The wine region of Coteaux du Pont du Gard is located in the region of Pays d'Oc of Vin de Pays of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine de la Patience or the Château Mourgues du Grès produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Coteaux du Pont du Gard are Chardonnay, Merlot and Viognier, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Coteaux du Pont du Gard often reveals types of flavors of oaky, cherry or vegetal and sometimes also flavors of melon, cheese or leather.
In the mouth of Coteaux du Pont du Gard is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 32 estates and châteaux in the of Coteaux du Pont du Gard, producing 77 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Coteaux du Pont du Gard go well with generally quite well with dishes of pasta, vegetarian or poultry.
Haut-Brion 2021 released en primeur Château Haut-Brion 2021 was released en primeur at the same price as fellow First Growths Mouton Rothschild and Margaux – €420 per bottle ex-Bordeaux, down 2.8% on last year’s release, according to Liv-ex, a global marketplace for the trade. With an offer price of £5,100 (12x75cl in bond), data from both Liv-ex and analyst group Wine Lister suggested the new release was broadly in-line or slightly under current market prices for several recent vintages. Châtea ...
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 ...
Acker announced in September that it had sold a six-litre bottle of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti’s (DRC) ‘Romanée-Conti’ 2002 at a Hong Kong auction for nearly HK$3.1m (US$398,400). However, it’s understood that the sale of the bottle was subsequently cancelled. Doubts about the wine’s authenticity have been raised by lawyer and wine fraud expert Don Cornwell on the Wine Beserkers website. He also expressed concerns about another wine, a six-litre bottle of DRC Romanée-Conti 2000, which was origi ...
