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Klaus-Peter Keller in the Rheinhessen When Klaus-Peter and his wife Julia took over at Weingut Keller in 2001, they had an enviable advantage: his parents had laid a solid foundation for the future of the estate with their work in soil analysis and clonal selection, and were already producing the best wines in Rheinhessen. But Klaus-Peter has taken Weingut Keller to even higher heights, inspiring a renaissance of viniculture in the…
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In 1880, Camille Mathellot, cofounder of the School of Vine Growing of Cadillac, bought the ancient Château du Juge. This was just after the plague of Phylloxera destroyed so many of the vineyards of Bordeaux. By 1898 his wines were taking gold medals in Paris, while others were still struggling. His great-grand nephew Pierre Dupleich and his wife Chantal are the current proprietors. Pierre Dupleich studied Agriculture at…
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Richard, Anthony, and Pascal Jaume in Vinsobres The modern history of this eighty-hectare estate in Vinsobres began with Henri Chauvet and Baron Le Roy, who together introduced the idea of “appellation contrôlée” in France in the 1920s. Henri Chauvet’s son-in-law Pierre Jaume was the driving force in the development of the estate, but it was his son Claude who was the first to estate-bottle the wines. Grandsons Pascal and Richard…
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Paolo De Marche in the cellars of Isole e Olena <em>"Tuscany's strength, like that of any wine producing region, lies in the typicity of the wines, the unique characteristics that make the wines undeniably Tuscan,"</em> says Paolo De Marchi. Since the 1970s when he took the reigns of his family's estate in Tuscany, Paolo has become a leader in evolution of modern Chianti. When asked about all of the changes that have taken place in…
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Serge Martin-Pierrat currently heads up Chateau des Hospitaliers, his family’s farm in the commune of Saint-Christol in the Languedoc – northeast of Montpellier – west of Nîmes. Like his father before him, who purchased the farm in 1978, Serge farms apples, peaches, and of course, grapes for the production of delicious white and red wine. The traditional encépagement of Grenache, Syrah, Carignan, and Mourvèdre (red wines),…
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