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Exclusive Latour

Latour ‘Would you spend €130 of your own money on a bottle of this wine ?’ I asked fellow tasters who included wine writers and restaurateurs.

‘Not really’ was the unanimous response.

We were tasting Louis Latour Corton-Charlemange Grand Cru wines from 2008 to 2010 and we had just been told the retail price.

Louis-Fabrice Latour was conducting the tasting and he went into considerable detail about the terroir within which the wines are produced. At the end of the 19th century his family pulled up entire vineyards of Aligoté and Pinot Noir vines to replace them with Chardonnay and since then they have been producing world-renowned white wines.

Biodynamic Moser

Much of the theory of biodynamic farming makes perfect sense. Get rid of chemicals, be they in fertilizers or pesticides and create a balance of natur

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e in which each species will co-exist and co-protect.

A select group of winemakers have been doing this now for decades, creating biodiversity in their vineyards with insects, flowers and other plans encouraged to share space and soil with the vines which produce ‘organic grapes’.

The results have been encouraging and most of the wines produced in this manner are excellent. They may not be the greatest in the wine world, but that is principally because grapes for the more traditionally ‘fine wines’ are not produced biodynamically- yet.

Wine System Launched

Coravin, Inc. has announced that its award winning Coravin Wine Access System, a new technology that allows users to pour and enjoy wine from their favourite bottles without pulling the cork, will now be available in Ireland, via distributor Findlater Wine and Spirit Group.

For the first time, wine enthusiasts are able to enjoy wine by the glass without committing to the whole bottle. Coravin’s wine access technology leaves the cork in place, safeguarding the wine from oxidisation and allowing it to age naturally. Wine lovers can enjoy and share the same bottle during multiple occasions, over weeks, months or even longer without any wastage. Coravin also enables wine drinkers to access wine across multiple bottles during a single occasion.

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