The Week in Wine Episode 32

Don finds contentment in two very different places: Martinborough Pinot Noir and Jim Barry Cabernet Sauvignon (and Shiraz). Olly has a magnum of Côte du Puy and a Dauvissat Chablis. Against the backdrop of a bottle of 1945 Romanée-Conti going for over $800,000, the last week saw readers looking into the US study that high by-the-glass wine prices are pushing diners away from wine to cocktails and other beverages; the 50th anniversary of the Judgement of Paris sees US wines do well again; the most-wanted Tuscan wines is an all-red affair; and we look at the first in a series on South African wines. Olly has some news from Krug regarding last week's rumor that a third clos label is on the way, but the big news is the number of Russian oligarchs with vineyard holdings in Tuscany and wider north Italy. Champagne gets hit with frost and a French entrepreneur has a novel idea for a commercial blind wine tasting setup (including buying a bottle of wine partly covered by a box and using an app to run the tasting – which can be competitive). There's a podcast exclusive over the latest on Bordeaux barrel-hire firm H&A's financial woes (and the wider impact on the wine industry) and, still in Bordeaux, Don looks forward to our En Primeur barrel tasting coverage. Our Most Wanted series also starts to ramp-up.

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