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Ornellaia announces new Napa project 5th February, 2021 by Rupert Millar Tuscan estate Ornellaia has announced a new venture in California in partnership with Dalla Valle Vineyards, called ‘DVO’. The first wine from the new label, the 2018, is due for release this October. It is an almost 100% Cabernet Sauvignon save for a little Cabernet Franc added too. Ornellaia’s estate director Axel Heinz and Maya Dalla Valle, said in a joint statement: “Dalla Valle and Ornellaia’s friendship and ...

Online retailer Winebuyers seeks ‘investors’ 5th February, 2021 by Rupert Millar Online wine club Winebuyers is seeking buyers and/or investors for its business, presenting itself as a thriving concern when, behind the scenes, there is a growing clamour from a string of unpaid suppliers and unhappy customers. The “disruptive” and “exclusive” online wine club is currently listed as an acquisition opportunity on Hilco Streambank’s website, the company having been appointed to, “act...

En Magnum targets file lawsuit 4th February, 2021 by Rupert Millar Sandrine Goeyvaerts and Fleur Godart, two women at the centre of the En Magnum cartoon furore last year, have filed a lawsuit citing sexism and cyber-harassment. In late November last year the Bettane & Desseauve title En Magnum, published a cartoon which was decried as “crude”, “misogynistic” and “sexist”. It featured a tall, blonde woman wearing a revealing red dress propositioning a squat, rotund wine merchant in...

Catena Institute finds ‘irrefutable proof’ of terroir 4th February, 2021 by Rupert Millar The Catena Institute of Wine has announced the publication of a new paper which it says, “irrefutably proves the existence of terroir and its persistence across vintages”. A long-debated term in wine, its meaning and even existence supported and dismissed by generations, the study set out to find if wines (not grapes or must) from different sites could be identified by a chemical fingerprint. Publis...

2009 wines rising as Year of the Ox approaches 3rd February, 2021 by Rupert Millar The Chinese New Year on 12 February this year will usher in the year of the Ox. A previous ‘Ox vintage’ was 2009, and wines from that vintage have been the second most-traded on the Liv-ex platform so far this year. The year of the Ox has fallen on some much heralded vintages in the past, including 2009, 1985 and 1961. Liv-ex has noted that buying demand from Asia is driving activity in 2009 vintage wines, esp...