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The search for high-quality Cava begins in Penedès

Tracy Ellen Kamens
Features
5 min read
As sparkling wines continue to grow in sales in the U.S., wine drinkers are looking for alternatives to Champagne, but what about higher end imports from Spain? More specifically, is high quality Cava an oxymoron? Although oceans of Spain’s sparkling...

How Valais put the charm in Chasselas

Simon J Woolf
Features
7 min read
Chasselas is one of Europe's most widely planted white varieties, but it's more likely to end up in a juicer or a fruit basket than in a winery.

Fifty Shades of Grenache

Roger Morris
Features
5 min read
I am judge K1. The foreman has that no-nonsense look of a judge who will tolerate no deviation and grant no mercy.

Are you sure you’re an epicure?

Evan Dawson
Features
7 min read
True Epicureanism is much more than the pursuit of pleasure.

Is Coffee the New Wine? Embracing Coffee’s “Third Wave”

Evan Dawson
Features
6 min read
“Toasted nuts, caramel, milk chocolate and tobacco,” sounds like a modern Bordeaux with about ten or fifteen years of age. But we’re not talking about wine. We’re talking about coffee.

Central Otago Terroir Breakdown, Part 2: The Cromwell Basin and Bannockburn

Craig Pinhey
FeaturesWine Spotlight
2 min read
This is the second in a three-part series on the terroirs of Central Otago. After Gibbston and Wanaka, last week, here is a look at the largest winegrowing areas: The Cromwell Basin and Bannockburn, which combine to account for 70%...

Central Otago Terroir Breakdown, Part 1: Gibbston and Wanaka

Craig Pinhey
FeaturesWine Spotlight
2 min read
This is the first of a series of three articles on the terroir of Central Otago, the most southerly wine growing region in the world, at 45 degrees South, marked by a dry, semi-continental climate.

Central Otago Terroir Breakdown, Part III: Bendigo and The Alexandra Basin

Craig Pinhey
FeaturesWine Spotlight
1 min read
This is the last of a three part series on the terroirs of New Zealand’s Central Otago. After Gibbston and Wanaka and The Cromwell Basin and Bannockburn, we are finishing with Bendigo and The Alexandra Basin, the two lowest elevation, most easterly sub-regions.
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