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Wine story

Beaune and The Hospices
The Hospices de Beaune Wine Auction has met with growing success over the years, to the credit of Burgundy’s wines.

Ah, that nice little white wine from Paris!
There’s a grand old love affair between Paris and vines. For sure, it’s hard to imagine Paris, looking at the ring road at seven in the evening, once gained something of a reputation for its wines. And yet…

Sacrés Primeurs!
It is meant to be a win-win proposition. The wine producers get to sell their wine long before it is bottled and wine lovers get a chance to buy their favourite wines cheaper than on release. Or at least that is how it is meant to work...

Class Glass
Glassware has been known since Ancient Times, almost as long as wine has been cultivated. Later on, when the bottle was invented, a wine revolution began.

The whole of Italy in a bottle
The Guicciardini Strozzi family’s Vernaccia di San Gimignano is not only a fine wine, but also the fruit of a history going back to Dante, Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci; and coming back via Cinecitta, the island of Pantelleria where you’ll find Carole Bouquet and Rudolf Nureyev’s estate.

Johnnie Walker, the dandy who walks on bottles
It is exactly one century since Johnnie Walker strode onto the labels and advertisements of his whisky, fully decked out in the emblems of dandyism: redingote, gloves, a high silk hat and a pommel cane.

Robert Mondavi
The death of Robert Mondavi in California earlier this year marked the end of an era. This one man summed up all the drama entailed in the birth of a new wine region.