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Large water worn gravel stones piled beside a cut vine root with dark clay visible beneath — Deep gravel shapes the fruit
Bordeaux

Lynch-Bages and what deep Pauillac gravel tastes like

If you dig a pit in a Medoc vineyard, the interesting part is not the...
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A row of clear glass Champagne bottles beside opaque dark ones on a chalk cellar shelf, a narrow shaft of light crossing — Reserve wine offsets light strike
Champagne

Louis Roederer, light strike and the reserve wine behind it

Leave a bottle of pale wine on a bright windowsill for an afternoon and it...
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Whole grape clusters with stems intact filling an open wooden fermentation vat, pale stalks among the dark berries — Whole bunches alter red Burgundy
Burgundy

Louis Latour and what whole bunches do to red Burgundy

Pour a red Burgundy into a glass and hold it over a white tablecloth. You...
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A negociant cellar holding mixed oak barrels from different vineyards stacked together, chalk marks faint on each end — Ownership is not the whole story
Burgundy

Louis Jadot and whether owning the vineyard matters

There is a question people learn to ask about wine early, and then ask for...
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A glass filled two thirds with red wine beside a kitchen clock reading an evening hour on a plain weekday table — Buy this for Saturday not 2040
Bordeaux

L'Evangile, Pomerol, and buying for Saturday not 2040

The single most reliable statistic in the wine trade is also the least discussed: the...
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Dark red grape skins steeping in pale juice inside a glass vat, rose tint spreading slowly under cool cellar light — Rose Champagne the harder way
Champagne

Laurent-Perrier and the harder way to make rose Champagne

There are two ways to make a pink Champagne, and they are not two versions...
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Two decanters of differing wine colour on a stone sill, one noticeably paler, Margaux vine rows blurred beyond — A second wine is not leftover
Bordeaux

Lascombes and what a second wine is really made of

A second wine usually gets explained as whatever the estate could not put in the...
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New steel fermentation tanks standing beside an old stone chateau wall, scaffolding shadow falling across vine rows — Lagrange is an estate rebuilt
Bordeaux

Chateau Lagrange and the estate that was rebuilt

Every serious Bordeaux estate throws wine away. Not literally — it sells it, under a...
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Two glasses of red wine with differing garnet hues side by side on pale stone, hazy hills silhouetted behind — Nine kilometres, two styles
Italy

La Spinetta, Barolo and Barbaresco nine kilometres apart

Two wines from villages nine kilometres apart, made from the same grape, aged in similar...
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Stacked American oak barrels lining a dim bodega corridor, chalk vintage marks faint on the barrel ends — Reserva years are not a rank
Producer Guide

La Rioja Alta and what those Reserva years really mean

Three bottles sit on a shelf. One says Crianza, one says Reserva, one says Gran...
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A mound of pale round gravel stones resting on dark earth, river mist beyond a bare wooden vine trellis — Gravel marks the southern Medoc
Bordeaux

La Lagune and the gravel at the southern end of the Medoc

For most of its history the strip of land now producing the most expensive Cabernet...
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Crushed gravel and clay soil beside a single wilting rose stem, Margaux vine rows blurring into distant mist — Soil explains perfumed Margaux
Bordeaux

Chateau Kirwan and the soil behind perfumed Margaux

Wine writing describes Margaux as perfumed and Pauillac as powerful. The words are so worn...
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