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Vinipax showcases wines of Southern Portugal

Wines from Southern Portugal reviewed by International Journalists

Credits:
Director of Photography - Philippe SIMON
Correspondent - Suzanne MUSTACICH
Text: S.M.

World's Best Sommelier: Andreas Larsson

The Wine Trade:  Sommeliers
Andreas Larsson knows wine. This engaging Swede overcame fierce competition to win the title World's Best Sommelier in 2007. When he's not flying around the world, you'll find Andreas at the restaurant PM&Vänner in Växjö.

Goulee 2007: Cos d'Estournel's team creates a new world wine

File:  Bordeaux Futures 2007
The Editor's Choice

Cheval Blanc 2007: impromptu barrel tasting

File: Bordeaux Futures 2007
The Editor's Choice

Pomerol 2007 - Vieux Chateau Certan

File: Bordeaux Futures 2007: The Winemakers
The week of the UGC en primeurs tastings is hectic. 5,000 people, scrambling from one tasting to the next, criss crossing the region, many of them lost. A tasting with Alexandre Thienpont in the calm of Vieux Chateau ... 

Anabelle Cruse-Bardinet on Chateau Corbin's 2007 primeurs

File: Bordeaux Futures 2007: The Winemakers
While wine producers around Bordeaux have been offering samples of their 2007 vintage, their minds have already moved onto the next challenge: setting prices and release dates. Secret strategy? No strategy?...

Pingus: Spanish superstar makes guest appearance

File: Spanish Wines  - Wine Futures
Danish-born and Bordeaux-trained, Peter Sissek made his first vintage of Pingus in 1995. 4 hectares of ancient Tempranillo vines in the Ribera del Duero produce just 4,000-5,000 bottles a year. It's now the most expensive ...

Chateau D'Yquem 2007: extraordinary, racy, complex

File: Sweet wines - Bordeaux Futures 2007
The Editor's Choice
Someone recently asked me what had been my favorite tasting so far during the 2007 futures campaign.  Although I found very good wines in every appellation (Lafite, Petrus and Leoville Barton spring instantly to mind), ...

Haut Brion 2007 with Jean-Philippe Delmas

File "Bordeaux Futures 2007: The Wine Producers"

Jean-Philippe Delmas, Director of Domaine Clarence Dillon, spoke frankly about the 2007 vintage. In a nutshell: a good vintage for reds, but an outstanding vintage for whites. Each vintage has its own style, of course, and red and white wine grapes achieve different results under the same weather conditions.