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Andrew Jefford: France’s wine appellations need reform

France’s wine appellations: Then and now Appellations celebrate their 90th birthday next month. The first six of what (using EU nomenclature) we now refer to as appellations d’origine protegée or APs came into being on 15 May 1936. A torrent followed by 1938, including most Bordeaux and Burgundy appellations. This was a decade of soggy […]

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Wine and oak: Andrew Jefford explores changing tastes

What’s the relationship between vineyard and forest? Does one need the other? I’m not thinking of plant communities and root-system interactions – but chainsaws biting 100-year-old trunks to create tuns, barriques, staves and chips. Where are we with wine and oak? Raw new wine can be exciting (hence the heurige or ‘this year’ traditions of […]

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