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Château Lascombes
Château Lascombes, a second growth in the 1855 Classification, amassed one of the largest and most diverse vineyard holdings in Margaux during the 20th century. For most of the modern era, it’s been a shadow of its former 1855 self. That sentence is finally being rewritten. When I visited the estate in April for the en primeur tastings, the man holding the pen was Axel Heinz. Axel arrived in 2023 as CEO and winemaker after eighteen years building the reputation of Ornellaia and the Merlot icon Masseto in Bolgheri. His approach is best described as a terroir-first reset: a return to the vineyards that earned the estate its rank, and the confidence — born partly of being an outsider — to add something genuinely new.
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Georgia’s PDO Revolution
The country that invented wine is reinventing its place in the global market — one protected appellation at a time. There is confidence in the way Georgian winemakers talk about their country’s place in the world of wine. They will tell you they have been making wine for 8,000 years — longer than the Egyptians built pyramids, longer than the Greeks wrote philosophy, longer than almost any civilization has done almost anything. They are not wrong. Archaeological evidence from the South Caucasus places the earliest……...