Wines made from Gamay noir grapes of France - Page 3

When I started my nomadic winemaking project, in 2018 at Niepoort Vinhos in Portugal’s Douro region, I had no idea how large a part Spain would go on to play – I certainly never intended to make it the locus of my project. So how did it happen? Yes, there was an element of chance and taking opportunities where they arose. But also, among the talented winemakers to whom I pitched collaborations, I sensed an openness and a readiness to collaborate which seemed particular to Spain. Held in June las ...

New figures from trade group New Zealand Winegrowers show that annual exports of New Zealand wine surged to NZ$2.4bn (£1.17bn) in the year to May 2023. That was largely down to the ongoing demand for the idiosyncratic flavours that New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc offers. It has long been a staple of UK supermarket shelves and restaurant lists, but is now beginning to conquer America too. ‘New Zealand wine, particularly Sauvignon Blanc, is going from strength to strength in the USA, as consumers appr ...

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 ...