Interview with wine counterfeit expert Maureen Downey about the foreseeable future of applying Blockchain Technology to the wine industry. Maureen Downey is a wine fraud specialist who played an important role in the Rudy Kurniawan investigation, the greatest wine scam in US that shook the wine…

French airline Air France is working hard to provide its passengers with “a little piece of France’s terroir” in the air. What is the best way to transport customers to France before they’ve even arrived, or to leave them with a succulent aftertaste of Paris…

Everything you’ve been wondering about Prosecco sparkling wine. We’ve gone through all the most common questions you have about Prosecco bubbles, to get you to understand the essence of this ultra-famous but sometimes misjudged Italian wine. For information about the National Prosecco week, read on…

Blanc de Noirs Champagnes are white wines made exclusively with the red grape varieties grown in the Champagne region. Most often, they are blended from Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier, although some examples are varietal wines like some single vineyard sparkling Pinot Noirs. To find…

Score : 97+/100 Score 97/100   This Prestige Cuvée Champagne was awarded GOLD at Social Vignerons Prestige Cuvée Champagne AWARDS. Tasting Notes This vintage prestige cuvée Champagne comes in a very bright and shiny lemon-yellow color for a 20-year-old baby. Just a few golden hues simply make it look…

English wine, sparkling that is in particular, is very trendy and has benefitted from growing buzz over the past few years. It is often said to approach the quality of France’s best Champagne wines! In this Era of global warming, England benefits from its famously-cool…

In the first of a Q&A series with social media actors of our Top 20 wine influencers, I have asked Randall Grahm to tell us about his success on Twitter and other platforms. Randall Grahm is an enormous personality in the world of wine and…

As opposed to wine bottles themselves, the anatomy of a wine bottle holds no secret and is fairly straight forward. Still, there is some specific vocabulary any wine lover, wine student, wannabe wine professional or sommelier has to know. To keep things simple and easy…

Did you know that Argentina is the only country that have original Malbec vines of true French heritage? A Long Tradition  & History In 1853, Michel A. Pouget – a French agronomist, who was hired to create and run the Quinta Normal of Mendoza, arrived…

Tasting life in a bottle labelled as 2007 Domaine de Fouassier Sancerre Mélodie. When my second daughter Mélodie was born in 2011, my old Sancerre vigneron friend Thibault Roger sent me over to New Zealand a bottle of this local cuvee named like my baby,…