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January 23 2017

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Heidi Chan

Tenuta di Ghizzano: Decanter Baudain's top 30 2015 Tuscan wines

Written By Heidi Chan - January 23 2017

Decanter DWWA judge Richard Baudain talks about Tuscan wines in the recent release of Decanter, the Italy 2017 Edition, Tenuta di Ghizzano, Il Ghizzano ranked among the "Top 30" of Baudain's recommendation.

Source: Decanter magazine
Date: January 2017

Vintage Report - Tuscan Coast 2015

In a region that offers much variety, a hot vintage was tempered by proximity to the Mediterranean, with early signs of the highest quality in the wines, especially the reds, reports Richard Baudains.

Pisa Province

In the past known - but not particularly Widely - for light, everyday drinking wines, Pisa is emerging as one of the most interesting areas of the Tuscan Coast. Formerly a satellite Chainti zone, today international varieties predominate. Producers describe the 2015s as 'powerful' (Ginevra Venerosi Pesciolini from Tenuta di Ghizzano) ...

Tenuta di Ghizzano, Il Ghizzano 2014: Irresistible wine with a lot more personality than you'd expect from an entry-level red. The estate does make flashier wines, but you can't beat this for sheer drinking pleasure. Floral and berry aromas, soft but full of energy. Drink 2020-2030.

View Tenuta di Ghizzano wines available on Cuvees.com

Date

July 21 2016

Written By

Heidi Chan

Le Monde report: Château Marsyas, The Grapes of Hope

Written By Heidi Chan - July 21 2016

Translated title of article: In Lebanon, The Grapes (fruit) of Hope
Source: Le Monde
Stéphane Lagoutte from Le Monde reports after a trip out East in Lebanon.

 

(Photo Above: Karim and Sandro Saadé)

It was a pleasant afternoon enjoying barrel blending experience. Stéphane Lagoutte was sitting with the Saadé brothers Karim and Sandro, owners of Château Marsyas here in the Bekaa Valley and Domaine de Bargylus in Syria. Together with oenologist  adviser Stéphane Derenoncourt who arrived from France for this tasting session, they started off by tasting the wines separately - 17 batches of barrel samples - then creating a series of ‘assemblages’ for the 2015 vintage. Some of these wine samples were collected in small plastic water bottles, not presented in a way that is as fancy as many thought it would be, but the journey wasn’t trivial: they were all coming straight from Syria by taxi. 

In the wine cellar of Château Marsyas, which houses a dozen of stainless steel tanks and a hundred of oak barrels, about one third of them will be the tasted. Derenoncourt was so focused on the gustatory marathon as he wrote scrupulously in a notebook.  

Mortar fire

This might sound a bit crazy to produce wine in a country at war.  Located inside the conflict zone, the fighting broke out fewer than 500 meters away from the vineyard. Even after the war has now come to an end, the city requires checkpoints and is armed with security forces. "If you start a vineyard you want to make wine, you got to have confidence in the future, in the piece of land we have chosen. There's risk in growing grapes here but it shouldn't be the reason stopping us from making quality wines." 

Wines from Domaine de Bargylus and Château Marsyas

A combination of weather extremes heat waves and coolness, producing fine and complex wines. ...

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Date

June 11 2016

Written By

Heidi Chan

Okanagan wines poured at CanCham Annual Ball

Written By Heidi Chan - June 11 2016

Cuvees was proud to be once again a beverage sponsor of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce Hong Kong Annual Ball 2016. A hand-picked selection of British Colombia wines from Okanagan were served at the event, many of the guests that we spoke to said that they really enjoyed the wine and that it was a great pairing with the meal. These wines are now available in Hong Kong, those of you interested in Canadian wines please check 'em out via the followings links: 

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