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Vineyards overlooking the Mosel River, Germany

German wines are getting drier and drier

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My jury, number 9, at the Concours Mondial du Sauvignon, The Sauvignon Selection

Winners of the Sauvignon Selection, the CMB World Sauvignon Blanc competition | Per on Forbes

A small village in the Danube (Donau) Valley in Austria surrounded by vineyard hills on terrasses

Record numbers for Austria’s wine exports in 2022

A somewhat idealistic list of ingredients on a bottle of wine

What does my wine contain? Read the ingredient list! | New Brief #237

Wine School

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Learn more about wine with our fact-filled articles under the heading ”wine school”. On how wine is made, on wine regions, on grape varieties, on tasting wine and much, much more. Facts about the wonderful world of wine. Everything from in-depth technical articles on viticulture and winemaking to tasting tips to learn more about flavours and characters. Here are eight randomly selected articles in the category ”wine school”. Reload the page if you want to see others, or search and browse our archive which goes back to 2003.

Harvesting oak bark for cork, Alentejo, Portugal

The CEO of Amorim on corked wines, technical innovation and the world market | Per on Forbes

A vineyard with plenty of weed and flowers in spring, La Clape, Languedoc

Organic wines in a video master class with WineEd

Tu vin plus aux soirées, vin de france, Fabien Jouves, a natural wine word-play label

Natural wine – what is it? | part 6

Sangiovese grape bunch in Tuscany

The most popular grape varieties in Italy – the country of many grapes

A vine leaf attacked by mildiou (downy mildew)

Wine myths: hybrids make poor wines

Ferrari sparkling wine

The countries that drink (and produce) most sparkling wine in the world

Cleaning with water spray a big tractor equipped for spraying

Less spraying with resistant grape varieties

Sauvignon blanc landscape at Tupari Wines in the Awatere Valley, Marlborough, New Zealand

Are you a wine expert? | New Brief #235 (And where is Awatere?)

Opinion posts:

Caviar from sturgeon in the Gironde in France

On price and prestige | New Brief #216

Bottles of organic (ekologiskt) wine in a shop

Are consumers paying lip service or is it a paradigm shift? | New Brief out, #201

Graffiti / wall painting / mural on a wall in Valparaiso of a cartoon figure holding a wine glass

Is the “New World” outdated? | New Brief #233

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Sauvignon blanc landscape at Tupari Wines in the Awatere Valley, Marlborough, New Zealand

The best sauvignon blanc wines out of a selection of 122 at the Concours Mondial du Sauvignon | Per on Forbes

Young vines from the nursery ready to be planted, with graft and roots, Burgundy

The rootstock gets attention in Burgundy, finally – research underway to improve the quality

There are many storks around the Neusiedler See in Burgenland, Austria

Austria climbs to the top of the organic league with the highest portion of vineyards “ökologisch”, ahead of Italy and Spain

Young marselan vines in pebbly soil in the southern Rhone Valley, Costieres de Nimes

New grapes in Bordeaux to fight both heat and fungal diseases

Three Condrieu wines aged in different wood barrels, acacia, chestnut and oak, from Christophe Pichon

Acacia, chestnut or oak, does it make a difference for the taste of the wine? An experiment in Condrieu

Cleaning the wine cellar and steel tanks with water

Low-alcohol wine from Australia appeals to Americans, but also “normal” Australian wines appeal to the USA

Vin på hyllorna i en Systembolagsbutik

Systembolaget increases turnover in the first quarter of ‘23 but makes a loss, consumption decreases marginally

A brass sign at Champagne Henriot in Reims

Champagne Henriot becomes cooperative wine and teammates with Nicolas Feuillatte

"Hållbart val", sustainable choice, shelf labelling at Systembolaget

“Sustainable choice”, the Swedish monopoly Systembolaget’s new product labelling, scrapped after one year?

Glera grapes harvested for prosecco in Veneto, Italy

Prosecco is still a grape in Australia; will EU (i.e. Italy) stop that?

Ver Sacrum Gloria, made at La Cayetana, Mendoza, front label

Ver Sacrum, Mendoza – an unusual grenache from Argentina

Cow horns used for biodynamic preparation 500 and 501 just emptied, at Chateau La Grave, Vignoble Paul Barre, Fronsac, Bordeaux

Four new wine producers in Austrian respekt-BIODYN

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