The wine region of Haut-Montravel is located in the region of Montravel of South West of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Château Puy-Servain or the Château Pique-Segue produce mainly wines sweet, white and red. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Haut-Montravel are Muscadelle, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Haut-Montravel often reveals types of flavors of honey, non oak or earth and sometimes also flavors of oak, oaky or microbio.
We currently count 6 estates and châteaux in the of Haut-Montravel, producing 7 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Haut-Montravel go well with generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or sweet desserts.
The ‘Freedom Blend’blend uses a combination of indigenous grape varieties from Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova to symbolise and celebrate freedom in those countries. Purcari is located just 15 miles from the Ukrainian border. It has turned its luxury suites, tasting rooms and conferences rooms into emergency accommodation, housing more than 5,000 people that have fled war-torn Ukraine in the wake of the Russian invasion. The award-winning winery – which claimed best-in-show, platinum an ...
Some Cornas estates, like Domaine Clape, feel as ancient and unchanging as the granite hills themselves. Others, like Domaine Alain Voge, go through periods of flux. When this is due to vineyards being ripped out, bought or sold, then the whole profile of an estate can be altered. That’s not the case at Voge. Instead, it’s due to the coming and going of people and the unavoidable change that entails. I visited Lionel Fraisse, the current managing director at Domaine Alain Voge, to taste a select ...
Ardbeg single malt whisky, based on the southern shores of Scotland’s island of Islay, has recently unveiled Fon Fhòid: the latest in a number of highly unusual experiments. Back in 2014, the distillery team lead by whisky creator, Dr Bill Lumsden and former distillery manager, Mickey Heads (now retired) took the highly unusual approach of burying two already matured casks of Ardbeg underneath the peat bogs themselves, (burning peat smoke is normally used to dry the malted barley during producti ...
