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CAUDALIE, THE 11-YEAR-OLD French skin-care line known for its grape-seed-extract antiaging formula, is expanding its offerings. The company celebrated the opening of its fourth Vinotherapie Spa in grand fashion last month in Rioja, Spain. King Juan Carlos I toured the spa alongside über-architect Frank Gehry, who designed the accompanying Marqués de Riscal Hotel as a sweeping homage to the local culture. The enormous titanium roof is sculpted in the shape of a flamenco skirt and tinged to match the pink and gold shades of vintage wine bottles...
...fastest-growing premium category, the company will launch Tèzon (named for the stone that pounds the agave plant in production) at $60 a bottle in January. Its wine portfolio, including Jacob's Creek, surges with more than 150 of Allied's Spanish wineries, particularly in the Rioja region. "Those are going to be one of the hottest segments for wine in the next decade because of value and the depth of variety," says industry expert Paul Pacult...
Carmenere is just one of the reborn grapes that South Americans are using to make their breakthrough wines--the ones to finally set them apart from French Bordeaux and Spanish Rioja. Malbec, another recently revived red-wine varietal, already represents a quarter of Argentina's wine exports and is hailed as the nation's new vinicultural emblem. "Now we intend to place Argentine wines among the best in the world," says Ernesto Catena, 37, leaping over Malbec casks at his family's Catena Zapata winery in the Mendoza region. Even Uruguay, whose coups until now were usually only military...
Nicholas F. B. Smyth ’05, a Crimson editor, is a government concentrator in Dunster House. He holds dual Irish and American citizenship; this summer he has been working in Madrid and taking weekend trips to Segovia, La Rioja, Pamplona and Paris...
Eisewhere Marques de Riscal, an elegant Bordeaux-like red from Spain's Rioja region, costs $4.99, and there is a $2 mail-in rebate. Rurfino, the largest Chianti producer, offers a $3 rebate on $4.49 bottles of wine. Some stores are offering Italian Dolce Vita white at $3.98 a magnum, plus a second magnum for one penny. The highly regarded Plozner Chardonnay '82 has been reduced from...