New Masters of Wine Announced This Week
Three new MWs have been announced by the Institute of Masters of Wine, bringing the global total to 419. In a post last week, the IMW officially congratulated New Zealand’s Michael Henley and the UK’s Siobhan Turner and Claire Blackler. All three have been inaugurated into the world’s premier group of wine connoisseurs. But what
The World’s Most Expensive Wine
Anyone reading this article with half a million dollars in their pocket had better take note. Screaming Eagle Cabernet 1992 was aged in oak barrels, contains notes of blackberry, and sells for a reasonable – some might even say cheap – $500,000. That makes the Screaming Eagle the most expensive bottle in the eight-thousand-year history
Removal of Certificates and Lab Tests on Imports Saves £100m for UK Wine Industry
Anyone visiting a British supermarket this month will have noticed the bare shelves, the shortages of milk and bread, the staff hurrying from till to till, the products arranged to hide the empty spaces. There simply aren’t enough goods or people. The culprit is what the press has begun to call the pingdemic: a new
Sub-Saharan Africa: Open for Business
The vast and varied continent of Africa is home to some sumptuous alcohol. Mbege, made from fermented bananas and a little quinine bark, is made by women of the Chagga people in the shadow of Kilimanjaro. A sorghum beer brewed by the Zulu, you can buy umqombothi on the streets of Durban, South Africa, or
Damage from the 2021 European Floods
Catastrophic floods are ongoing across Western and Central Europe, leaving hundred dead, hundreds of thousands more without power, and causing billions of euros of property damage. As the River Meuse swelled to several times its usual size, Belgium’s government referred to the destruction as “one of the greatest natural disasters our country has ever known”.
Peace At Last In EU-US Tariff War
What is this likely to mean for the consumer? Wine prices are unlikely to drop in the short term as much of the costs will be absorbed by retailers; there are, however, exceptions to this. According to Ben Aneff, President of the US Wine Trade Alliance and instrumental in having tariffs frozen, prices of Burgundy
Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year
In the second of our two-part article on the Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year, we shift our spotlight to the Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year. With judges including David Loftus, internationally renowned food photographer, and Magui Chadwick, Family Ambassador at Viña Errazuriz, the award was split into three categories: People, Places, and
The Pink Lady ® Food Photography Awards 2021
The Pink Lady ® Food Photography Awards return with the same startling range, the same ambition, and the same reputation as the world’s premier food photography competition. Its twenty-five categories include the World Food Programme Food for Life and the Fujifilm Award for Innovation. That’s before we get to the Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the
Five Wine Festivals for the Post-Covid Era
Vinexpo Shanghai: 20th – 22nd October 2021 In-person events have returned across China and, masks aside, so has a sense of normality. No surprise, then, that the first physical wine festivals should be held in Shanghai. Taking place at the enormous Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center (SWEECC), the event will welcome partners and