The wine region of Cowra is located in the region of Central Ranges of Nouvelle-Galles du Sud of Australia. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Pig In The House or the Domaine Brokenwood produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Cowra are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Mourvèdre, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Cowra often reveals types of flavors of earth, oak or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of black fruit, tree fruit or non oak.
In the mouth of Cowra is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 10 estates and châteaux in the of Cowra, producing 27 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Cowra go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).
The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...
Total sales at the Hospices de Nuits-St-Georges 2022 auction reached €2.49m ($2.74m) from 109 ‘pièces‘ of wines from the Burgundy 2021 vintage, said organisers. Held on Sunday 20 March, sales rose by nearly 30% on last year’s auction, which hit €1.9m from 114 pièces of 2020-vintage wines. One pièce is equivalent to 288 bottles. Sales were €1.6m back in 2020, and this year’s record total is more evidence of Burgundy’s strong momentum on the fine wine market. It also suggests the annua ...
In November of 2021, Spain’s DO Penedès announced a massive overhaul of their bylaws with many changes aimed at re-orienting the region via a “10-year plan”. One of the key aspects was a new classification system for the estates of the region called, “Vi de Mas”, the first five of which have just been certified. While most wine regions looking to implement a system use the so-called “Burgundian Pyramid” as a structure, Penedès took a different approach that merged some of the Burgundian sy ...
