The flavor of guava in wine of Luxembourg
Discover the of Luxembourg wines revealing the of guava flavor during the olphactive analysis (nose) and during the gustative analysis (mouth).
Luxembourg (officially the "Grand Duchy of Luxembourg") is a landlocked country at the junction of Belgium, Germany and France. It is a small country compared to its neighbours, stretching 80 km from North to South and 50 km from west to east, covering just over 2,500 square kilometres. Only 1% of this area is devoted to wine growing.
Located in the north of Western Europe, it is one of the coolest wine regions in the world.
In the north of the country, the Ardennes hills and forests dominate the topography. Forest accounts for a third of the country's land and the north is sparsely populated.
The vast majority of Luxembourg's 620,000 inhabitants live in the southern half of the country.
Wine production in Luxembourg has been in Slight decline since the late 1990s, with annual production currently at around 80,000 hectoliters (8 million liters or 2.
1 million U. S. gallons).
Viticulture is centered in the southeastern Part of Luxembourg, where the Mosel River (known as the Moselle) forms the national border with Germany.
The new range, drawn from whisky stocks laid down by the Gordons for almost a century and named after the family home in Dufftown, comprises The Charles Gordon Collection – in 2022, four whiskies priced at £3,000-4,500 per bottle – and The Legacy Collection – four whiskies priced at £950-1,450. They include the first spirit produced at the Girvan grain distillery in South Ayrshire in 1964, and a 56-year-old whisky, unusually blended as new make spirit before its maturation. ‘This is a collection ...
Inside the February 2022 issue of Decanter Magazine: FEATURES: Wines of the Year An extraordinary tasting, our best ever, of 126 wines put forward by Decanter’s experts and staff, resulted in these 51 top-scorers Your choice: why you bought that wine But was it really? Rolfe Hanson uncovers a host of decision makers involved in you picking that one bottle Burgundy 2020: vintage report Charles Curtis MW on the standout wines of this exceptional if hot year Producer profile: Château-Grillet Matt ...
Do growers make wine – or do markets? Growers, of course. Yet markets define the scope of the grower’s creative efforts by what they reward or sanction. When markets are neglectful and unresponsive, there’s little the grower can do but conform. It’s a problem the world over. Here’s an example. The river Moselle/Mosel rises to the wet west of the Vosges mountains, then curves in a long green arc heading north through Epinal, Metz and (along the left bank) Luxembourg’s Grand Duchy, turning east at ...