The wine region of Château-Chalon is located in the region of Côtes du Jura of Jura of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Jean Macle or the Domaine Bénédicte et Stéphane Tissot produce mainly wines white, sweet and red. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Château-Chalon are Pinot noir et Chardonnay, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Château-Chalon often reveals types of flavors of smoke, vanilla or citrus and sometimes also flavors of minerality, apricot or ginger.
In the mouth of Château-Chalon is a with a nice freshness. We currently count 33 estates and châteaux in the of Château-Chalon, producing 38 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Château-Chalon go well with generally quite well with dishes of spicy food, mature and hard cheese or poultry.
While taller overall vines do exist in regions such as Galicia with their pergola training method, the roots of any vine usually top out at 37cm. It’s at this top point where the Vitis vinifera shoot is grafted in and continues to grow, giving us such grapes as Cabernet Sauvignon or Chardonnay. This is opposed to the rootstocks which are composed of various crosses of vines such as Vitis rupestris which aren’t used for wine production but are resistant to the root louse, phylloxera. This new tal ...
Shirakawa 1958 is the only official single malt bottling from the demolished distillery, and is also said to be the earliest single vintage Japanese whisky bottled to date, although part of its back story remains shrouded in mystery. The whisky was distilled at the Shirakawa distillery, located 200km north of Tokyo, in 1958, and survived an era when Shirakawa’s malt whisky was almost all used in owner Takara Shuzo’s flagship ‘King’ blend. Shirakawa was opened in Fukushima Prefecture by previous ...
Lapierre, a Master of Wine since 2013, is already part of Vint’s investment committee and will step into the new director of wine role as the group looks to grow. He joins Vint from the California-based Vinfolio fine wine group, where he most recently served as president. Vint is one of several groups that has said it wants to make investing in wine as an alternative asset more accessible. Founded in 2019, the group has since 2021 specialised in offering Securities & Exchange Commission-qual ...
