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Bodegas y Viñedos Codorníu Raventós

Codorníu, one of Spain’s first wine families, has for more than 450 years produced some of the country’s finest wines. It owes its prestige position to an inexorable focus on quality and innovation.

Glenfarclas

Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky Glenfarclas, which translates as 'valley of the green grass' is an independent, Speyside, single malt, Scotch whisky produced at the Glenfarclas Distillery in Ballindalloch, Banffshire in Scotland.     The disti...

Domaine Francois Raveneau

The wines of Chablis are celebrated throughout the world, but one domaine dominates the top of all major wine connoisseurs' lists - Domaine Raveneau. Many state that Raveneau makes the finest white wines in the world, but with access to his wines ...

Chablis

Chablis Appellation:   Appellation Chablis Grand Cru Controlée Appellation Chablis Premier Cru Controlée Appellation Chablis Controlée Appellation Petit Chablis Controlée   Image - BIVB/GESVRES J.   All of Chablis' Grand Cru vineyards an...

Madeira

From time to time friends ask me what would be a good fortified wine that suited modern tastes to bring as a dinner guest. My honest answer would be to try a fine Madeira, (ironically, one of the oldest types of wine as the islands of Madeira have...

Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou

Château Ducru-Beaucaillou is the name of a wine producing vineyard situated in the Saint-Julien appellation of the Bordeaux region of France. It is also the name of the main red wine (Grand vin) produced by this property. Wine produced at the vine...

Old Pulteney

Among single malt aficionados, particularly those who have a preference for the types of malts from the Northern Highlands distilleries, Old Pulteney holds an almost cult status.

Penfolds Yattarna

Yattarna Chardonnay is Penfolds only premium white wine, given the nickname by some, the 'White Grange'. As the result of one of the most comprehensive and highly publicised wine development programmes ever conducted in Australia.

Penfolds Bin 620

The Waldorf Astoria in Shanghai, China on Wednesday morning, 17th November, 2011, was the chosen venue for the auspicious launch of Penfolds special bin wine, Bin 620, a 2008 vintage from the Australian estate.

Penfolds Grange

The first blend of Penfolds Grange was made in 1951 by winemaker Max Schubert, who was looking to produce a wine to rival the Bordeaux First Growths.