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Posted on by Meg Houston Maker

Clearly Bardolino

Posted on by Meg Houston Maker
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A look at 2019 Chianti Classico

Posted on by John Salvi MW
Chianti wine region
John Salvi MW attends Chianti Classico Collection 2020 and crafts his conclusions on the 2019 vintage by digging deep into the factors that have delivered a generous yield of wonderful wines.  A record number of producers turned out at the 2020 edition of Chianti Classico Collection, and more than ever before showed their new vintage – the 2019. There were 56 producers pouring 2019s at the Stazio...
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Pack up your bottles in a bag in box?

Posted on by Jancis Robinson MW
Jancis Robinson Circle of Wine Writers member on wine bottles and climate change
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Living it up at Livres en vignes

Posted on by Jon Wyand
Jon Wyand shows what to expect on bringing out a wine book with a French publisher as he goes under a hedonistic house arrest at Château du Clos de Vougeot. One benefit of struggling through the production of a wine book with a French publisher is that you’ll probably be invited to Livres en Vignes, when it has been published. It’s a kind of house arrest at Château du Clos de Vougeot, where you s...
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Shedding light on Slovakian wine

Posted on by Jochen Erler
Jochen Erler, who first reported on Slovakian wine in the mid-90s, reflects on the country’s wines after judging at the 2019 edition of Slovakia’s National Wine Competition, held in Pezinok. Pezinok is a pleasant town in the foothills of the Little Carpathian mountain range, reflecting its Austro-Hungarian past in its architecture, and showing a lifestyle á la Vienna with cafés busy all day arou...
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A Weekend in Ontario Wine Country

Posted on by Margaret Swaine
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Nibbling on Newfoundland

Posted on by Margaret Swaine
Fogo Island Inn
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Southern Ontario regional report and 2019 vintage profile

Posted on by Chuck Byers
ice wine
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Taking stock of half a century of Canadian vintages

Posted on by Michael Vaughan
Article on Canadian wine
Michael Vaughan has been writing about Canadian wines for fifty years and assessing the vintages for most of those years, available today on his online publication www.vintageassessments.com. In this interview Amanda Barnes asks him how much Canadian wine has changed over that time, and where he sees the most potential in Canadian wine for the future. You've been writing about Canadian wine since...
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