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A row of unlabelled wine bottles on a stone shelf above a pale chalky soil sample in low afternoon light — Too many Colins share one name
Burgundy

Joseph Colin and the Chassagne surname problem

You are looking at a wine list in Central and there are three white Burgundies...
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A handful of grapes filling a small wicker basket beside a modest hand press, a single vine row fading into fog — Small houses have real limits
Champagne

Jeeper and what a small Champagne house can and cannot do

Two producers make Champagne from the same slope in the same year. One of them...
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A chunk of heather and sandstone beside one whisky glass on a weathered wooden ledge, grey sea light behind — Island whisky is not all peat
Producer Guide

Highland Park and why island whisky is not all peat

Ask ten people what island whisky tastes like and nine will describe the same thing:...
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Rows of identical glass demijohns holding amber reserve wine along a dim cellar shelf, uniform tone across every jar — Reserve wine keeps house taste
Champagne

Henriot and how a house tastes the same every year

Here is a problem worth sitting with for a moment. The weather in northern France...
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Stacked oak barrel staves leaning against a champagne riddling rack inside a chalk cellar, a single candle burning nearby — Oak reshapes Champagne flavour
Champagne

Henri Giraud and what oak does to Champagne

Take one batch of juice, split it in half, and ferment one half in a...
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An unopened bottle silhouetted in candlelight beside a magnifying glass and a loose cork on dark cellar wood — Read a bottle before opening it
Bordeaux

Gruaud Larose and how to read a bottle before opening it

A bottle arrives with a label that has clearly had a hard life. Stained brown...
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A clump of blue clay soil against a rusted iron gate post, Pomerol vine rows dissolving into morning mist — Gazin lost land it once owned
Bordeaux

Chateau Gazin, Pomerol, and the land it no longer owns

Open a classified Bordeaux from 1975 and one from 2005 on the same table and...
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A plain wicker grape basket on a stone farmhouse step, modest vine rows climbing a gentle hillside behind — Cheaper Burgundy has a reason
Burgundy

Faiveley and why the southern Burgundy villages cost less

Draw a line down the Burgundy map and something strange happens to prices about forty...
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A handful of Pauillac gravel stones beside worn pruning shears on a weathered oak barrel stave in low morning light — Ownership does not buy character
Bordeaux

Duhart-Milon and what ownership cannot transfer

A restaurant group that runs a very good kitchen in Central opens a second place...
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A single champagne flute catching candlelight on a stone ledge above a chalk cellar stair, the room beyond empty — This bottle sells a signal
Champagne

What Dom Perignon is actually doing on the table

A bottle lands on the table at a banquet and does its work before anyone...
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A shallow dish of dark alluvial soil beside crushed wild herbs and river reeds, faint mist rolling across flat fields — Southern Medoc smells different
Bordeaux

Chateau Dauzac and why southern Medoc smells different

Ask why a Margaux smells the way it does and you will usually be told...
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A ceramic sake flask and small cup beside two piles of rice, one polished bright white and one still husked and brown — Polishing number is not a rank
Producer Guide

Dassai 23 is not a higher grade than Dassai 45

Someone hands you two bottles of sake. One says 45 on the label, the other...
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