As we launch a rare first-fill Sherry cask Macallan, we trace how Sherry casks came to be used for ageing Scotch whisky, and why they’re increasingly rare and sought-after  There’s something unlikely about the pairing of Scotland and Andalusia – the fine single malts of Scotland’s craggy landscape being matured in barrels shipped from the warmth of Jerez, where ...

Cask secrets: why Sherry butts are rarer than ever 

As the first Chablis 2019s are released, we talk to top producers in the region – including Samuel Billaud, Matthieu Mangenot from Domaine Long-Depaquit and Olivier Bailly from Domaine Billaud-Simon – about the vintage
 The growing season in 2019, as is becoming the norm these days, started with a warm February and March, leading to an early budbreak at the ...

Chablis 2019: a first look at the vintage

Ahead of the 2008 vintage’s release, Taittinger’s Chef de Cave Alexandre Ponnavoy talks us through what define’s the house’s much-loved prestige Blanc de Blancs, Comtes de Champagne “First of all, you have to resonate 100% Chardonnay,” declares Alexandre Ponnavoy, Taittinger’s Chef de Cave. “Chardonnay that produces precise, mineral, chiseled, complex wines with a lace-like finish and an ability to age ...

Taittinger Comtes de Champagne 2008: the wait is over

Over his 16-year career as CEO of the estate, Thomas Duroux has come to know Château Palmer’s identity, its nuances and its ability to evolve better than anyone. He has an intimate knowledge of the last 70 vintages of Château Palmer and admits he has already tasted the 2010 vintage more than 100 times during its evolution over the last 10 years. But the decision to ...

We caught up with Thomas Duroux the day before he was due to start harvesting the 2020 vintage to find out the reasoning behind the late 2010 release, what is set to become an annual event for the château.  

Thomas Duroux: Château Palmer Interview

“Two generations ago everyone made Chablis like this. Now I am the only one left,” says Daniel-Etienne Defaix proudly. It is amazing to think that production methods could completely reverse in such a short time, no doubt fuelled by the “Chardonnay boom” of the mid-70s onwards. This insatiable global demand for crisp, clean, saline-tinged Chardonnay has shown no sign of abating ever since. The ...

We explore the traditional methods behind Daniel-Étienne Defaix's wines and how the global thirst for Chablis threatened its existence.

Daniel-Étienne Defaix: Chablis Built to Age

Despite being only 136 hectares in size, the hill of Hermitage is one of the most globally reputed, historical and iconic appellations of the fine wine world. Next week will see us offer a special parcel of Chave back-vintages. Ahead of their release, we examine the last 20 vintages of the red and white wines of Hermitage  The official Hermitage appellation ...

Despite being only 136 hectares in size, the hill of Hermitage is one of the most globally reputed, historical and iconic appellations of the fine wine world. 

Hermitage: Vintage Guide 1999-2018 

Sassicaia, Tignanello, Ornellaia: these fabled Super Tuscans are some of the world’s most desirable wines – kickstarting Italy’s fine wine renaissance, re-defining its reputation and proving what was possible. But how did these lowly table wines rise to the top of the fine wine ranks? For a long time, Tuscany was known merely for its squat jugs of rustic Chianti, ...

Sassicaia, Tignanello, Ornellaia: these fabled Super Tuscans are some of the world’s most desirable wines – kickstarting Italy’s fine wine renaissance, re-defining its reputation and proving what was possible. But how did these lowly table wines rise to the top of the fine wine ranks?

The Super Tuscans: everything you need to know

Chile’s most iconic wines have come on a long way in the last decade. With producers increasingly focusing on expressing site rather than creating a particular style, a handful of areas are emerging as the country’s Grands Crus – as Amanda Barnes reveals. When a red blend from Chile became the first wine from outside Bordeaux to be offered on La Place in 1998, it no ...

Chile’s most iconic wines have come on a long way in the last decade. With producers increasingly focusing on expressing site rather than creating a particular style, a handful of areas are emerging as the country’s Grands Crus – as Amanda Barnes reveals.

Chile's Grand Crus

Châteauneuf-du-Pape’s Château de Beaucastel dates back to the 16th century, but it was only after the Perrin family took control of the estate in the early 1900s that it became one of the most iconic and well-respected wine producers in the Southern Rhône. It was the vision of
Jacques Perrin in particular – who farmed the property organically from 1950 onwards ...

Châteauneuf-du-Pape’s Château de Beaucastel dates back to the 16th century, but it was only after the Perrin family took control of the estate in the early 1900s that it became one of the most iconic and well-respected wine producers in the Southern Rhône.

