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In the year 1855, dozens of châteaux in the Bordeaux region of southwest France were classified according to the quality of wines they produced. Yet few wine lovers know that during that same ...
Lots of Italian wines have letters on their labels as a part of Italy’s wine classification system, wine site Decanter says. These are: Luke said that if you see “IGT on the label, it comes ...
The broadening of the fine wine market beyond Bordeaux to not only Burgundy in France, but also Italy, Spain, the U.S., and beyond, is evident in Liv-ex’s latest “classification,” the London ...
has passed a resolution to adopt a new national wine-classification system. The three-tier classification model approved by the Association of German Prädikat Wine Estates (VDP) resembles the grand ...
In 2013, a group of international wine experts including viticulture specialists and educators conducted the first wave of the classification, judging participating wineries by quality of wine, ...
Three out of the four top-ranking wine estates had decided to remove themselves from the classification and one in particular, Château Angélus, was the only estate to work itself up all the ...
Varying opinions aside, the ongoing discourse about gender binaries raises questions about whether they have a place in wine. Does a masculine-vs.-feminine classification system help people find ...