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Andrew Jefford: 'I wandered towards the cobalt Adriatic inlet next to the vineyards and looked back...'

Andrew Jefford: 'I wandered towards the cobalt Adriatic inlet next to the vineyards and looked back...'

🌍Other Decanter UK Dec 24, 2025 Blogs

Andrew Jefford's got a lovely travel piece in Decanter about Croatian wine country, specifically the Dalmatian coast around Primošten. He's chatting with local winemakers and oenology professors, exploring how the region's limestone soils and Adriatic setting shape wines like Babić – it's the kind of intimate, character-driven feature that reminds you why EU wine regions are so diverse and worth paying attention to.

Read full article From Digest #6
#104 – Xavier Jean: owner of Couvent des Jacobins

#104 – Xavier Jean: owner of Couvent des Jacobins

🌍Other Winemakersshow Dec 22, 2025 Blogs

Xavier Jean, fourth-generation owner of Couvent des Jacobins in Saint-Émilion, sat down for an in-depth chat about building a respected Grand Cru Classé estate and launching his bold Merlot project, Calicem, outside the traditional classification. It's a fascinating look at how family-run Bordeaux estates balance staying true to their terroir and philosophy whilst expanding internationally—he's even got markets sorted in Asia—without getting caught up in chasing trends.

Read full article From Digest #6
Man pokes bear while wine brand receives cease and desist letter

Man pokes bear while wine brand receives cease and desist letter

🌍Other Joe Fattorini Nov 28, 2025 Blogs

Joe Fattorini's got a brilliant take on how English sparkling wine brand Folc deliberately baited Bollinger into sending a cease-and-desist letter over their 'pink champers' ad – and how The Times then ran it as news. It's a cheeky dissection of modern wine PR tactics and how sometimes the most obvious manufactured stories get treated as genuine news by major publications.

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Jason Millar: The idea of terroir is sacred, but is it helping us to communicate what truly matters?

Jason Millar: The idea of terroir is sacred, but is it helping us to communicate what truly matters?

🌍Other Decanter UK Nov 25, 2025 Blogs

Jason Millar's piece in Decanter challenges whether terroir has become so ubiquitous in wine marketing that it's obscuring what consumers actually care about. He traces how terroir went from being a disparaging term meaning 'taste of dirt' to becoming industry doctrine after the 1976 Judgment of Paris, and questions whether talking about alluvial marls and soil composition is really helping us sell wine or just making the industry sound pretentious.

Read full article From Digest #2