The wine region of Krasnodar of Russia. Wineries and vineyards like the Gunko Winery or the Gunko Winery produce mainly wines red, white and sparkling. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Krasnodar are Chardonnay, Cabernet-Sauvignon and Merlot, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Krasnodar often reveals types of flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of non oak, oak or vegetal.
We currently count 32 estates and châteaux in the of Krasnodar, producing 81 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Krasnodar go well with generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or vegetarian.
By 1965, the vineyards of Condrieu had largely been abandoned – phylloxera and two world wars had decimated the place and its people. There were just 8ha of vines remaining on these granite slopes. If it weren’t for the hard work of a few steadfast vignerons, the appellation might have disappeared entirely, reclaimed by the forest. Thankfully, Condrieu survived and has since flourished – but great appellations have been lost before. We know this because some have recently been rediscovered. In f ...
The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...
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