The wine region of Isla de Menorca is located in the region of Iles Baléares of Spain. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Torralbenc or the Domaine Bodegas Binifadet produce mainly wines white, red and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Isla de Menorca are Merlot, Chardonnay and Cabernet-Sauvignon, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Isla de Menorca often reveals types of flavors of plum, black currant or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of earth, tree fruit or citrus fruit.
In the mouth of Isla de Menorca is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 11 estates and châteaux in the of Isla de Menorca, producing 38 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Isla de Menorca go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal.
Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon ‘space vines’ that were fired into orbit alongside bottles of Petrus 2000 have been nurtured alongside their ‘daughter’ plants in western France, said researchers in an update on the project. ‘The first “space grapes” are now visible on the canes just a few months after the replanting phase that occurred in February 2022,’ said Space Cargo Unlimited, the start-up leading the project. A total of 320 vine canes spent more than a year on the Int ...
Plans have been approved for what will become Islay’s 12th Scotch malt whisky distillery. Laggan Bay is set to be developed by whisky bottlers and brewers The Islay Boys, in association with Ian Macleod Distillers. Argyll and Bute Council has granted planning permission for the distillery, which The Islay Boys said will produce ‘a traditional, double-distillation Islay whisky’, at Glenegedale in Laggan Bay, close to the island’s airport. The new development, on a two-hectare site, will also incl ...
The Francs de Pied (Ungrafted Vines) group, which last met two weeks ago at Pasquet’s Liber Pater winery in the Graves, consists of a growing circle of vignerons who work with ungrafted vineyards planted to native varieties. The list includes Francs de Pied president Loïc Pasquet himself, vice-president Egon Müller (Mosel), and secretary Andrea Polidoro of Cupano (Montalcino) and Contrada Contro (Marche); as well as Gocha Chkhaidze of leading Georgian winery, Askaneli; Thibault Liger-Belair (Bur ...
