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Can you believe it has been a week since we closed the doors on the final event of our national, five-city tour of LANGTONS Classification of Australian Wine Eighth Edition? Over 2500 guests, RIEDEL glass in hand, took to the red carpet, passed the Vintec Wine Cabinets and tasted from the 4837 opened bottles of Australia's best and finest wines as we landed what are, without doubt, the best wine-tasting events in Australia. We are immensely grateful to our winery and industry partners for helping us deliver this mammoth effort. We have been waiting to host these events since we last did so in 2018. And the wines. Oh! The wines. Over 100 of them. A is for Arras EJ Carr Late Disgorged. We like to open our events with fizz, and, naturally, we were at the top of the tree for the Classification series. B is for Bass Phillip tasted next to Bindi, an elite-level masterclass in distinct Australian terroirs. C is for Classified Chardonnay, a tasting that took us from east to west with the deep energy of Cullen Kevin John to the tense, acrobatic balance of Tyrrell's Vat 47. Next to Shiraz. But where to start? Barossa Valley? Eden Valley? Hunter Valley? Or Beechworth or Canberra or Sunbury or Yarra or Grampians. Australia does Shiraz well and in many different styles and places. Following that with Cabernets felt like artillery being rolled out as Coonawarra and Margaret River staked their claims for regional dominance. Yarra Valley and Tasmania asked serious questions with flagship offerings that had punters sniffing, sipping, oohing and aahing as they got into deep discussions with one eye on the clock. Being in the fine wine auction business, we know what rarity does for demand. Six years since our last Classification event feels like a very long time. However, LANGTONS Classification is a guide for buyers to secondary market trends for Australian fine wine. The time between drinks allows us to map great changes in Australian fine wine rather than vintage variation. And what a pleasure it was to spend time with the Australian fine wine community, makers and tasters alike. RIEDEL - The Wine Glass Company Vintec The Australian

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I haven't said much about wine lately because I've been too preoccupied by the other parts of my life that have demanded more time. But I have not forgotten that the reason I am where I am is because of a deep love and appreciation I developed for wine almost ten years ago, inspired by the Terlato Wines documentary that followed three of its winemakers during the 2012 harvest. I've just been trying to find my right place here among the vines. According to a study conducted by Monique Bell, PhD,  specifically, less than 1% of the 8,000 wineries, winemakers, négociants, and brand owners in the United States are black-owned. This statistic highlights the significant underrepresentation of black entrepreneurs in the wine industry despite black consumers making up more than 10% of American wine drinkers. In Napa Valley, Brown Estate Vineyards stands alone as the region's first and only Black-owned estate winery. I have lived and worked in Napa Valley for the last four years, and while I have seen a handful of black-owned brands emerge and gain recognition, I have yet to see another Black-owned estate. Many of the DEI programs that started in 2020 focus primarily on investment in education and sales and marketing, not brand or land ownership. (Of course, the economics of wine affect people of all kinds and prevent a barrier to entry for most.) As we celebrate Black Business Month and the start of the harvest season, it's an excellent opportunity to support and enjoy wines from Black-owned wineries. *If I've missed a Black-owned Napa Valley estate, please let me know in the comments. And, if there's a Black-owned wine you're loving at the moment, add that, too.

Verona is in the middle of Veneto, the most prolific wine region in Italy. Here's how to prioritize your Verona wine region experience - and note which famous wine region we excluded from our list.  https://bit.ly/3Ybso6M

Georgian wine traditions – what do you know about one of the oldest winery traditions? In the newest episode of the Caucasus Podcast we’ll talk with the expert from Tsereteli Wine, Nikoloz Tsirgvava who explained us the main Georgian traditions, qvevri wine production, making of the Georgian wines and how the Georgian wine is being produced nowadays. #Georgian #georgianwine #traditions #businessingeorgia

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Concours Mondial de Bruxelles comes to Guanajuato, Mexico In a few days Mexico will host the 31st Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, the event will take place from 7 to 9 June in the city of Leon in the colorful state of Guanajuato, cradle of Mexican national independence, as well as the birthplace of the great painter-muralist Diego Rivera . It is the first time that the CMB lands in American lands even if the state of Guanajuato has already hosted important international events related to wine (2017,2021,2022). It is no coincidence that the choice fell on Mexico, the per capita consumption of wine is constantly increasing, as is the production and quality of Mexican wine, we remember that the oldest winery on the American continent is Casa Madero founded in 1597 located in the Valley of Parras in the state of Coahuila, furthermore excellent qualitative productions can be attributed to the Guadalupe Valley and Ensenada in the state of Baja California Nord, also the state of Guanajuato produces excellent wines... just to name a few. https://lnkd.in/gnUQt2Tt

Authority with authenticity. Had a great chat with a friend a few months back, and we got on the topic of sommeliers and how they sell a wine. In particular, a sommelier pitching him on how a hillside and gravel road were situated in a particular vineyard of France. Well, unbeknownst to the somm, this friend was just at this area a few weeks back and could authoritatively comment that it was not in fact how the somm explained it to be. A reminder that as the authority in that moment, the somm can explain how they imagine something to be, and what the methods of production, varietal, etc objectively are, but by straying into something he didn't have firsthand knowledge of, he leveraged an appeal to authority to the wrong person at the wrong time. You can be an authority without all the answers. Especially in something like wine, where I've tried hundreds of thousands, but would never represent myself as having traveled the globe to learn in the territory itself. Be authoritative, know your sh*t. But don't lose authenticity in the process. #sommelier #authenticity