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Culture
When the Vintage is Over
When the Vintage is Over
Today -under enormous adversity it must be said- we picked the last grapes of the 2024 vintage, in Shan State Myanmar.
A miserly crop, but the fruit is mostly good, some...
Culture
Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards
Wynn Set to Host World's Biggest Chinese Wine Competition of International Standard at the "Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards"
Macau, 2024 — Wynn is pleased to welcome the world's foremost authorities and judges in Old and New...
Culture
Penfolds Day Papua New Guinea
Penfolds Day PNG
2024
The Stanley Hotel
Port Moresby
Penfolds is an iconic Australian winemaker founded in 1844 by Christopher Rawson Penfold, an English physician who emigrated to South Australia with his wife Mary Penfold. It is one...
Wine
Que Syrah, Shiraz
Que Syrah, Shiraz
From the roasted slopes of the Northern Rhone to the ancient vines of the Barossa Valley Syrah, (as it is known in France) or Shiraz, (as it is called in...
Culture
Red Mountain
“This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about.”
George Orwell, Burmese Days
As we prepare to release the 2022 Reserve Pinot Noir, I take a moment to reflect on the...
Food
Phnom Mondot
Phnom Mondot
A Hotel in the Sky
The Rosewood Hotel, occupying the highest floors of Phnom Penh’s tallest building, looks out over the city’s rapidly expanding skyline. On a clear night, window boxes of...
Culture
A Glass of Noir
A Glass of Noir
Sweetness and silk on the tongue,
Cherry kisses,
Falling to the floor of the forest,
Sweet, sweaty scents of sexual arousal.
Poetry, fanning out along neural pathways,
Little eddies of complexity swirling around synapses,
Coaxing, seducing, whispering...
Culture
Noir Around the World – a new book about a grape variety that has been called “The opium of the upper classes”.
New Release
‘Pinot Noir Around the World’ by Anne Krebiehl MW
The International Wine & Food Society (IWFS) is pleased to announce the publication of their latest monograph focusing on one of, if not, the world’s...