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Much to the delight (and surprise) of many tasters, Bordeaux has produced very good wine in 2014. It is certainly the best since 2010 and much of the talk at the en primeurs has been about where it ranks and which vintages it most resembles.
Decanter recently attended an event to mark the 200th anniversary of Cockburn's port, tasting not only the cask sample of the 2014, but also past vintages going back as far as 1863.
This week, I popped in on a 'new to market' tasting of regional French wines in London. I love these tastings because you get a sense of how exciting regional French winemaking is at the moment from the Loire and Alsace down to the Languedoc. So, here are six of the most interesting and impressive wines I came across.
Re-live the Bordeaux 2014 vintage growing season ahead of en primeur tasting week with this Decanter.com weather infographic, which draws on reports by Christie's consultant and Sauternes expert Bill Blatch and the union for classified chateaux, the UGC.
If you're in the mood to treat yourself and want to see some of the best that Spain has to offer, then see scores, tasting notes and prices on six interesting new releases from the recent Wines of Spain tasting in London.
There's greater pressure than usual on Bordeaux this year, but will the unveiling of the 2014 vintage in just one week from now be a pivotal moment for the en primeur system? Read the views of several market experts below.
Less than a month after he was crowned Decanter Man of the Year for 2015, Alvaro Palacios was back in London to show his latest barrel samples of 2014 Priorat and Bierzo wines. Read Steven Spurrier's tasting notes below.
Cava producers are gearing up to launch a new classification rank for single estate wines, but will it be enough to change consumer attitudes to Spain's best known sparkling wine? Amy Wislocki reports from a recent tasting in London.
Decanter recently attended an event hosted by Miguel Torres Senior to unveil Purgatori, conceived as a second wine to Grans Muralles, as well as to show vintages of Grans Muralles dating back to 1996.
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Sir Winston Churchill drank so much Pol Roger Champagne that there is a cuvee named in his honour. Here are some of the wartime leader's top quotes on wine, as the UK marks 50 years since his death.
As the Decanter World Wine Awards opens for 2015, check our guide to the entry process and the key dates for this year's competition.
It's been a rollercoaster ride for global Champagne sales since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, but official figures suggest consumer demand has been more stable in the last three years.
Each week we'll be bringing you a picture from events happening across the wine world... This week, Pitarra wine being served at Los Escobazos festival in Spain.
Data from estate agency Knight Frank shows that Sonoma in California has seen some of the steepest rises in vineyard prices. See the charts below for more details.
See the charts below to find out what types of wine closure are the most popular worldwide, and to see the statistical disparities between manufacturers.
See both sides of the debate as a new app launches that promises to show diners the retail prices of the wines on their restaurant menu, as featured in Decanter magazine's January issue.
A series of high-profile burglaries in the past two years suggest that wine cellars have joined banks, art galleries and jewellery shops at the top of the criminal underworld's hit list.
Far from cherry-picking vineyards in the top Bordeaux appellations, official figures show Chinese investors have a taste for prudence when buying chateaux in the region - and deals are not pushing up land prices universally.
See the charts below to view the number of Bordeaux chateaux bought by Chinese investors to date, as well as where and when the deals were done.
Scroll through this Decanter.com timeline to see how the multi-million-dollar, Rudy Kurniawan wine fraud case has developed in the 12 months since his conviction in a New York federal court.
