The wine region of Alsace Grand Cru 'Praelatenberg' is located in the region of Alsace Grand Cru of Alsace of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Cave Vinicole Les Faîtières - Orschwiller-Kintzheim or the Cave Vinicole Les Faîtières - Orschwiller-Kintzheim produce mainly wines white and sweet. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Alsace Grand Cru 'Praelatenberg' are Riesling, Gewurztraminer and Pinot gris, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Alsace Grand Cru 'Praelatenberg' often reveals types of flavors of tropical, peach or lemon and sometimes also flavors of honey, lychee or oil.
In the mouth of Alsace Grand Cru 'Praelatenberg' is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 7 estates and châteaux in the of Alsace Grand Cru 'Praelatenberg', producing 12 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Alsace Grand Cru 'Praelatenberg' go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food.
China was previously Australia’s leading export market, with sales worth $1.2 billion in the year to September 2020. However, Beijing then imposed a 212% tariff on imported wine from Australia as a retaliatory measure after Canberra called for an international investigation into China’s handling of the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Trade minister Simon Birmingham called it ‘a very distressing time for many hundreds of Australian wine producers, who have built in good faith a sound market in China’ ...
Guillermo de Aranzabal Bittner, a director at La Rioja Alta, said the company had acquired 35ha of old vines, with a minimum age of 45 years, in the village of Elvillar at an average altitude of 600 metres. He also said La Rioja Alta would buy more old vines this year, bringing total ‘artisanal vineyard’ acquisitions to a minimum of 5oha, and potentially up to 75ha, by the end of 2022. ‘We are buying very old vineyards, pruned in the traditional way with very low production, some of which are fi ...
Disconcerting: I couldn’t forget this bottle for days afterwards. Still can’t. Back in August, wine critic Lin Liu MW (together with her partner Philippe Lejeune of Château de Chambert in Cahors) came to dinner, en route to a short holiday in Provence. One of the bottles Lin brought for us to try together was the 2018 Les Rocheuses, Parcelles No 5 et 6, from Château Le Rey in Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux. It came in a slope-shouldered bottle, not a classic Bordeaux bottle. We tried it with some R ...
