Wine ChroniclesJudging top wines with oysters
#osyterriot2018 in Washington D.C. By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com (top photo by Maria Denton) 6 November 2018 How do you sample an oyster? You can’t really chew and spit, as you do with wine. That was but one question I pondered, when asked to participate last night as a judge for #osyterriot2018. It was the […]
Pomerol 2016 from bottle wins big
Including brands at $35-$55 per bottle (Bordeaux 2016 from bottle, part I) 4 November 2018 By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com Writing about 2016 from bottle, let’s start with Pomerol, an appellation that is often better now in bottle than it was from barrel in April 2017. This small appellation of some 150 estates is not […]
Assyrtiko: A Comet beyond Santorini
By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 9 October 2018 In recent articles about Assyrtiko in Greece, in Wine Review Online and in Decanter, I focused on Santorini, the grape’s main island claim to fame. But, as Yiannis Karakasis MW reminded me over a marvelous lunch earlier this month just outside Athens, do not limit yourself to […]
Swiss wine visit
From the Alps to Lake Biel By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 15 September 2018 Greetings dear readers – and sorry for a long absence. Looking for a new apartment here in Strasbourg, and my work for the Council of Europe, which will be taking me to Vienna, Austria ; Odessa, Ukraine and Athens, Greece in […]
An elitist wine snob should know where to draw the line
By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 1 September 2018 Greetings readers, writing to you from lovely Neustadt an der Weinstrasse in Germany, where the harvest has begun earlier than usual given the hot summer. I am here for yet another series of tastings of Mundus Vini, one of the most important wine competitions in the world. […]
Croatian (wine) Journal, Part II
White wine pleasure in Dubrovnik 20 August 2018 By Panos Kakaviatos for Wine-Chronicles.com After spending a few days at the charming waterfront harbor resort of Cavtat – see Part I – I took a picturesque boat journey to Dubrovnik, which is the focus of this second part of my Croatia summer blog wine chronicle. As […]
Wine serendipity in Switzerland
Great wines, great friends By Panos Kakaviatos for Wine-Chronicles.com 17 August 2018 While pouring a glass of the Heida Visperterminen, Michel Falck, owner and director of the fine wine shop Au Millésime in Strasbourg, France, says that Swiss wines count among “Les meilleurs du monde“. Now, Heida Visperterminen may sound like some Swiss medicine, but […]
Croatia (wine) Journal, Part I
Wine under the Cavtat sun 13 August 2018 By Panos Kakaviatos for Wine-Chronicles.com Cavtat sunsets bring out your inner Monet: you feel compelled to take variations of the similar sun setting theme on your smart phone. Cavtat – pronounced “tsavtat” – is perfect for a summer break. Clean, friendly and not too bon marché, with prices […]
Champagne: harvest news
Confident in its export markets, Champagne growers and houses agree to set the available yield at 10,800 kg/ha. Report from Comité Champagne 25 July 2018 Expecting stable sales in 2018 and a slight growth over the next few years (especially in the export markets, which now account for more than 50% of the total shipments), Champagne […]
Bordeaux 2017 futures campaign: “underwhelming” and “spoiled”
With the permission of Liv-Ex 8 July 2018 Dear readers, I am enjoying some fresh summer mountain air in the Swiss Alps as I post this text, coming from the informed people at Liv-Ex. But before you read their rather dour assessment of the #Bdx17 futures campaign, just a few words I have heard from […]
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