Grape Collective talks with fourth-generation winemaker Jean Mestreguilhem about the unique character of Saint-Émilion wines.
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- June 16, 2023
Has this ever happened to you? It’s summer. You need a pleasant, thoughtful, inexpensive white. You just realized you don’t have anything in the refrigerator and your usual wine store seems too distant in the heat. You go to the so-so store in the nearby strip mall, or the supermarket, and get…what, exactly?
- December 26, 2020Cath and Kingsley Edwards are a beaming, delightful Aussie couple you want to sit down for a glass of wine with. Their vines at Ashbrook Estate have been in the family for generations.
- November 23, 2018Categories: FeaturesWine should be fun. Yes, we drink many very serious wines and we discuss them seriously, but, to us, that’s fun. It’s intellectual, it’s sensuous, it’s culturally interesting, it’s geographically stimulating and it’s often deeply pleasurable. But it’s also just fun for us.
- March 08, 2018"The terroir here is great with slopes and with very good exposition. You can compare it in fact with some parts of Saint-Émilion but we have more Cabernet Sauvignon." Olivier Allo of Château La Rame
- October 31, 2017Berenice Lurton tells us why everyone should have a bottle of Sauternes in their fridge.
- September 04, 2017Grape Collective visits with Château Magdeleine-Bouhou's Yann Couturier and explores the value wines of Blaye-Côtes de Bordeaux.
- "The biggest mistake most of the hipster somms make is their assumption that fruity wine aromas are fake and obscure the non-fruity authentic taste of wine. For them it only becomes apparent when the fruity “mask” is removed. " Stuart Pigott
- January 11, 2017Categories: FeaturesStuart Pigott on how the big expensive Bordeaux producers are engaging in the "The Switcheroo" on unknowing consumers and the meaning of "terroir" in BDX.
- Batman, ABBA, Tate Britain, blond Norwegian hostesses with perfect teeth, American bankers, princes, fraudsters: Venture down the rabbit hole of Bordeaux with Stuart Pigott.