Château de Beaucastel: beyond tradition

Formed of layers of négociants, courtiers and châteaux, La Place de Bordeaux is not a place at all, but the complex distribution system for the region’s wines – and increasingly the top wines from around the world. Here’s everything you need to know about how it works 
In Bordeaux, you can’t buy wine directly from producers. Instead wines are sold ...

La Place de Bordeaux explained: what it is and how it works

As we launch the September Series – the latest fine wines to be released via La Place de Bordeaux – we look at how these famous names from South America, California, Italy and beyond found their way into Bordeaux’s distribution network For a long time, La Place de Bordeaux – as you might guess from its name – only distributed ...

The rise of the September releases: how La Place went global

The list of fine wines released via La Place de Bordeaux each September grows each year. Here, we introduce three of the most exciting wines joining the line-up in 2020: Beaulieu Vineyards Georges de Latour Private Reserve, Jim Barry The Armagh Shiraz and Wynns John Riddoch Cabernet Sauvignon 
Each September, the new vintages of an exclusive group of fine wines ...

New to La Place this year: Beaulieu Vineyards, Jim Barry + Wynns

Merlot today remains the most planted variety in Bordeaux but its dominance is waning somewhat in an ever warming climate. With “freshness” and “structure” often the buzz words defining the best Bordeaux wines of recent warm vintages – the plush richness and suppleness brought by the merlot variety often seems undersold compared to the role of the Cabernets in the ...

Christian Moueix, Director at Petrus (1970-2008), Trotanoy and La Fleur-Petrus;
John Kolasa of Chateau Rauzan Segla and Chateau Canon (1997-2015); Maylis Marcenat of Chateau Clos de Sarpe; as well as Pascal Baratie of Chateau Haut-Brion - the
First Growth with the highest proportion of merlot in its blend - identify how
global warming is affecting merlot and what this means for its long term future
in the region

Merlot: Part of the Bordeaux Psyche

The De Montille estate of Volnay is one of the most historic in the Cote d’Or, founded in 1730 and family run and owned ever since. Today Etienne de Montille is the ninth generation at the helm. The De Montille story through the ages is a familiar one in Burgundy in which for a long period there was a dwindling ...

Etienne talks us through the De Montille’s bumpy history, it huge growth in vineyard acquisition in recent years, how he learnt to make white wine from his
brother-in-law, who just happened to be Jean Marc Roulot, as well as the mapping out of the different flavour profiles of his most favoured sites at the heart of the domaine in Volnay and neighbouring Pommard.

Domaine de Montille: The Genealogy of the Estate

Marco Simonit has been at the forefront of modern viticulture techniques aimed at protecting old vines from disease and decay ever since vineyards worldwide became crippled by ever-escalating levels of vine disease in the last decade. Since the ban of chemical preventions came into practice across Europe in the early 2000s, vine disease has grown to epidemic proportions, including in ...

In an interview conducted just weeks before lockdown began, Marco outlines the philosophy behind the L’Età Più Bella (With Age Comes Beauty) range of wines

Marco Simonit on Why Old Vines Matter


With the upcoming release of L’Età Più Bella (With Age comes Beauty) – the first collection of wines made exclusively from old vines managed by Marco Simonit – we thought who better to extrapolate the important elements behind Marco’s philosophy than celebrated wine writer and self-confessed 'wine anorak': Jamie Goode. Jamie explores Marco's rise to fame - from his formative ...

Self-confessed 'wine anorak' Jamie Goode explores Marco Simonit’s rise to fame - from his formative years with his grandparents in Friuli, to the establishment of his successful pruning consultancy Simonit&Sirch - and the ideologies that have influenced his first wines made from old vines in Collio

'Wine Anorak' Jamie Goode Meets Marco Simonit

Since 1984 Markus Molitor has been managing his estate in Wehlener at the heart of the the Middle Mosel. Over the last 35 years he has been buying up some of the finest Grand Cru sites in the region. Markus provides a fascinating insight into these widely differing vineyards and how these steep, slate slopes have such a profound effect ...

What Markus Molitor has achieved in Mosel over the last 35 years is nothing short of staggering. Working in the vineyards since the age of ten, inheriting his father’s passion for Mosel’s glory days of the 1880s and 1890s he has taken his inherited 1.5 hectare family estate and expanded it to 120 hectares of some of the finest single vineyards of Mosel. 

