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The Lessser-Known Crus of the Southern Rhone with Matt Walls

When it comes to the Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape often hogs the limelight, but there are a further eight Crus that all have something unique to offer (Gigondas, Vacqueyras, Beaumes-de-Venise, Rasteau, Cairanne, Vinsobres, Lirac and Tavel). In this webinar we'll look at the terroir of each of these lesser-known Crus in…

Navigating the Landscape of Luxury Wine with Peter Yeung and Dr. Liz Thach, MW

This compelling seminar presented by Peter Yeung and Dr. Liz Thach, MW, authors of the recently-published and highly-acclaimed book, Luxury Wine Marketing: The Art and Science of Luxury Wine Branding What you will learn: The size and scope of the global luxury wine market The key attributes and characteristics of…

Drink Like a Roman, The Legacy of Ancient Times Through Modern Italian Wines with Tanya Morning Star Darling

This webinar will explore wine in Ancient Roman society: what it meant to people, what viticulture and winemaking techniques they used, and we will imagine what it tasted like! This webinar will explore examples of ancient grapes and winemaking techniques still in use today to make many modern wines of…

Have Your Say: Natural Wine with Andrew Jefford and Simon J. Woolf

HAVE YOUR SAY! Did you enjoy reading the Great Debate on Natural Wines by Simon Woolf and Andrew Jefford? Now it is YOUR chance to HAVE YOUR SAY with our two debaters. We are following up their written debate with a live one, and encourage you to share your opinion…

Wines of the Valencian Community – a personal history by Quentin Sadler

Quentin's love of wine was kickstarted by a misspent youth on family holidays in Spain's Valencian Community. From his first tentative sips of wine, when he was three, he has seen the wines of the region utterly transformed. Join him as he revisits that transformation and see how this rather…

WSG Live: Andrew Jefford hosts Alessandro Masnaghetti

As Hugh Johnson first grasped in the late 1960s, there is no greater tool to wine understanding than fine cartography: the chance to read a landscape from a single sheet of paper. More and more wine regions around the world, moreover, are now refining the manner in which both growers…

Tasting Vineyard Soil in Wine with Alex Maltman

Why do we think that the vineyard soil is so important for the taste of wine? The rocks and soils in the vineyard certainly affect how vines grow but these days they pervade writings on wine flavor; some commentators believe they are the overriding contributor to taste. There are restaurant…

Mâconnais: The Land of Plenty with Tim Magnus

The Mâconnais is the most southerly area of Bourgogne before one reaches Beaujolais and the Rhône Valley. The area produces some of the greatest value Chardonnay wines in the world but has long been overlooked with much more attention being lavished on its more prestigious northern neighbours in the Côte…

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