Wine ChroniclesWhen is the right time for a wine?
By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 28 January 2018 I suppose the short answer is “anytime” but that would be too facile. January has been always a great month for me to hook up with wine loving friends, old and new, in Washington D.C. during the holiday season, when I take an extended holiday break from […]
Madeira Magic
Nearly 175-year-old wine and more By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 24 January 2018 Get set for a story about a special tasting experience of old and rare Madeira wines. While we won’t be boarding a 17th century sailing ship, the journey enters a wine time machine. Historical wine expert Aaron Nix-Gomez proposed a master class tasting of […]
Fronsac Focus
Tasting Bordeaux 2015 from bottle at The Grand Cercle By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 18 January 2018 It was great to catch up late last year with Alain Raynaud, founder of the Grand Cercle des Vins de Bordeaux. He associated this large group of over 160 Bordeaux producers back in 2013, uniting wines of the Right […]
Crus Bourgeois return to classification
And (many) tasting notes from 2015 in bottle By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 14 January 2018 One of the great, if short-lived, periods in the modern era for the Cru Bourgeois wines of Bordeaux was a 2003 ministerial order that approved the first official classification of the Crus Bourgeois du Médoc, which recognized 247 châteaus […]
20 years of Château La Conseillante
A great vertical, a great Pomerol 10 January 2018 By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com Driving west past Château Cheval Blanc at the edge of Saint Emilion, you come across a series of superb Pomerol estates with prime vineyard real estate: Vieux Château Certan, Evangile, Petrus and La Conseillante, among others. They count among the very […]
Champagne in the sky
Two value airlines for transatlantic business class By Panos Kakaviatos for Wine-Chronicles.Com 27 December 2017 Writing articles about wines means traveling to vineyards. And my work in media relations for the Council of Europe also includes several flights a year. Each holiday season, I return to my home in Virginia to see friends and family. […]
Krug 96 from magnum
By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 24 December 2017 Did I get your attention? Good, because that was not the only bottle that we enjoyed. Tis the season to drink well. And, well, I enjoyed myself too much, as I had left my written notes behind from a fabulous, over four hour lunch on 22 December at […]
Venice: not so hidden secret
Restaurant review By Panos Kakaviatos in Venice 11 December 2017 Browsing through wine oriented Facebook posts you are bound to see boastful images of ultra expensive wines. “Just check out the great, very expensive wines I have been drinking,” etc… Well, it is great to drink loads of great, expensive wine. But while in Venice […]
Talkin bout a (wine) revolution
Book Review by Panos Kakaviatos 9 December 2017 What’s in a wine glass? These days: more than just white, red, rosé, sparkling or still. There’s also organic, biodynamic, natural, orange – and more. Not too long ago, such terms were not part of wine parlance, but some people today, even in the wine trade, grapple […]
Gevrey-Chambertin 2016
Looks to be quite good. Savvy buyers should seek village level wines. By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 27 November 2017 Based on a 16 November tasting of village, premiers and grands crus, 2016 appears to be darn good for Gevrey-Chambertin. Many thanks to Fabienne Nicot for the kind invitation to taste so many wines from […]
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