Markus Molitor Interview

Markus Molitor shares the fascinating history of Mosel outlining the reasons behind the region's meteoric rise to glory at the end of the nineteenth century, its demise during the two World Wars and then its economic devastation in the 1980s.

 Mosel and the Kingdom of Prussia At the Congress of Vienna in 1815 the Mosel region was assigned to the kingdom ...

Markus Molitor shares the fascinating history of Mosel outlining the reasons behind the region's meteoric rise to glory at the end of the nineteenth century, its demise during the two World Wars and then its economic devastation in the 1980s.

The History of Mosel 1815-2020

Markus Molitor talks us through the terroir profile and characteristics of his top single vineyard cuvees, plotting the wines on the map as we taste the latest vintages from each site. 
Tasting through 24 cuvees from Markus Molitor is a wonderful journey through the Middle Mosel (with four additional cuvees from the Saar region), identifying the nuances of each site ...

We explore the terroir and characteristics of Markus Molitor's top Grand Cru cuvees throughout the Mosel region

Mapping Mosel - Markus Molitor

Our 2019 Bordeaux Discovery Collection Case, features top value picks from across the region. While the top Chateaux and their Grand Vins often steal the limelight, there are a plethora of wines that offer staggering value in this mecca for Cabernet and Merlot based wines. Many of these wines are in fact the lesser-known projects from some of the finest viticultural ...

FINE+RARE 2019 Bordeaux Discovery Case

Our 2019 Quintessential Bordeaux Collection Case features the creme de la creme of the vintage; wines that have captured both the energy and freshness, as well as the fruit purity, synonymous with 2019 Bordeaux. This case includes a handful of wines that sold out immediately on release, including Chateau Pontet-Canet (Pauillac), Chateau Leoville Poyferre (Saint-Julien) and Chateau Moulin Saint-Georges (Saint-Emilion), the fantastic single vineyard site from Chateau Ausone. We have compiled ...

FINE+RARE 2019 Quintessential Bordeaux Collection Case

Klaus Peter Keller is one of the great viticultural success stories of the modern era of fine wine. Just 25 years ago he saw the potential to make world-class wine in a region more famous for making mass produced off dry Riesling. His range of Grand Cru Rieslings, including the cult cuvee “G-Max” are now some of the most expensive ...

Klaus Peter Keller is one of the great viticultural success stories of the modern era of fine wine. Just 25 years ago he saw the potential to make world-class wine in a region more famous for making mass produced off dry Riesling. His range of Grand Cru Rieslings, including the cult cuvee “G-Max” are now some of the most expensive and sought out white wines in the world. His passion for Burgundy have also seen his talents in winemaking go beyond Riesling leading Germany’s renaissance in Pinot Noir production.

Klaus Peter Keller Interview

Head winemaker Jessica Servet has certainly been busy since our last visit to this enchanting vineyard in the hills of Minervois. Following the success of the winery over the last few years, their reputation for producing some of the finest wines in Southern France after adopting biodynamic farming has become infectious in the surrounding area. Jessica has since been elected ...

In anticipation of the latest release of Black Knight – an extraordinary cuvee from Hegarty Chamans, produced only in top vintages and made from their finest sites - we caught up with Jessica to find out more about the 2016 vintage and what makes this secluded vineyard in the hills of Minervois so special.

Behind The Bottle: Black Knight 2016

With the Duclot collection case released on Friday, featuring one bottle of all the First Growths (apart from Chateau Latour), along with a bottle of Petrus, Ausone, Cheval Blanc and Yquem all from the 2019 vintage, we mark the end of what has been arguably the most memorable en primeur campaign for many years and for so many reasons. The quality ...

With the Duclot collection case released on Friday, featuring one bottle of all the
First Growths (apart from Chateau Latour), along with a bottle of Petrus, Ausone, Cheval Blanc and Yquem all from the 2019 vintage, we mark the end of what has been arguably the most memorable en primeur campaigns for many years and for so many reasons. 

2019 Bordeaux En Primeur - Week 5 Update

Earlier this year, one of Napa’s starriest names put on a vertical tasting of its entire 27 vintages for luxury wine, spirits and lifestyle magazine Club Oenologique. Adam Lechmere reflects on the wines, and hears from Bill Harlan himself as he prepares to hand over the reins to his children. Words by Adam Lechmere. Photography by Alexander Rubin. As perhaps ...

