Wines made from Nero d'Avola grapes - Page 5

Part of the auction house’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, the sale runs until next Tuesday, 14 June, and also includes one-off collaborations with artist Ini Archibong and photographer Trey Ratcliff. The two refill American oak hogshead casks, supplied from Diageo’s Casks of Distinction VIP private cask purchase programme, both have pre-sale estimates of £700,000-1.2m. The Port Ellen cask was filled on 15 February 1979, has a current strength of 52.9% abv and is estimated to hold 102 bottles. T ...

The paddles flew high during the signature auction of the fourth annual Spring Wine Weekend, held at Round Pond Estate in Rutherford, California in May 2023. The charity event is held over a long weekend annually to support Alzheimer’s research. Inspire founder Kerrin Laz’s mother was diagnosed with younger-onset Alzheimer’s in 2014. After realising that many in her own Napa community had been similarly affected, Laz established Inspire Napa Valley ‘to help support the cause’. It’s one of the mo ...

I’m a massive fan of English sparkling wines, which are getting better with every vintage, aided by the changing climate, of course – the grapes are filling up with sun, and you can taste that in the glass. So how can we convince consumers not to overlook English sparkling wine, and show them that it is a real contender: often just as good, if not better than Champagne? Perhaps by pitting the two against each other in a special blind tasting by the experts, Judgement of Paris style. Judgement of ...