Terroir Academy

One of the world’s most popular grape varieties, Merlot is relatively easy to grow and its wines much loved for their juicy fruit and softly tannic qualities. Compared to Cabernet Sauvignon, wines made with Merlot have a much gentler tannin...

Terroir Academy is a column in the TS Review that will detail the terroirs of the world’s best wines: this is the first one devoted to the best crus of Alsace and their wines, that are some of my favourite wines in the world. For the past ten years...

Verduno Pelaverga is one of Italy’s five or six hottest wines currently, with bottles literally flying off wine store shelves and restaurant wine lists all over the world, because people everywhere seemingly cannot drink enough of it. This...

After the presentation of Pelaverga Piccolo and the Verduno Pelaverga wine in my Wechat blog last week, I now describe another little-known Italian wine terroir, that of the Montello Colli Asolani in Veneto and its Recantina grape variety. Please...