Monthly Archives: February 2021
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Posted: February 28, 2021Categories: BordeauxRead more »
Over the past 16 years, the US and the EU have been locked in a long running dispute over subsidies to Airbus and Boeing. In October 2019, under the Trump administration, the US escalated the dispute into a trade war by imposing a 25% import tariff on French wine, Italian cheese, Irish whisky, and a long list of other EU products. The EU retaliated by imposing tariffs on US export of fish, cheese, cotton, tractors, spirits... Needless to say, it was an unpleasant time for importers/exporters and consumers of the products involved. Us included.
After 16 months of tariffs war, avid wine buyers started to notice a gradual reduction in supply and increase in price of imported fine wine. Some customers have started asking the question: "what's wine got to do with airplanes? will the price continue rising?"On February 25, WSJ reported, Biden
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Posted: February 12, 2021Categories: BordeauxRead more »
Our selections for February 2021 are:
Paul Jaboulet Aîné Domaine de Thalabert 2018, Crozes-Hermitage, rated 93-95 by Joe Czerwinski of the Wine Advocate. Paul Jaboulet Aîné Crozes-Hermitage Domaine de Thalabert is from the northern Rhone Valley. This is a terroir known for producing good syrah, the only red grape permitted under the Crozes-Hermitage appellation's official rules. The origin of Syrah has been confirmed to be indigenous to the Rhone Valley. Crozes-Hermitage counts Côte-Rôtie and Hermitage as its neighbors. While not as coveted as Côte-Rôtie and Hermitage,
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Posted: February 10, 2021Categories: Bordeaux
Read more »Unlike their cousins at Mouton Rothschild who release a new wine label every year featuring a new artist's design, Lafite Rothschild almost never tinkered with its label's classic design, until the special occasion of 2018. In celebration of the family's 150th Anniversary of ownership (1868-2018), Saskia de Rothschild, the chairwoman of Domaines Barons de Rothschild, who took over the executive management role in 2017 from her father, imagined a symbol playing on Lafite’s historic and centenary label, which has two women in the foreground looking into the distance. A hot air balloon was chosen to disrupt the label, sketched by Black Adder, a creative duo of illustrators. Initials CL (150 in Roman numerals) are sketched on the balloon and inscribed in red on the shoulder of the bottle.
Saskia de Rothschild explains, “In 1868, hot
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Read more »Rarely does one find a movie goer who did not love the gifted actor and comedian Robin Williams. He was truly one of American cinema’s greatest talents. However, few would have heard of the grand plans Robin Williams had for his vineyard, Villa Soriso, (“the Valley of Smiles”), in Napa’s prestigious Mount Veeder Appellation. He planned to release a premium wine named Pym-Rae, the combination of the middle name of two of his children (his son Zachery Pym, and his daughter Zelda Rae). Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Cabernet Franc have been planted at Villa Soriso since the 1990s. Before the actor was ready to release his own wine, his estate sold its harvest to noteworthy wineries such as Rombauer, Vineyard 29, and Robert Craig.
After Robin Williams’ tragic passing, his wine estate was sold to the Tesseron family from Bordeaux, the owner of Château
