For anyone who has ever wondered how the bottle of wine on your table was produced, Bordeaux’s Ecole du Vin has the answer. A new course ‘Destination Wine Harvest’ has been introduced to their programme and is an interactive trip for wine lovers to experience the wine harvest first hand.

The two-day course is spent pa

By Guy Collins

Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) — Prices of top Bordeaux wines from the benchmark 2000 vintage rose or held firm at a Sotheby’s fine-wine auction in London this week, its first of the year.

A case of Chateau Latour fetched 5,290 pounds ($10,450) and a Margaux 5,060 pounds, both five percent above the lev

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Bordeaux Wine Bureau has announced the Today’s Bordeaux jurors who will select the 2007 list of 100 top Bordeaux wines available in the United States priced $8-$25 retail. This year’s jury is comprised of Paul Chaconas, Bordeaux category manager for retailer Total Wine & More, Mark Oldman, author of the best-selling Oldman’s Guide to Outsmarting Wine (Penguin Books), and Cat Silirie, Wine Director of Boston’s No. 9 Park rest

THE ST-ÉMILION CLASSIFICATION
SAINT-ÉMILION WAS OMITTED FROM THE 1855 CLASSIFICATION. As a result, the local Wine Growers’ Union decided to formally draw up a Classification of St-Émilion in 1955. It was to be revised every ten years to keep it from becoming to rigid and outdated. Although this is not happening on schedule, it has been revised twice, most recently in 1985.
The classification was based on soil, a tasting of the wine, and the reputation o

THE GRAVES CLASSIFICATION
OTHER THAN HAUT-BRION, the clasification of 1855 did not take into account the châteaux of Graves. It was first classified in 1953, but the classification did not became official until the 1959 ranking. The one class list is divided bewteen red wines and white wines, which means that some châteaux are mentioned twice, once in each category. To avoid disputes the châteaux within each category, are not ordered by quality.
The 1959 Official