Wine Atlas

For 25 years, as civilian wine lovers, we tasted hundreds of wines a year. Now, we taste thousands. But we have never lost our capacity for surprise and wonder. We enjoy just about all wines in their own way, but we also look forward to those days when we have a wine that takes us someplace special, that rare Delicious! wine, with an exclamation point, that is unique but, at the same time, fits into a time-taste line with all of the other greatest wines of our lives. The first-growth wines from bordeaux should offer that kind of life experience and, sometimes, they do. This is the story of one that did.

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With all the concerns over the status of French wines, it’s a great time to be a consumer. First they were giving away wine in the streets, now supermarket wine buyers in France are getting insane deals on top French wines. Decanter reports that while it used to be that good wines weren’t sold in supermarkets now supermarkets are selling top chateaux such as Margaux, Mouton Rothschild, Sociando Mallet and Cos d’Estournel at deep discounts. High end wine sales have increased as the French snap up the deals(...)

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Theo gets to grips, or should that be sips, with white wines from Alsace.

Well, after my last installment about the way to buy expensive which cannot be drunk for at least two years, I thought I'd offer some advice on wines that are as far from en-primeur Bordeaux as you can get. The wines in this article are white, available now, admirably affordable and will only prove to be a good investment if every other wine region on the planet goes up in smoke. Yes, I’m talking about Alsace.

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AT first glance, Bruno Paillard seems anything but a rebel. Dressed in an elegant and hardly inexpensive suit, he appears to be every bit the suave French businessman very much part of the establishment.

But, once upon a time, Paillard was the quintessential rebel who acted against his father’s wishes. His act of defiance in leaving the family business to set up his own Champagne house caused something of ruckus within the Paillard family, to say the least.

BY MARTIN VENGADESAN

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A lesson in Champagne

It’s a wine

THE first thing you must know about champagne,” said champagne maker Bruno Paillard, “is that it is a wine. Champagne is a great white wine named after the region in which it is produced. European wines are named not by variety but by region of production – for instance, port is actually from the region of Oporto in Portugal.”

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Paris - Groupe Taittinger, best known for its Champagne but also a force in the luxury products and hotel sectors, said on Monday that it had instructed French banks BNP Paribas and Rothschild to study approaches made by potential buyers.

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Pernod Ricard SA on Friday secured European Union antitrust approval to buy Allied Domecq PLC for $14 billion after agreeing to sell certain brands.

The European Commission, the EU's regulatory arm, cleared the purchase after Pernod Ricard agreed to sell Glen Grant, Old Smuggler and Braemar whiskey and the 1920 and CR&F brandy.

The companies also agreed to end certain distribution agreements in Portugal for the Tullamore Dew Irish whiskey brand and Moet & Chandon and Dom Perignon champagnes, the commission said...

Bloomberg News Published June 25, 2005

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Bordeaux - VinExpo, described as the largest gathering of wine and spirits buyers and sellers in the world, is this year also a showcase of the industry's response to a rapidly changing consumer market, reports Ahmed ElAmin in Bordeaux.

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