Twenty-five limited edition cases of Mouton Rothschild have made £750,000 in a London sale with all proceeds going to repairs of Notre-Dame.
Domaines Barons de Rothschild, owner of Château Lafite Rothschild and Duhart-Milon, is finally ready to launch its Chinese brand onto the market this autumn its CEO has revealed.
Entries are open for The Drinks Business Asian Awards 2019, the only business and trade orientated awards in Asia’s wine industry created to recognise excellence across the region.
Laurent Ponsot’s new wine launch, Catena Zapata’s masterclass on high-altitude Malbec, the Cabernet Sauvignon Masters and Querciabella’s biodynamic practices have all been part of the last few weeks in Hong Kong.
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Far removed from the medieval town and 19th century chateaux in Saint-Émilion, Château La Grâce Dieu Des Prieurs, owned by Russian entrepreneur Andrey Filatov, is an outlier in a region that’s steeped in tradition.
Europe’s first underwater restaurant based on the coastline of southern Norway will officially open to the public next month, with 7,000 people already booked in to eat at the 40-cover restaurant.
Deadline : 1st May 2019
Few countries are gearing themselves more effectively for wine tourism than Chile, although bodegas like to do so on a formal basis, writes Geoffrey Dean.
by Geoffrey Dean
by db_staff
Speciality Drinks
Anthony Byrne Fine Wines
Last week db’s editor, Lucy Shaw, was lucky enough to head to the Golden State for a week-long tour of California wine country. The first few days took her to gnarly old vine Zinfandel’s heartland of Lodi and the Napa Valley, where the legacy of the Judgement of Paris lives on.
Napa Valley wine brand Louis M. Martini has revamped its historic winery, installing spectacular new tasting rooms, a study specifically for wine education, spaces dedicated to food and wine pairings, and a new wine shop.
The last leg of our whirlwind tour of New Zealand took us to Hawke’s Bay, where we sipped silky Syrahs, feasted on luscious langoustine and got to cruise around Napier’s Art Deco streets in a gleaming vintage Buick.