Californian wines to be served at Trump and Xi Jinping’s dinner Written by : Michelle Koh At the dinner held at Mar-a-Lago residence hosted by Trump for the President of China, Xi Jinping, Californian wines were the wines of choice. Trump’s intention to serve McDonald’s hamburger at the bilateral dinner was scraped and went with…
Angry French winemakers wreck Spanish bag-in-box wines Frustration over cheap Spanish imports spilled into supermarket aisles in southern France after local winemakers wrecked bag-in-box wines brought across the border. Winemakers staged a protest by destroying Spanish bag-in-box wines at a branch of the Carrefour supermarket near to Montpellier in France’s Languedoc-Roussillon region, according to French…
Tasting wine stimulates your brain more than maths, says neuroscientist Tasting wine engages more of our brain than any other human behaviour, according to the findings of a leading neuroscientist in the US. From the first sight of the wine bottle to manipulating the wine in your mouth and then swallowing it, there is a…
Introducing Lafite Rothschild Lafite Rothschild is undoubtedly the creme de la creme of all first growths. Here, we take a closer look on Lafite Rothschild. Owner: Baron Eric de Rothschild Classification: Premier Grand Cru (First Growth) Vineyard area: 112 hectares Colour: Red Standard blend: Cabernet Sauvignon (80-95%), Merlot (5-20%), Cabernet Franc (0-5%), and Petit Verdot (0-5%). Total annual production: 420,000 to 480,000…
First Growths Moving Towards 2011 High? In February, the Liv-ex 1000 index has reached another record high for the 7th month in a row! As we clearly recall, the index has reached it’s peak in 2011 when the market was at its highest speculated by the Chinese and ultimately started a descent in 2011 and…
Lafite, Mouton And Dom Perignon At The Top In March, the week of 17th-23rd March saw the trade by volume rise 17%. Bordeaux’s share has risen 0.9%, Champagne has gone up 4.4%. The USA market has accounted for 3.3% of the Champagne’s trade by volume. The Fine Wine 50 Index has continued to rise 0.2%…
Bordeaux 2016 en primeur: Rush to taste despite global uncertainty Bordeaux châteaux need to put extra staff in their tasting rooms this week as early signs suggest historically high number of tasters and merchants are heading to taste barrel samples of the 2016 vintage in what has been described by some as the region’s equivalent…
Neal Martin releases in-bottle scores for Bordeaux 2014 This week, Neal Martin who has taken over from Robert Parker published a report containing in-bottle scores for Bordeaux 2014. He suggests that, “2014 Bordeaux is a very good to excellent vintage, however it is unequivocally not in the same realm as 2005, 2009 or 2010, nor…
Article 50: Wine leaders lobby for interim deal after Brexit Wine producers, importers and retailers have united across the English Channel to call for a transitional deal that keeps trade flowing after the UK made good on its promise to trigger Article 50 and start the Brexit stopwatch. Around 55% of wine imported into the…
Bordeaux 2016: What merchants and traders are saying about price Bordeaux should make fewer pricing decisions ‘behind closed doors’, says a report ahead of en primeur tasting week as new research suggests international merchants are hoping that 2016 prices won’t sour the fine market’s recovery story. Liv-ex, the online wine trading platform, said today (29…