Lisboa is a winemaking region located along Portugal’s Atlantic coastline. By LLM Reporters | October 6, 2024 Words by Elaine Wilson Things have changed in the world of Portuguese wine. The Lisboa wine region of Portugal is emerging as one of Europe’s most underrated wine regions. This region has nine distinctive appellations set against the […]
By Krisztina Fenyo, Anita Komuves and Gergely Szakacs August 8, 20242:09 AM GMT+3 – Updated August 8, 2024 BUDAPEST, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Hungary’s hottest July on record has forced some of the country’s winemakers to start harvesting grapes in early August, up to a month earlier than usual. Climate change is having a severe impact on Hungary’s acclaimed
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By Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen April 22, 2025 This young duo’s first vintage at the helm of this Santorini blew us away. As longtime fans of Greek wine and especially Assyrtiko from Santorini, we were recently blown away by Gai’a’s latest release, 2022 Ammonite, a single-plot Assyrtiko from 300-year-old ungrafted vines. Named for the ancient,
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Yossi Zakon, owner and founder of Joseph Zakon Winery, speaks about producing the first kosher low-alcohol wine and building a business. Interview by Crown Heights Young Entrepreneurs What prompted you to join the ranks of the winemaking industry? When I was young, I was taught that wine was a beverage of prestige—not only within society, but
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By Joao Pedro Pereira and Will Smale December 4, 2014 For a country famous around the world for the quality of its fortified wine, Portugal’s table wines are often overlooked on the global stage. So while Port and Madeira – both made by adding a clear brandy to the fermented grape juice to “fortify” them
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By Mark Hedley Published: Friday 23rd February 2024 Award-winning winemaker Melanie Chester has worked all across Australia as well as Portugal’s Douro Valley. Now at the helm of Yarra Valley vineyard Giant Steps, she tells us what wine means to her Melanie Chester was born for her job. Her family business was importing barrels, and she
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by Bethany Wright – April 21, 2023 For centuries, the region of Tokaj in Hungary was known for its intensely sweet dessert wines. Now female winemakers are making waves in what was formerly a man’s world, producing more elegant wines that appeal to a European palate. BODROGKERESZTUR — In centuries past, the story went that the best
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Arabella Mileham – February 22, 2023 To celebrate the talent of the winemakers who have scooped the highest accolade of the drinks business’ Global Masters tasting series, db has published a second edition of The Master Winemaker 100, our guide to the artists at the pinnacle of winemaking. We talk to Mustafa Çamlica, who owns Turkish winery Chamlija about what inspires him.
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Aaron Menenberg – July 2016 There’s so much more out there than Manischewitz. Our reviewer makes the case for buying a case of wine from the land of milk and honey. Full disclosure: I have a love-hate relationship with Israeli wine. When it’s good, it’s world-class, and several of Israel’s wine-growing regions are among the
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M.M. Cloutier | Special to the Daily News As Passover approaches, wine experts in Palm Beach are fielding inquiries about what’s becoming quite a topic of interest these days: kosher wines. Once associated for years with sweet wine, kosher wine now is produced by worldwide winemakers turning out chardonnay, cabernet sauvignon and more. “I’m usually asked
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