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...HAMILTON RUSSELL: One of the first estates to put Walker Bay on the map, Hamilton Russell, tel: (27-28) 312 3595, produces Pinot Noir and Chardonnay wines that beautifully express the area's stony, clay-rich and shale-derived terroir. Citrus notes enhance the Chardonnay's mineralized dryness, while the Pinot Noir is robust and fruity, with hints of coffee...
...Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Riesling. Try these cool-climate bottlings: HAMILTON RUSSELL One of the first estates to put Walker Bay on the map, Hamilton Russell, tel: (27-28) 312 3595, produces Pinot Noir and Chardonnay wines that beautifully express the area's stony, clay-rich and shale-derived terroir. Citrus notes enhance the Chardonnay's mineralized dryness, while the Pinot Noir is robust and fruity, with hints of coffee. BOUCHARD FINLAYSON Tucked away in the coastal Hemel-en-Aarde valley, this winery, tel: (27-28) 312 3515, is known for remarkable blends like its Hannibal label - a marriage...
...Gallo's success with the French Red Bicyclette has terrified some wine aficionados, who are worried that the globalizing wine market will become defined by dumbed-down wines, homogenized for simple American taste buds. To purists, a wine's flavors should be determined by terroir--the taste of the land where the grapes grow, the minerals in the soil, the amount of sun, wind and rain to which the grapes are exposed. "Authenticity is important," says Italian enologist Stefano Chioccioli. "We already have China invading us with products with no history. Wine is the fruit...
...After Red Bicyclette's success, the company released a new French wine in April: Pont d'Avignon, a Côtes du Rhône from the Rhône Valley. It's about twice the price of Red Bicyclette but boasts flavors that are more complex and reflect the Rhône terroir. Da Vinci, a new Chianti that Gallo produced with Cantine de Leonardo Da Vinci's Alberto Antinoni, hit stores last year and is similarly higher priced. Like Pont d'Avignon, Da Vinci has the slick packaging of Gallo's other imports. Here too the taste is fruity, but with...
...Tuber indicum is very dominant, competitive and aggressive," frets Gerard Chevalier, a researcher at INRA. He paints a scenario in which errant spores from imported Chinese truffles disperse into the air, contaminate the European countryside and beat the fungi out of their more fragile cousins. Already the ancient truffle terroir is being hammered by pesticides and urbanization. Two centuries ago, French black truffles were so abundant that they were cheaper than tomatoes; since then, the average annual truffle harvest in the Périgord region and beyond has declined, from some 1,800 tons to a mere 50 tons. An influx...