After a couple of challenging vintages, the Champenois sighed in collective relief with harvest 2025. Not only was it the earliest harvest ever recorded, quality has been reported as excellent, and healthy. Growers had barely made it back from
A snapshot of sparkling wine in Canada. Our 2025-26 Sparkling Report includes 115+ wines, not including Champagne (Our Champagne Annual is here). Certainly the lack of American bottles on shelves and lists have encouraged Canadians to drink elsewhere,
If you’ve followed my writing / posts / seminars for the last decade+ you’ll have felt my utmost sincerest admiration and appreciation for the vanguard of South African wine. As far as I look, and taste, I can’t find of another wine
It's prime time to think pink and drink pink season. Just as pink is the halfway hue between white and red on the colour spectrum, drinking pink offers up the best of both in the wine world. You get the freshness and acidity of white wines, plus the structure,
A lot has changed since Top Drop’s inaugural vintage, back in fall 2014, but the mandate set forward by founders Kurtis Kolt and Jeff Curry remains the same. “Our focus is terroir-influenced, handcrafted wines, and the people behind them.
There are numerous shades of green in the wine world nowadays, and consumers don’t have to sacrifice quality to taste them. Green generally isn’t usually something you look for in a wine. For wine geeks, ‘green’ can note underripe
Spain remains one of the best wine regions for blending the past with the future. Old vines and old soils provide the base for a renaissance of rediscovery, with neglected or unexplored regions like Gredos, the Canary Islands, and Ribeira Sacra standing
It's criticial to think about where your wine came from, including whom it came from. In light of International Women's Day this month, we are highlighting some of the recently tasted wines made by women winemakers that have inspired us at GOW (like Donatella
On the heels of the botrytis blighted 2023 vintage in Champagne, 2024 has been particularly challenging. First and ever foremost, the weather. Wet. When I visited the region in January / February, it had been raining every single day since October 2023.
This year’s Sparkling Report is a solid snapshot of bubbles around the world, with 80 wines outside of Champagne tasted from numerous distinct wine regions. Seems the bubble has popped on fizz, at least a bit. The sparkling wine category,
In Galicia’s northwest corner of Spain, just across the Minho River from Portugal, is Rías Baixas, home to the prized Albariño grape. The proximity to the cooling Atlantic Ocean and the prominence of granitic soils provide distinctly
The term ‘maritime climate’ is easy to understand. As the name suggests, these are wine producing regions directly affected by their proximity to large bodies of water. Other than sailors, fishers and pirates, no one appreciates or understands
France unquestionably is home to some of the greatest wine regions and benchmark wines on earth. Arguably the world's most important wine producing country, it has produced wine in greater quantity, and quality, than any other nation over centuries. Of
Spring has sprung, at least here on the south coast where the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, and the honeybees are on the hunt. Our palates too are seeking out spring flavours: lighter, fresher whites to enjoy with spring produce and warm sunshine.
In wine, moderation and mindfulness is key, as is education, and exploration. Instead of strident resolutions you won’t stick to this January, resolve to drink better. Pay attention one glass of honest, authentic, interesting wine with dinner rather
This year's Sparkling Report is a solid snapshot of bubbles worldwide, with 140 wines from outside Champagne tasted, from 18 countries and across a few dozen distinct wine regions. Globally, wine consumption is in decline due to the struggling economy
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