Earlier this year, one of Napa’s starriest names put on a vertical tasting of its entire 27 vintages for luxury wine, spirits and lifestyle magazine, Club Oenologique. Adam Lechmere reflects on the wines, and hears from Bill Harlan himself as he prepares to hand over the reins to his children

Three Decades of Napa's Harlan Estate

In the latter part of this week we finally saw the vintage reports and reviews published from the leading critics, including Lisa Perrotti-Brown’s report for The Wine Advocate, two separate reports for Vinous from Antonio Galloni and Neal Martin and Part 1 of Jeb Dunnuck's report also published online. James Suckling and Jane Anson have also continued to release their ...

They are unanimous in declaring the vintage either "outstanding" or "excellent" and wines have performed remarkably consistently across all price points.  More than anything the campaign will be remembered for the price reductions across the board and with plenty of wines now garnering high scores, we look at some noteworthy buys that are still available and some top value-picks from the vintage.

The Critics are Out!

Promotional Book Offer from the Academie du Vin Library To celebrate the 90th anniversary of Chateau Musar, our friends at the Académie du Vin Library have offered FINE+RARE clients an exclusive £5 off ‘Chateau Musar: The Story of a Wine Icon’. To redeem the discount, click here to visit the Académie du Vin website and enter our unique promotional code ...

Chateau Musar: The Story of a Wine Icon

Making Wine Under Conflict “You talk of war, and of civil war. There is nothing civil about war. What happened in Lebanon is that  people fought their wars on our land.”  - Serge Hochar 
Between 1975 and 1990, Lebanon was a mosaic of wars caused by complex shifting
political, geographical, and demographical factors. When 16 years of Civil War
were finally ...

Civil War + Chateau Musar's Fight for Survival

Lebanon's Lost Legacy: Viticulture Most of Chateau Musar’s wine is grown in Lebanon’s Beka'a Valley, a fertile plain about 30km east of Beirut, situated between Mount Lebanon on the west and the Anti Lebanon mountains to the east. Despite being more southerly than the great wine regions of Europe, the Beka'a’s elevated altitude of on average around 1000m above sea ...

The Wines of Lebanon: A Phoenician Phenomenon


Last week we were fortunate to have a one-to-one tasting with Jean-Charles Cazes, the managing director of Chateau Lynch Bages, as well as Chateau Haut-Batailley and Chateau Ormes de Pez. Not only did we have the opportunity to taste the fantastic range of 2019 wines from the estates, but we were also given the opportunity to dig a little deeper ...

FINE+RARE with Jean-Charles Cazes dig a little deeper into what makes Chateau Lynch Bages such a special and unique wine in Pauillac.

Interview with Jean-Charles Cazes of Chateau Lynch Bages

Wow what a week! We said this campaign was going to be fast and the pace only picked up
more in this third week of the campaign with some enormous releases, fantastically priced and very warmly received by those critics who have managed to get reviews out in time. This is as good as En Primeur gets! Flash reviews from top ...

We review all the releases so far and all the highlights you may have missed. Whilst some of the wines have sold out there are still some fantastic buys available. 

2019 Bordeaux En Primeur - Week 3 Update

A huge week of releases from Bordeaux, so much so that the campaign is looking like its going to be a quick one - blink and you might miss it! With so many releases this week including some of the biggest names in any campaign - Chateau Palmer on Monday, Chateau Cos d’Estournel on Wednesday and Chateau Lafite on Friday - we thought ...

2019 Bordeaux En Primeur - Week 2 Update

Francisco Baettig is no doubt Chile’s most celebrated and renowned winemaker. He has been
the head winemaker at Errázuriz for 18 years and alongside proprietor Eduardo Chadwick has been behind the icon wines of Seña and Viñedos Chadwick, a wine that achieved the
first ever perfect 100 point score for a wine from Chile by critic James Suckling for the 2014 vintage. ...

FINE+RARE talks to the Chilean winemaking legend on his new personal winemaking project with friend Carlos de Carlos in the southern volcanic lands of Chile. 

Francisco Baettig Interview

As Europe begins to open up after a difficult Spring, we checked in with Florentine winemaker Bibi Graetz, whose winery, set in the foothills of Florence, looks out over this magical city. Born and raised in the city and being the closest winery to Florence, we thought who best to ask for their top tips when visiting the cultural and ...

We checked in with Florentine winemaker Bibi Graetz, whose winery set in the foothills of Florence, looks out over this magical city. Born and raised in the city and being the closest winery to Florence, we thought who best to ask for their top tips when visiting the cultural and culinary sites, as well as the surrounding vineyards. 

