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Sipping Siepi with the Best of 'Em
Gnocchi with girolles, chanterelles and black truffle paired with the 2011 vintage of Castello di Fonterutoli's super-Tuscan Siepi, at a...
Oct 28, 2020


The New Order at Luce: New Wine, Winemaker and Winery and a Retrospective Tasting
Looking across the Luce vineyards to Frescobaldi's Tenuta di Castelgiocondo in southwest Montalcino in the November sunshine The text of...
Apr 7, 2020


Down in a deep, dark sea... Drappier Champagnes
Encrusted sea-aged Grande Sendrée 2008 and a pristine bottle conventionally matured in Drappier's Champagne cellars in the Aube Why age...
Oct 25, 2019


A Rioja legend in its own lifetime: Roda's 30th anniversary tasting
Clams and Galician blond breed beef (Rubia gallega) at Asador Etxebarri, where everything is grilled over wood fires, using different...
Aug 13, 2019


Château Lafon-Rochet 2006-2016: coming full circle
Ten years after returning to Saint-Estèphe to take the helm at the family's fourth-growth estate, Basile Tesseron showed the results at a...
Oct 5, 2018


La Conseillante: freshness, clarity and grace 1982–2011
The text of this article originally appeared in The World of Fine Wine, issue 53 A seated tasting of nine vintages of La Conseillante...
Jan 12, 2018


Antinori Guado al Tasso 1998–2011 and Matarrochio 2007–2011
This article originally appeared in The World of Fine Wine, issue 51 A tasting billed as a UK first is tempting by any standard, but when...
Dec 12, 2017
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