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There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with dark-coloured red wines. It’s just that all wines were moving further in this direction, and no one was the slightest bit interested in reds that were paler in colour.

How quickly this has changed! In the space of just a few years, wine lovers are beginning to realize that there is no correlation between depth of colour and wine quality. Pale reds don’t necessarily lack flavour; they seldom lack aroma. Just as there’s been a shift away from high alcohol, a corresponding shift is beginning with red wine colour.

(source wineanorak.com)

I am very shocked and sad to learn of the death overnight of Charly Foucault, the elder of the two brothers who run the exceptional Clos Rougeard making Saumur-Champigny, Saumur and Coteaux de Saumur. These are great wines and they have a great capacity to age.
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Charly was great company with a fine sense of humour.

(from Jim Budd's blog : http://jimsloire.blogspot.fr/)

“We believe that Sussex will become synonymous with high-quality sparkling and still wine,” said Mark Driver, a former hedge fund manager turned wine producer. “When you go into a bar in London or Tokyo or New York in say 20 years’ time, the waiter will ask you: 'Would you like a glass of Champagne or a glass of Sussex’?

Today, 14% of the winemakers in Napa are women, which, while still far lower than it should be, is an encouraging sign of the turning tides in wine. Give it another decade and the figure will hopefully be far higher.