Postcard From Florence - Bibi Graetz

Aerospace engineer turned wine critic Jeb Dunnuck talks to FINE+RARE about his trajectory from discovering wine to becoming one of the world’s leading voices on the Rhône, California and Bordeaux.  The state of Indiana is probably best known as the home of the 200-lap motor race, the Indy 500, but it is little known that it is home to ...

Aerospace engineer turned wine critic Jeb Dunnuck talks to FINE+RARE about his trajectory from discovering wine to becoming one of the world’s leading voices on the Rhône, California and Bordeaux. 

Jeb Dunnuck: Finding His Space

Bordeaux has seen a plethora of good to great vintages over the last 10-15 years most notably 2009, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2018... and now 2019. Speaking with some of Bordeaux's top winemakers in the build-up towards the eventual release of the 2019 vintage, has only further cemented the change in tone in Bordeaux in regard to the expectations of a ...

Has global warming helped push Bordeaux into a golden modern era? What has been the knock-on effects of more regular vintages in Bordeaux? How long will this last and how will it change and shape the future of Bordeaux? 

Bordeaux's Modern Day Golden Age

A prince’s kiss rouses the cursed princess from a century-long slumber in Sleeping Beauty
but the man responsible for Bordeaux’s long-overdue reawakening was not a prince (this being the French Republic after all) but Alain Juppé, France’s former Prime Minister. Bordeaux had been comatosed earning it the nickname la belle endormie but the indefatigable politician has given the city the kiss ...

Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2007, it is now the most desirable place to live in France and was voted “European Best Destination 2015’. The renaissance of Bordeaux is a real-life fairytale.

Bordeaux Revival: A Reinvention of the City

This week we explore the renaissance taking place in Spain’s vineyards, as well as the struggles of its winemaking past. While there have been a handful of iconic and historic producers in Spain dating back to the nineteenth century, their continuity largely relied on their aristocratic connections, whilst the rest of the country wrestled with survival. We speak to one of the ...

We speak to one of the world’s leading wine critics who specializes in Spanish wine – Luis Gutierrez, on the cultural history of wine in Spain and today’s renaissance.

The Spanish Renaissance - A Rediscovery of its Roots

While medical researchers work furiously in search of a vaccine for COVID-19 in 2020,
the response to the phylloxera pandemic in the mid 19th century was remarkably lackadaisical. Following the release of Bollinger’s latest vintage of Vieilles Vignes Françaises, a wine grown from vines planted on its own roots and thus vulnerable to attack by phylloxera, FINE+RARE talks to Denis Bunner, ...

FINE+RARE talks to Bollinger’s Denis Bunner on the history of Vieilles Vignes Françaises

Phylloxera: A Vine Pandemic

Vega Sicilia is undoubtedly Spain’s most famous winery; a true icon in fine wine with a history dating back to 1864. Its success in retaining such a reputation, and in almost complete isolation in the Ribera del Duero region of Spain, is testament to the quality and consistency of its production, although its history has not been without its challenges. ...

We explore the history of Vega Sicilia, the secrets behind its success and the changes afoot as it attempts to retain the traditional methods it has become famous for whilst modernising the winery and updating its processes. 

Vega Sicilia: The Spanish Wine Icon

Just over 25 years ago, French fashion house CHANEL entered into the world of fine wine, purchasing the largely underperforming Margaux Second Growth estate Château Rauzan-Ségla. Two years later they acquired the Saint-Émilion Premier Grand Cru Classé, Château Canon. They have since turned these properties into two of the most in-demand fine wines in Bordeaux today. Last year CHANEL embraced ...

Last year CHANEL embraced their latest endeavour, acquiring Domaine de l’Ile, a prestigious wine estate on the French riviera on the exclusive island of Porquerolles, the largest of the “golden” islands just off the Côte d'Azur. 

Interview with Nicolas Audebert of Domaine de l'Ile

Fine wine demands the perfect glass to provide the ultimate sensory experience but the resting place of the final pour has long been neglected. But it’s all change.   FINE+RARE talks to Europe’s leading glass makers from the 250-year old Austrian family-run firm Riedel to the young dynamo behind Grassl, which launched in 2018. We also speak
to Master of Wine ...

Fine wine demands the perfect glass to provide the ultimate sensory experience but the resting place of the final pour has long been neglected. But it’s all change.  

Fine Wine Glasses - Function versus Aesthetics

Xavier Vignon could best be described as a maverick winemaker whose inquisitive mind and extraordinary experiments have taken him on journeys all around the world, working on some of the must cutting edge developments in today’s burgeoning wine scene. Initiated into oenology from a scientific background he has always had the benefit of operating free from the shackles of tradition ...

