Jefford on Monday
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A wine made by empty spaces
[Andrew Jefford] Rossese in Liguria’s mountain valleys is one of the red wines which work in their own climate zones in the same kind of way as Pinot does in Burgundy.
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Out of bounds
[Andrew Jefford] Is there a conflict between brand and terroir? Can you express terroir in a brand without using appellation as a primary focus? Here’s a story.
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‘Dying a slow death...’
[Andrew Jefford] It didn’t seem to attract much notice at the time, but the Casa do Douro was finally declared bankrupt and wound up at the end of 2014, with debts of €160 million.
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Briskness in the air
[Andrew Jefford] Wow: how the Gigondas has advanced in the last decade, and what a special place it seems to be!
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Angela’s lemon
[Andrew Jefford] I have the significant lemon in front of me. What, though, should I do with it? I’m not sure. Here’s its story.
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What’s a perfect berry?
[Andrew Jefford] There is no more fretful decision in a winemaker’s year that choosing exactly when to send in the picking troops.
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Beyond the five booms
[Andrew Jefford] Australia’s resource boom may be drawing to a close, but there is no stopping the deep-cast mining of wine statistics and data at the University of Adelaide’s Wine Economics Research Centre under its energetic Executive Director, Professo
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After the eclipse
[Andrew Jefford] Most great terroirs, I’ve come round to believing, can produce different sorts of compelling wine.
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Runners and ringers
[Andrew Jefford] In contrast to elsewhere in France, 2013 was a superb vintage in Languedoc-Roussillon. For whatever reason, the world is thirsty for the wines of my adopted region at present.
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Some useless notes
[Andrew Jefford] The 2012 DRC wines are singularly beautiful wine objects, after all, and tracking the play of their lineaments might teach us something about wine beauty more generally.