The wine region of is located in the region of Rio Grande do Sul of Brazil. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Ricieri or the Domaine Familia Marzarotto produce mainly wines sparkling and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of are Marselan, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. In the mouth of is a powerful with a nice vivacity and a fine and pleasant bubble.
We currently count 2 estates and châteaux in the of , producing 2 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish.
Frost returned to French vineyards early this month as France recorded its coldest April night since 1947. Temperatures plunged to minus nine degrees Celsius in some parts of the Champagne region on the night between 3 and 4 April, with minus seven reported in areas around Bordeaux and minus six in Chablis. Some winemakers lit candles and fires between vineyard rows to help protect young buds. Yet while scenes were reminiscent of the devastating frosts that struck French vineyards in April 2021, ...
The Decanter team and our expert contributors are lucky enough to discover and taste some of the world’s finest and most intriguing wines from across the globe every year, many of which are notoriously difficult to find. To help our readers get their hands on our top-rated wines, we are launching a wine club – the Decanter Wine Club – to help bring some of the very best directly to your doorstep. As part of this exciting new initiative, which will initially be available to our ...
Whenever I visit Domaine Richaud, just outside the village of Cairanne, the winemaking team remind me of friends I made at free parties in the 1990s in fields and disused warehouses. I’m not talking dreadlocks and dogs on strings, but there’s always an anarchic frisson in the air. You get the impression they know how to enjoy themselves. Perhaps it’s to be expected, given the radical furrow Marcel Richaud has ploughed. He’s approaching 70 now, but still thrums with pent-up energy, his ice-blue e ...
