Jefford on Monday: Secrets of the Quilt
Burgundy is so simple to understand when compared to the seemingly infinite hills of Barolo and Barbaresco in Piedmont, but help is at hand, writes Andrew Jefford in his latest Jefford on Monday...
View ArticleJefford on Monday: Fishing the shallows
The mood in Burgundy in the final week of June was as luminous as the skies. Chardonnay on Cote de Nuits at Domaine de l'ArlotAssuming that the region comes through the next 70 days of meteorological...
View ArticleJefford on Monday: The time test
Maturation potential: is this the difference between ‘good wine’ and ‘fine wine’? Not simple endurance, in other words, but the way in which a wine’s infant beauty is able to modulate, to deepen and to...
View ArticleJefford on Monday: That’s the way to do it
In this week's column, Andrew Jefford examines the career of Justin Howard-Sneyd, wine buyer turned winemaker. Bushvine Grenache, RoussillonIt’s a classic start: anthropology student turns cellar-rat,...
View ArticleJefford on Monday: The two million bottle bet – and beyond
This may be the cleverest piece of vineyard sourcing I’ve ever come across, and it led to the creation of one of France’s most enduringly successful Vin de Pays (now IGP) wines. Chardonnay vines in...
View ArticleJefford on Monday: Dirt, Time and Terroir
The most significant revolution in the wine world over the last quarter century has nothing to do with micro-oxygenation, 100-point scores or screwcaps, writes Andrew Jefford in this column from the...
View ArticleJefford: Six De Wetshof wines to drink
Andrew Jefford picks his favourite South African Chardonnay wines from De Wetshof Estate and throws in a Pinot Noir and Bordeaux blend for good measure. Johann, Danie and Peter De WetWith Chardonnay...
View ArticleJefford on Monday: The 104-Point Second Wine
Wine scores will be with us as long as human beings drink wine, but is more context needed, and how much can one score be compared to another? Andrew Jefford reports on a still pressing issue in this...
View ArticleJefford on Monday: Mud Wrestling with the Bourguignons
Did you realise that, with every glass of Meursault and Montrachet, you are drinking wine faeces? No, nor did I, writes Andrew Jefford in this column re-published from Decanter.com's archive and...
View ArticleJefford on Monday: Up The Steep Hill
Chateau Latour and Napa Valley Araujo owner Francois Pinault has just been named the eighth richest man in France, but this archived column from Andrew Jefford considers the wide disparity in value...
View ArticleJefford on Monday: Tasting notes – the shame of the wine world?
In this week's column, Andrew Jefford considers the nature of descriptive tasting notes, and whether the wine world has lost sight of what a good note needs to convey. An American friend sent me a copy...
View ArticleJefford on Monday: New Zealand Pinot Noir finds fans in France
More and more French wine drinkers are enthusiastically embracing foreign wines, as shown during a recent tour of France by New Zealand Pinot Noir producers - who also offered a critique of Burgundy...
View ArticleJefford on Monday: L’Eglise Clinet tasting with Denis Durantou
Andrew Jefford heads to Bordeaux's right bank for a tasting of Chateau L'Eglise Clinet wines and a catch-up with owner and winemaker Denis Durantou. L'Eglise Clinet vines, June 2015I pushed the bell....
View ArticleJefford: A taste of Bichot
Run by the pragmatic, laid-back and pretension-averse Albéric Bichot from his house amid the vines of Pommard, the wines of this mid-sized négociant have been rapidly improving over the last decade....
View ArticleJefford on Monday: Burgundy wine harvest – is 2015 a great year?
In this week's column, Andrew Jefford reports on the 2015 wine harvest from Burgundy. Sorting the grapes at Bichot. I’ve been trying to do it for years. September 11th, I thought, would be a safe date...
View ArticleJefford: Raventos i Blanc tasting
Winemaker Pepe Raventos is a visionary, says Andrew Jefford. Here he shares four top sparkling wines to try from Raventos i Blanc.Monastrell grapes at Raventos i BlancRaventos i Blanc, L’Hereu 2012...
View ArticleJefford on Monday: Rebel harvest
In this week's column, Andrew Jefford looks back at the harvest at Raventos i Blanc, and meeting 'Cava rebel' Pepe Raventos. The Raventos i Blanc harvest.My last harvesting experience was with...
View ArticleJefford on Monday: Wine in China on our minds
Will China one day overtake the USA to become the world’s leading wine-drinking nation? Andrew Jefford explores wine culture in China in his latest weekly column.A wine shop in China.I think it’s...
View ArticleJefford on Monday: Underground terroir – Ardeche wines
Andrew Jefford takes a trip to Ardeche in the Rhône, to explore how its legendary caves have been turned into cellars and finds some excellent under-the-radar wines.Gours St Marcel, Ardeche, where some...
View ArticleJefford on Monday: Journey into forbidden territory
Andrew Jefford discusses the fallout from a blind tasting of Australian and Napa Valley Cabernet wines and tries to avoid becoming a 'vinous policeman'. Foggy panorama at CainEarlier this year, I took...
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