My Passion for Wine - Phillip Schofield
TV’s ‘silver fox’ couldn’t be more serious about wine, as Lucy Shaw discovers on a tour of not one, but two cellars at his country home
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Video: Joel Peterson
Founder and chief winemaker of Ravenswood Joel Peterson talks to Decanter's Lucy Shaw about what winemakers need to do to get Zinfandel recognised as a world class wine, how zinfandel ages, being bought by Constellation, and why there are so many 'wimpy wines' in the world.
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Collectors' News: September 2010 issue
London merchant Bordeaux Index has launched the first fine wine price index to monitor the movement of fine wine prices on a daily rather than monthly basis. Eponymously titled, ‘The Bordeaux Index’, it will track the live changes in the prices of 80–100 of the most liquidly traded wines on its LiveTrade market making screen, launched in May last year.
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Domaine de Chevalier's Olivier Bernard plots new project
Olivier Bernard, head of renowned Graves property Domaine de Chevalier, has bought a number of plots in Pessac-Léognan to be used in a new wine project.
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Ferran Adria of El Bulli: I'm tired of being a commercial chef
Renowned El Bulli chef Ferran Adrià is tired of working as a commercial chef, he has admitted.
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Gonzalez Byass rare and old Sherry tasting, straight from the barrel
It's mid afternoon and I'm being led into a secret part of the Gonzalez Byass cellars in Jerez by winemaker Antonio Flores.
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Decanter's Selfridges tasting kicks off in style
Decanter took over Selfridges last night with the launch of its yearly tenure at the Wonder Bar.
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Australia banned from using Champagne, Sherry and Port on labels
Australian winemakers have been banned from using the words Champagne, Port and Sherry on their labels under a major EU deal.
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Video: Jilly Goolden on cork
TV wine personality Jilly Goolden was at Speaker’s Corner in London’s Hyde Park this morning alongside a pair of giant, 2m high cork sculptures to launch an initiative by the cork industry urging consumers to sign a pledge to support natural cork.
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Julio Iglesias: My passion for wine
Julio Iglesias doesn’t do things by halves. During his 42-year music career, the Madrid-born singer has sold more than 300 million albums in 14 different languages, making him among the top 10 best-selling musicians in history. Earlier this year, the 66-year-old, who has reportedly slept with over 3,000 women, released album number 77, and he’s currently midway through a world tour – ‘It’s a great excuse to drink wines from different countries every night,’ he says, laughing.
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BLOG: The Semillons rise again
Eight middle-aged men in double-stringed red thongs are gyrating in front of me. Their powder white skin paired with the red G-strings makes them look like Santa’s little helpers.
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Butlins launches fine wine list
UK budget holiday company Butlins has launched its first fine wine list.
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UK Government spends £18,000 on wine since election
The UK Government has spent nearly £18,000 on wine since the General Election, leading to calls for the entire collection to be sold off.
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Ultra-cheap wine mooted for UK store
UK supermarket chain 99p Stores’ plans to sell wine for 99p a bottle, to the dismay of some alcohol awareness professionals.
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BLOG: review of Hotel Viura, Rioja’s first boutique hotel
Rioja had been a byword for avant-garde architecture before Frank Gehry built his hotel at Marqués de Riscal in 2006.
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Madeira
It’s a hair-raising trip to get there, but the folk-singing, grape-stomping fun of the island’s fringe wine festival is well worth it, says LUCY SHAW
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Lancashire pub launches UK’s first all-English wine list
A Lancashire pub has launched the first all-English wine list in the UK.
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Galvin La Chapelle scoops top Tatler award
Galvin La Chapelle in London's Shoreditch scooped the Restaurant of the Year award last night at the Tatler Laurent-Perrier Restaurant Awards 2010.
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Mondavi: Many California wineries will be sold under duress
Former Mondavi CEO Michael Mondavi has admitted that a large number of non-profitable California wineries will change hands ‘under duress’ this year.
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Texture to open second restaurant
The duo behind Texture, the Michelin-starred restaurant in London’s Portman Square, are to open a sister restaurant in early June.
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Bruce Tyrrell: Great Australian vineyards will outlast grubbing-up phase
Hunter Valley winemaker Bruce Tyrrell has spoken out about the grape oversupply crisis in Australia.
