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Extract: The wines of South Africa by Jim Clarke
21 January 2022 by Rebecca in Classic Wine Library, Extracts, Wine and spirits
Wine styles in the Western Cape
Sparkling wines
South Africa is the first New World country to develop a designation for its traditional meth-od sparkling wines that does not ride the coattails of Champagne. Today, Methode Cap Classique, or, more informally, MCC, is the fastest growing wine category in the country, doubling every five years. (Read more)
Extract: The wines of Southwest U.S.A. by Jessica Dupuy
20 January 2022 by Rebecca in Classic Wine Library, Extracts, Wine and spirits
The advent of winemaking in the Southwest
While most American history is first associated with British colonization along the east coast of the country at the beginning of the seventeenth century, New Mexico was first colonized by the Spanish. Second to Florida, New Mexico is one of the oldest state names in the country. (Read more)
Extract: Luxury Wine Marketing by Peter Yeung and Liz Thach MW
19 January 2022 by Rebecca in Extracts, Lifestyle, Wine and spirits
Luxury wine: luxuriously defined
The French term elevage, meaning to be grown or reared, with regard to winemaking is a good starting point for understanding what luxury wine is. The wine world at the highly commercial end is made up of manufactured commodities, wines made by formula and at industrial scale, often to great effect, but manufactured more than grown. (Read more)