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Buyer’s Guide to Summer Sippers
Last of the chilled summer tips for spills, thrills and sips By Michael Godel with notes from David, John, Sara and Megha When heat needs to be beat and quenching one’s thirst becomes a daily act of necessity, embracing the righteousness of whites and rosés requires little creativity. In these times of thermometric accumulation, laying […] More
South Africa Update: Old Vines Leading the Way Out of Crisis and Into the Premium Markets
By John Szabo, MS This feature was commissioned by Wines of South Africa. The growing movement to find, preserve and celebrate old vines in South Africa is among the key factors in restoring and shoring up the country’s embattled wine industry. The wines made from these old vineyards, in some cases planted well over a […] More
Announcing the 2022 Winery of the Year
CedarCreek Estate Winery By Co-Head Judge Anthony Gismondi In 2022, CedarCreek Estate Winery, an East Kelowna winery located in the northern Okanagan Valley, topped all 251 producers at the WineAlign National Wine Awards of Canada. Making it to the top of the list may sound easy, but it is a journey. You don’t become Canada’s […] More
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Sauternes is a French dessert wine from the Sauternais, part of the Graves region of Bordeaux. Sauternes is made from Sémillon, Sauvignon Blanc, and Muscadelle grapes that have been affected by Botrytis cinerea, also known as noble rot. This causes the grapes to become partially raisined, resulting in concentrated and distinctively flavored wines. Sauternes is one of the few wine regions where infection with noble rot is a frequent occurrence, due to its climate. Even so, wine production varies greatly from vintage to vintage, depending on the amount of botrytis-affected grapes and their general condition and ripeness.
