The only book on Champagne you will ever need is Champagne [Boxed Book & Map Set]: The Essential Guide to the Wines, Producers, and Terroirs of the Iconic Region. It’s my go-to source for Champagne info. From Amazon.com: From Peter Liem, the lauded expert behind the top-rated online resource ChampagneGuide.net, comes this groundbreaking guide to the […]
Looking for a Great New Year’s Champagne?
If you know even a little about Champagne, you most likely would name Chardonnay and Pinot Noir as the leading blending grapes of Champagne. But there is another grape–a workhorse, so to speak–that is often overlooked. Pinot Meunier is a genetic mutant of Pinot Noir and accounts for about one-third of the plantings in the […]
Celebrate the New Year with the Right Champagne
The Staff at Decanter.com has written up a list of the best Champagnes for celebrating 2018’s arrival: If you haven’t picked your New Year’s Eve 2017 Champagnes yet, there’s still time. Below, we’ve rounded up our top Champagne recommendations to make your choice easier for the festive season. Plus, see our related links for more ideas. Champagne, of course, comes in […]
$3 Million per Acre in France’s St. Emilion Wine Country?
There has been a fury of deal making in France’s St. Emilion wine country in the last few years. But in 2017 prices are skyrocketing, with reports of sales at 6 million euro per hectare (slightly less than $3 million per acre). The astonishing property market is covered by Jane Anson at Decanter: You could […]
In Burgundy, It’s ‘Raze the House, Plant more Vines’
Wealthy French investors are grabbing up land in Burgundy at a rapid pace. Locals are worried about the influx of outsider investors, but so far the region doesn’t appear to be undergoing the same urbanization effects Bordeaux has seen. Two of France’s wealthiest citizens, François Pinault and Bernard Arnault have purchased adjacent vineyards in Burgundy, sparking the […]
France’s LVMH (think Christian Dior/Krug) Rolls into California Wine Country
Chris Mercer of Decanter writes that LVMH has agreed to buy Colgin Cellars, a well known Napa winery. He writes: LVMH said last night (21 November) that it had agreed to buy 60% of Colgin Cellars, which has around 10.5 hectares of vines. It marks a significant move in Napa Valley for LVMH and its owner, Bernard Arnault, who regularly […]
Best White Wine in France and the World: Puligny-Montrachet, Burgundy
Burgundy Facing the Biggest Overall Crop Since 2009
Overall wine production in Europe is way down in 2017 following small harvests in some of the continent’s biggest producing regions. As you can see on my chart, production in 2017 is expected to be much lower than any year this century. The question is, how will the market for wine react to low global […]
Best Wines of Paris
I have the world class wine staff at the Shangri-La Hotel in Paris (10 Avenue d’Iéna) to thank for my introduction to this outstanding David Duband Chambolle Musigny. The Shangri-La is one of my favorite Paris Palace Hotels and one I have stayed at and eaten at many times. I just love the location, proximate […]
Blue Chip Burgundy Prices up 31%
Nick Martin, founder of Knight Frank told Decanter.com that ‘Blue chip Burgundy remains very strong, up 31% last year and 12% year to date. Scarcity paired with global demand for sought-after producers has made top Burgundy a consistently good bet, with 10 year gains of 411%.’ French Côte-d’Or Burgundy and .22 CCI ammunition are among my favorite non-securities investments. Laura […]
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