Winery

Chateau Beychevelle Masterclass

9 PLACES LEFT ONLY 30 PLACES! SATURDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2022CHATEAU BEYCHEVELLE & DOMAINE DE CHEVALIER MASTERCLASSES Both masterclasses are priced at $70 nett each = $140. We are offering a Special Promotion of $100 for the first 30 readers who book both masterclasses. For details of Domaine de Chevalier Masterclass, please visit https://www.chngpohtiong.com/domaine-de-chevalier-masterclass/ …

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Disciples of Escoffier • Mas de Daumas Gassac Tasting

Basile Guibert regaled participants with the story how his parents came to purchase Mas de Daumas Gassac in 1974 Basile Guibert, whose family are owners of Mas de Daumas Gassac, gave a tasting to the Disciples of Escoffier Singapore Chapter. Guibert regaled participants with the story how his parents purchased the estate …

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Eric Boissenot • World’s Most Important Wine Consultant

Eric Boissenot and CH’NG Poh Tiong at Chateau Beychevelle on 10 May 2022 Two weeks ago, I saw Eric Boissenot – the world’s most important wine consultant – twice in three days. I have known his father, the late, great Jacques Boissenot (1938 – 2014), right-hand man to Bordeaux’s first modern-day wine consultant Professor Emile …

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Beychevelle 1921 & 1961 • 100- & 60-Year Olds

The genius of BORDEAUX is FRESHNESS.  Freshness is the most important, defining quality of the greatest wine region in the world. Other wines also have fruit and tannins but no other great red wine – of as many different chateaux and of as many vintages – possesses the same vivacity, lift, and freshness …

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Quinta do Noval Declares Two 2020 Vintage Ports

Quinta do Noval has declared Quinta do Noval Nacional Vintage Port 2020 and Quinta do Noval Vintage Port 2020. “2020 was a hot and dry year, with a prolonged ripening period throughout the summer that led to an early harvest, as the grapes became fully ripe by early September.” Christian Seely, Managing Director of AXA …

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Cave d’Aze Bourgogne Chardonnay 2020

Grand Frais is a chain in France that has vegetables – including mustard green – most other supermarkets do not carry. Some seafood too including particularly fresh scallops when the shellfish is in season. They have a nice selection of mozzarella and burrata too. Last January, I chanced on this from …

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Champagne Gamet

Family-owned, family-managed, and with the same family producing the wines, CHAMPAGNE GAMET has vineyards located on both the Right Bank and Left Bank of the Marne River. The fourth-generation is in place today, making wines that are fruity, deliciously accessible, dry – even very dry – and textural because of their high percentage …

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Treaty Port vineyards in China sold to DBR Lafite

Treaty Port winery in Shandong has sold its vineyards to its neighbor Domaine de Long Dai, the Chinese winery owned by DBR Lafite for an undisclosed amount, Vino Joy News has learned. The deal was completed last week and the sale includes Treaty Port’s 18 ha vineyards (268 mu) in …

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New Dry Wines

AXA Millesimes’ Managing Director Christian Seely launches new wines Sauternes First Growth Chateau Suduiraut is launching new dry wines. Chateau Suduiraut Vieilles Vignes Grand Vin Blanc Sec and Chateau Suduiraut Pur Semillon Grand Vin Blanc Sec were created in 2020. Crafted in small quantities from a terroir ranked as a Sauternes Premier Cru in 1855, …

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Breaking News!

Brad Pitt’s Fleur de Miraval will be served at the Oscars on 27 March 2022 Champagne Fleur de Miraval will be served at the 94th Academy Awards. The only Champagne house devoted exclusively to rosé, Fleur de Miraval is a partnership between Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt, the Perrin Family of Chateau de Beaucastel in the Rhone …

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