Romanée-Conti… a Look Back at the Legend of a Grand Cru

All Wines Lead to Rome Although the prestigious Roman civilization was not where wine originated and it did not even play a major part in the initial spread of wine throughout Gaul, then the supposed capital of clan drunkenness, Rome...

To speak of a bottle, when the contents, per litre, reach around 200,000 euros would simply be terribly bad form. At such a price, it could only be a rare nectar, produced in a heavenly vineyard, which should be...

One of life’s big questions, the answer to which surely deserves three long pages, but will be summed up in this brief sentence: “It is perfectly normal to pay the price for things when one has the means to...

13 JANUARY 2021 Twelve bottles of Bordeaux wine will be opened in February, after spending a whole year aboard the International Space Station. Researchers will try, for the sake of agricultural science, to understand how space alters sedimentation and “bubbles”....

While Sweden is cancelling a car rally “due to lack of snow,” it has been announced, with baleful looks, that France will probably lose a third of its wine-producing land. If Europe was united as it should be, we...