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Ever wondered what the medal sticker on a wine bottle really tells you? I judge at the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, and this is how tho...

…. Kippenvel over m’n hele lijf, was ik nu getuige van een eeuwenoud ritueel? Ik bevond me op dat moment zo’n 6100 jaar terug in de tijd,...

Monastrell or Mourvèdre, often misunderstood as rustic and bold, reveals its true nature here in a myriad of expressions. It's as if the ...

Ik weet niet hoe het met jou zit, maar er is iets magisch aan het moment dat je een fles opent en de eerste bruisende bubbels je tegemoet...

French wine and I were never friends. Here is how the French Wine Scholar programme changed that and gave my WSET Diploma a real head start.

There's a place where time seems to stand still, where each vineyard tells a story etched into the earth, where every sip of wine carries...

What makes Pinot Gris and Pinot Grigio so different? Well, it has mostly to do with the way they are grown, harvested and with the opted ...

Orange, amber, qvevri, karas: four words the trade throws around as if they mean the same thing. They don't, and knowing the difference i...

Austria's Tuscany is its greenest wine trip: five Südsteiermark cellars worth pulling over for, farmhouse feasts, castle cellars and a vi...

The smallest of Styria's three regions carries the most vines and quietly makes some of Europe's finest Sauvignon Blanc. A field guide to...

Austria's volcanic east, where vines root into extinct volcanoes: the Eruption Wines and a Krispel B1 aged inside a basalt sarcophagus.

Austria's pink outlier, made from a single stubborn grape in the green hills of Weststeiermark. Here is what Schilcher tastes like, and t...