The wine region of Champagne Grand Cru 'Louvois' is located in the region of Champagne Grand Cru of Champagne of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Pierson Cuvelier or the Domaine Pierre Boever produce mainly wines sparkling. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Champagne Grand Cru 'Louvois' are Chardonnay, Pinot noir and Pinot blanc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Champagne Grand Cru 'Louvois' often reveals types of flavors of apples, toasty or non oak and sometimes also flavors of microbio, tree fruit or green apple.
In the mouth of Champagne Grand Cru 'Louvois' is a powerful with a nice vivacity and a fine and pleasant bubble. We currently count 4 estates and châteaux in the of Champagne Grand Cru 'Louvois', producing 10 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Champagne Grand Cru 'Louvois' go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish.
The fifth of Redbreast’s Dream Cask offerings, released to mark World Whisky Day tomorrow (Saturday 21st May), is a 30-year-old single pot still whiskey produced by Irish Distillers at its Midleton Distillery in Co Cork. Unlike previous single-cask releases, this year’s Dream Cask combines two casks chosen as their favourites from Midleton’s vast inventory by master blender Billy Leighton and blender Dave McCabe. Leighton’s cask is a first-fill Oloroso Sherry butt filled in May 1990, while McCab ...
The deal includes 34.5ha under vine in the heart of the mountainous Bannockburn sub-region. It is mainly planted with Pinot Noir, but there are pockets of Chardonnay and Riesling too. Sir Clifford Skeggs, a Kiwi businesmman, and Lady Marie Skeggs purchased the land for Akarua in 1995, and planting began the following year. The first wines were bottled from the 1999 vintage. Akarua is now firmly established as one of the largest family-owned operations in Central Otago, and its 100% estate-grown ...
‘When I started producing wine, the wineries were all in a very bad condition,’ said Askaneli Brothers president Gocha Chkhaidze, recalling the poor state of the Georgian wine industry shortly after the country declared its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. ‘There was inadequate sanitation, a lack of know-how and old-fashioned bottling lines. People were unable to make wine sustainably, vineyards were not sufficiently cared for, agronomists were unskilled and used to harvest the maximu ...
