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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 ...

The Fladgate Partnership has launched its first table wine division after purchasing around 200 ha of vineyards in Vinho Verde, Dão and Bairrada. The company, which produces Taylor’s, Croft, Fonseca and other port brands, purchased the quintas from Ideal Drinks for an undisclosed sum. They include the 53 ha Quinta da Pedra, one of the leading estates in Vinho Verde, located in the heart of the Monção and Melgaço sub-regions. It has also taken on another Vinho Verde estate – the 24 ha Paço de Pal ...

Thousands of wine lovers, sommeliers and trade professionals across the world have benefited from Lenoir’s educational tools over the past four decades. He was born into a winemaking family in Burgundy, and he often joked that he learned to taste as he learned to walk. Lenoir was a paratrooper during the Algerian War, and he then pursued a career at the Maison de la Culture in Chalon-sur-Saône. He was eventually promoted to assistant director, but he never lost his passion for wine, and he studi ...