Over deze editie

  • The Kaleidoscope of Meunier: how Champagne’s long-overlooked grape has become a lens for diversity, identity, and expression.
  • In-depth interviews with Champagne star winemakers: Elise Dechannes, Jérôme Lefèvre, Aurore Casanova, and Jérôme Coessens.
  • Champagne gets spiced: Philippe Marquès, head sommelier at Royal Champagne, elaborates on his idea of “pepper pairings.”
  • A few great ideas for when sparkling wines should not try to be Champagne.
  • What changed at La Dive Bouteille this year?
  • Can terroir survive dealcoholization? What a mini-vertical of non-alcoholic sparkling wine reveals about the category’s future.
  • “Robert Parker gave me 61 points”: fantastic outtakes on cool Spanish wines from the Off the Records salon, held in Madrid.
  • An insider’s view on Marsala by Manfredi Franco.
  • Garrigue or Gariga: Dominic Ashby follows in the footsteps of Julia Blackburn in Thin Paths: Journeys In and Around an Italian Mountain Village, tracing the coast from the French Riviera through to Liguria.
  • Young Winemaker’s Diary, Part IV — by Stephanie Wangui, former senior sommelier at Noble Rot Mayfair, who spent almost a year as a trainee viticulturist at the legendary Domaine Roulot.
  • Wine Substacks We Read, Part II: six wine writers bringing us knowledge and inspiration.
  • How have vegetables changed the rules of pairing? We asked sommeliers and wine directors from Plates (London, UK), Oyster Oyster (Washington D.C., USA), and Horváth (Berlin, Germany).