The Lafons in the Mâconnais
The name Lafon comes with its own arithmetic. A bottle of Domaine des Comtes Lafon Meursault Perrières is allocated by the case, priced for collectors and rarely opened young. The...
Drinking the Stars
There is now an official ‘Day’ for just about anything conceivable. Champagne, the drink applied liberally to everything else worth celebrating, surely deserves a day of its own.
Californian wine blogger Chris Oggenfuss...
Hippolyte’s Hectare -- Vieux Télégraphe
Darren Gall · 19 October 2026
High Ground
La Crau does not look like promising land. The plateau stands at about 130 metres on the south-eastern edge of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, where the communes...
Domaine Robert Groffier Père & Fils
Darren Gall · Vindochine
There is a small Burgundian irony in Morey-Saint-Denis. The Groffier cellars sit in the middle of the village, next door to Clos de Tart, yet the...
The Code and the Côte
How Napoleon’s Civil Code shaped Burgundy's vineyards, and how one family in Vosne-Romanée has lived with it for almost two centuries.
Alphonse Gros was born in 1804 in Chaux, a...
Domaine Alvina Pernot
The Pernot family have tended vines in Puligny for the best part of two centuries. Alvina Pernot was born and raised in Puligny-Montrachet, surrounded from childhood by some of Burgundy’s most celebrated...
A Quacking Good Merlot
Decoy Limited, Alexander Valley, Merlot, 2022
The Duckhorns have been turning out exceptional Merlot almost from the very beginning in 1978, releasing their first vintage just two years later. Their Duckhorn ‘Three...
The Armagh: Eight Acres of Ambition
The First Qualified Man
Jim Barry came to the Clare Valley in 1947 carrying a piece of paper that nobody else in the district possessed. He had begun studying oenology...
