The flavor of watermelon in wine of Racha-Lechkhumi

What’s your perfect summer paring? For us, its afternoon picnics, late night outdoor dinners, casual BBQs and backyard catch-ups with a delicious bottle of wine. With results recently announced from Decanter World Wine Awards 2023 (where more than 18,200 wines were evaluated by some of the world’s top wine experts), and a particularly bright spring leading into a promising summer, we can think of a few top-rated wines to beat the heat. Whether you’re a lover of the classics, an ...

A little background first. The unstitching of France’s colonial empire in North Africa between 1956 and 1962 intensified political tensions on Corsica as well as giving rise to an ill-starred attempt by recently arrived French-Algerian wine farmers to turn Corsica’s eastern plains into a gigantic factory vineyard. Between 1960 and 2000, production rose four-fold – then collapsed. Away from the plains in the higher-quality appellation zones, meanwhile, an undiscerning tourist market combined with ...

I first contributed to Decanter back in November 1988; the hundreds of columns and articles I’ve written since constitute a journey of discovery. I squirm, though, if I’m described as a ‘wine expert’. Whatever wine knowledge we acquire quickly cools, congeals and crusts over, like custard or gravy, as the years pass. The wine world expands at a clip. Every vintage rewrites history. It’s the chance to share discoveries – not just about wines, but about people, places and the act of drinking itsel ...