillsides that finally give way to vines. A few rows here and there begin
to…
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Feb 27, 2017 09:00 am | Guest contributor
The 31st entrant into our wine writing competition hails from Cincinnati, Ohio, and describes herself as follows:
I am a Level 4 Diploma graduate of the London-based Wine & Spirit Education Trust, as well as a Certified Specialist of Wine (Society of Wine Educators). I've written for Cincinnati’s Venue Magazine, including a feature article on…
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Feb 25, 2017 01:00 am | Nick Lander
All of the world’s great cities today share many of the same
physical characteristics. Most notable is their proximity to water, essential for the
shipping that was to make these cities great: London has the Thames, Paris the
Seine and New York is conveniently sandwiched between the Atlantic and the
Hudson. One of the bequests of the British Empire…
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Feb 25, 2017 01:00 am | Jancis Robinson
A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See Mainly Itata for relevant tasting notes. ‘It’s a fight we are starting, and sometimes we feel like
Braveheart', sighed Beaune-trained winemaker François Massoc pondering the
issues thrown up by the recent forest fires in southern Chile. His Mercedes SUV
notches up 100,000 km a year…
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