Based in the Southern Rhone for the last 25 years, Xavier’s wines has amassed a huge appreciation by critics and consumers alike, often scoring in the high nineties, yet remain extraordinary value. We caught up with him this week to find out that the secrets to his success are the result of a vigneron pushing practically every boundary in viticulture and winemaking.

Xavier Vignon - A Rhone Radical

The benefit of hindsight tells us this story did not end happily ever after, but for the 750
million people tuning in to the wedding of Lady Diana Spencer and the Prince of Wales, the day was fit for a fairy-tale complete with gold-encrusted carriage, silk slippers and trumpet fanfares aplenty.  The champagne of choice? Magnums of Dom Pérignon 1961–  Diana’s
birth ...

In conversations amongst collectors and critics around the world, 1961 is certainly a vintage that piques a lot of interest. It was a vintage that arguably produced some of the finest bottles of the century. In the latest instalment in our Vintage Series, FINE+RARE explores the the vintage of 1961.

A Year in Wine: 1961

Hailed as one of the world's finest Riesling producers with prices to match, the Müller family has never been afraid of a challenge from their first days as a vineyard owner under French occupation, through two World Wars and a wine system that awarded quantity over quality. Speaking to FINE+RARE at the height of the Coronavirus crisis, Egon Müller IV ...

Speaking to FINE+RARE at the height of the Coronavirus crisis, Egon Müller IV discusses family, the state of German wine, and, of course, Riesling.

Egon Muller Interview - The Travails of Riesling Royalty

With more of us looking for stay-at-home entertainment than ever before, we thought we’d take the opportunity to spread the gift of wine knowledge - with a little help from our friends over at The Wine Advocate.  The Wine Advocate team has offered FINE+RARE clients a free subscription to the robertparker.com website for the next three months. Simply click ...

With more of us looking for stay-at-home entertainment than ever before, we thought we’d take the opportunity to spread the gift of wine knowledge - with a little help from our friends over at The Wine Advocate. 

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In the latest instalment in our Vintage Series, FINE+RARE explores the the vintage of 1934. With the repeal of the Prohibition act, the US wine market began its slow recovery, whilst in Europe after a string of dismal vintages, 1934 produced some of the finest wines in the pre-Second World War era.

 Politicians don’t always follow through on their promises ...

In the latest instalment in our Vintage Series, FINE+RARE explores the the vintage of 1934. With the repeal of the Prohibition act, the US wine market began its slow recovery, whilst in Europe after a string of dismal vintages, 1934 produced some of the finest wines in the pre-Second World War era.

A Year in Wine: 1934

Gaja’s wines from Barbaresco are undoubtedly some of the finest wines in the world, but their single vineyard wines from their Brunello di Montalcino estate – Pieve Santa Restituta - whilst a lot less well known, deserve equal attention, particularly with the release of their 2015s due out next week. It was a big decision for this Piedmont producer to ...

Now after 20 years of vintages at the property and blessed with the fantastic vintage conditions of 2015 – Gaja have produced arguably some of the finest Brunellos of the vintage.

Gaja’s Brunello di Montalcino - Pieve Santa Restituta

We learn a lot from winemakers around the world but often it extends well beyond their
vocation. No more so than with Sébastien Le Golvet, whose philosophy as a vigneron extends far beyond the vineyard. Under the mentorship of his father-in-law Claude Giraud, Sébastien believes a total immersion in one’s surroundings is essential to better understand it. Working with something that is ...

Domaine Henri Giraud, one of Champagne’s most celebrated producers, takes this immersion philosophy to the extreme, from tasting their own soils to identifying varying terroirs of oak within the Argonne forest that produce the barrels for their barrel-fermented champagnes. Sébastien guides us through the extraordinary lengths they go to, his determination to reconnect with nature, and learning to trust in one’s own senses. 

Terroir Immersion Therapy with Sébastien Le Golvet

In the latest instalment in our Vintage Series, FINE+RARE explores the last year of the 20th century and discovers it was a season to remember. We speak directly with Francois Millet from Domaine Georges Comte de Vogue on what made 1999 so special. Philippe Guigal hadn’t yet met his future wife – it would be another nine years before he ...

In the latest instalment in our Vintage Series, FINE+RARE explores the last year of the 20th century and discovers it was a season to remember. We speak directly with Francois Millet from Domaine Georges Comte de Vogue on what made 1999 so special.

A Year in Wine: 1999

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