Taste Like A Pro - Wine Quality, The Degree Of Excellence...

January 13, 2015 by JC Viens in Articles

Reproduced from Year 3, Issue #13 of Spirito di Vino Asia...

Our readers noticed that we score wines on a 100 points scale. In this column, we aim to clarify the criterions used in our evaluations and provide them with keys to increase their confidence when buying wine. Here, we focus on Quality.

Wine Science by Ronald Jackson - Incredibly Invaluable Book

January 08, 2015 by JC Viens in Articles

Thorough explanations of viticulture & winemaking principles and relations to the style & quality we can expect in wine influenced by those techniques. Jackson demystifies a whole series of concepts...

DR HEGER – WORLD CLASS PINOT NOIR - My Report in Spirito Di Vino Asia...

January 03, 2015 by JC Viens in Articles, Tasting Notes

Reproduced from Spirito di Vino Asia, Year 3, Issue #13...

Few wine lovers would deny that Germany is the source of some of the best (if not the best) Rieslings in the world. Could it be possible that is also makes some of the most beautiful Pinot Noirs as well?

Synergy Between Wine & Design - My Latest Article In Spirito di Vino Asia...

December 29, 2014 by JC Viens in Articles

Reproduced from Year 3, Issue #13 of Spirito di Vino Asia...

For Philippe Starck, “the beauty of Champagne is that, before being a wine, it is firstly an idea, an intention… it is a project”. And so the tone was set for the collaboration between this iconic French designer and the famed Champagne House Louis Roederer to create Brut Nature 2006, their first new cuvée since Crystal Rosé more than 30 years ago...

Massaya, Seriously Heroic Winemaking...

December 28, 2014 by JC Viens in Articles

I hear the expression "heroic winemaking" more & more these days & each time I think of Lebanon's #Massaya located in the Bekaa Valley, smack in the middle of a zone where travel is advised against by most western governments due to high risk of attacks by Islamist extremist groups (http://bit.ly/1wTIqPT).