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Extract: The wines of Piemonte, by David Way
19 September 2023 by Infinite Ideas in Classic Wine Library, Extracts, Wine and spirits
In this extract from his new book, published on 4 September, David Way looks at how winemaking and wine regulations have changed in Barolo and Barbaresco in the last 40 years, and explains the effects this has had on wine quality, the popularity of these wines and the prices paid for them. (Read more)
Cultivating a passion for fortified wine
3 August 2022 by Infinite Ideas in Classic Wine Library, Wine and spirits
Wines go in and out of fashion. Madeira’s heyday was in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but recent decades have seen a revival of interest in this unique wine. Tourism in the 1970s brought a new audience, and then, in 1986, Portugal joined what was to become the EU, aiding trade as well as leading to investment in the vineyards and a raising of quality standards. (Read more)
Extract: Madeira (2nd edition) by Richard Mayson
22 July 2022 by Infinite Ideas in Classic Wine Library, Extracts, Wine and spirits
Nearly every Madeira wine worshipper has come to it after having had a Damascene moment. I recall my own quite vividly. I had only been in the wine trade for two years when I attended a pre-sale tasting in October 1986 at Christie’s in London for an auction held to commemorate the six-hundredth anniversary of the Treaty of Windsor. (Read more)