The wine region of Landes is located in the region of Comté Tolosan of Vin de Pays of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Laballe or the Domaine Laballe produce mainly wines sweet, red and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Landes are Cabernet franc, Tannat and Cabernet-Sauvignon, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Landes often reveals types of flavors of grapefruit, tropical or peach and sometimes also flavors of minerality, earth or vegetal.
We currently count 17 estates and châteaux in the of Landes, producing 77 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Landes go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish.
According to China’s General Administration of Customs, the seized goods consisted of more than 1,000 bottles of Penfolds from Australia and over 100 bottles of top-end Bordeaux wine, including first growth labels such as Château Lafite Rothschild and Château Margaux. The Chinese customs authorities discovered the cases of illegally imported bottles by checking the amount of wine declared on the offending company’s documents against the actual number of items being transported. The smuggled good ...
Penfolds has announced it is to launch its second rare wine NFT with direct-to-consumer wines and spirits NFT platform BlockBar. The second rare release will comprise limited edition NFTs tied to 300 bottles of Penfolds Magill Cellar 3 Cabernet Shiraz from the 2018 vintage. Crafted under the watchful eye of chief winemaker Peter Gago, recipient of the Decanter Hall of Fame award last year, the wines will not be available from retail, nor Penfolds Cellar Doors. The release coincides with BlockBar ...
Amanda Barnes has been awarded the John Avery Award for her The South America Wine Guide book, which was described as ‘heralding a new era’ in wine travel books. The book, which is the result of a decade of research conducted by Barnes while travelling the continent, details the wine regions, wines and producers of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia and Peru. It highlights over 70 wine regions and maps out 40 in detail — many of which have never before been mapped or documented in the En ...
