May 2025

Oenophiles are notoriously picky about serving wine at the proper temperature. Pouring a light- bodied red at the same temperature as a full-bodied red? Blasphemous! But for consumers who don’t have a top-of-the-line, high-tech wine fridge, how can you know when wine is at the right temperature for drinking? While it’s not an exact science, …

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Tucked away in a small Wisconsin town home to approximately 2,000 people, one will find the New Glarus Brewing Company, a local brewery with a big reputation. Established in 1993 by Deborah Carey, who purchased the original brewing site as a gift for her brewmaster husband, Daniel, New Glarus is one of the few large-scale …

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After Mateus arrived in the U.S., rosé flourished nationwide. The Portuguese pink-hued wine wove into the fabric of the American wine industry in the 1990s, and domestic winemakers quickly got to work making pink wines of their own in California. But they weren’t calling it rosé. Instead, they opted for names like White Zinfandel, White …

Wine 101: The History of Rosé Part IV: White Zinfandel and Cabernet Blush Read More »

Ludovic du Plessis, president of Champagne Telmont, at Cannes Film Festival. Champagne Telmont, based in Damery in the Marne Valley, is seeing in its fifth year as official partner of the Cannes Film Festival with its own premiere. It is the first time its Champagnes will be opened and served from its new 800g bottles, …

Champagne Telmont to premiere new lighter-weight bottle at Cannes Film Festival Read More »

Left to right: Matthew Deller, Larry Jacobs and Marc Dobson. Hahndorf Hill specialises in growing cool-climate Austrian grape varieties such as Grüner Veltliner, Blaufränkisch and Zweigelt. Larry Jacobs and Marc Dobson established the six-hectare estate just outside the German-heritage village of Hahndorf back in 2002. Hahndorf Hill is now firmly established as ‘Australia’s proud standard …

Wirra Wirra purchases Adelaide Hills producer Hahndorf Hill Read More »

Steenberg. Producers in South Africa’s Constantia region joined forces to keep their vineyards safe from devastating wildfires that tore across Table Mountain National Park this past weekend. The silver lining, they all agree, is that the 2025 harvest is safely in barrel and tank. While 3,000ha of vegetation have been scorched, vineyards are largely unscathed …

Wildfires threaten Constantia, South Africa’s most historic wine region Read More »