Wine 2003

Recognition of DOCG status came in 1980. The Vino Nobile di Montepulciano production zone comprises the land belonging to the municipal area of Montepulciano in the province of Siena, a particularly favourable location on the hilly ridge between Val di Chiana and Val d’Orcia. The land in this production zone is at altitudes of between 250 and 580 metres a.s.l. and the...

German most famous and oldest viticulture is the „Steilhange“, steep slopes along the Mosella river. No wonder that Weingut Milz can praise such a long winemaking tradition and history. Since 1520, the Milz family has been known as great winemakers in Trittenheim, a wine village in the well-known Moselschleife. Parts of the original 1680 wine cellar are today still visible....

Givry is one of five wine producing villages located in the Côte Chalonnaise region of Burgundy. It is one of the larger wine producing areas with a total of 283 hectares (699 acres) planted mostly to the Pinot Noir grape. A scant 10 percent of Chardonnay is planted, but very rare to find outside the local bistros. The red wines are considered lighter and less tannic, but...

The Grand Cru parcel Roseneck is situated in the heart of Rüdesheimer Berg in Rheingau. The soil of the totally south-facing hillside is quarzite rocks. Riesling is one of the noble grape varieties and is capable of producing a variety of extraordinary white wine styles, and is most known for the sweeter-style German wine it produces. With the 2003 Riesling Rüdesheim Berg...

In the 1950s, the Clos des Menuts only covered one hectare of vineyards. Today it extends to over 25 hectares, not far from the historic town of Saint Emilion and located mainly in the western part of the municipality. This wine is a blend of 85% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Cabernet Franc. The high proportion of Merlot is a consequence of the iron-containing...

The classical dry red wine comes from the appellation Saint-Emilion in Bordeaux. Saint-Émilion is an Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) for wine in the Bordeaux wine region of France, where it is situated in the Libourne subregion on the right bank of the Dordogne. The wines of Saint-Émilion are typically blended from different grape varieties, the three main ones being...

Around 1870, Ferruccio Biondi-Santi began to set out in his vineyards a clone of the Sangiovese variety known as Brunello. Brunello began to be talked about after 1880. The first great vintage, officially, was the 1888 Brunello, of which five bottles still exist. With the 2003 Brunello di Montalcino Campogiovanni , comes a personal present meant for a person who is very...

There are not a lot of Chateaus that can be described as the exact mirror of the historic events of their own country. Chateau Giscours is one of these rarities. Its territory is very vast and resides in Margaux. The property passed down from a noble into the hands of the population during the French Revolution. It was then bought by a banker, who then built the beautiful...

The classical dry red wine comes from the appellation Saint-Emilion in Bordeaux. Saint-Émilion is an Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) for wine in the Bordeaux wine region of France, where it is situated in the Libourne subregion on the right bank of the Dordogne. The vineyards of the 1th Grand Cru Classé are located on the plateau near the town Saint Emilion and on...

Château Beau-Séjour Bécot was originally part of a single estate with Château Beausejour-Duffau. In 1869 the vineyards were split up between the owner's two children and they have been owned and run separately ever since. Beau-Séjour Bécot's 16,5 hectares of 1st Grand Cru Classé vineyards are superbly sited on a limestone plateau in the north-west part of the appellation....

Arnaud III de Pontac, a leading nobleman and the first president of the regional parliament- who insisted that the red wine from his family's estate, located in Pessac, was an unique, that didn't had sold to négociants, who then blended it with other wines. Starting in 1660, he demanded a premium price for a wine with a name that no one beyond Bordeaux knew- "Haut- Brion",...