Issue 84 2024 CONTENTS
Features
32 DE GUSTIBUS ABOVE AND BEYOND POSTMODERNIST WINE Hugh Johnson seeks out the authentic.
92 FACE TO FACE: THE HEFNERS: EVERYTHING COMING TOGETHER Margaret Rand meets the remarkable couple behind Virginia estate, Ramiiisol.
98 BURGUNDY PORTRAIT FRÉDÉRIC AND CLOTHILDE LAFARGE Jon Wyand photographs a successful duo.
100 WINE AND WORDS AFTER HOURS Judy O’Kane’s latest poem.
102 WINE AND ART DIONYSIAN PORTALS: SENSING WINE IN ROTHKO Chris Howard on the parallels between Rothko’s art and the aesthetics of wine.
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112 THEN AND NOW THE AUSTRALIAN ARK: THE STORIED HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA’S PRE-PHYLLOXERA GRAPEVINES Andrew Caillard MW tells the tale(s) of how the first vines came to Australia.
120 20 YEARS OF WINE GROWING: THE VIGNERONS’ STORIES David Williams hears from some of the world’s most influential wine growers about two decades of making fine wine.
142 AI, WINE EXPERTS, AND WINE APPS: WHATEVER NEXT? Barry Smith on the philosophical implications of the increasing use of AI in the wine world.
148 BORDEAUX PORTRAIT CHÂTEAU TOUR DES TERMES: A NEW CHAPTER Raymond Blake profiles the rising St-Estèphe estate now owned by the O’Connor family.
152 ON THE VINE 1 PIERRE AND HÉLÈNE SEILLAN: TWO GENERATIONS OF VÉRITÉ, SONOMA Anthony Rose meets the French father-anddaughter team at the Petrus-inspired project owned by the Jackson family.
158 ON THE VINE 2 POGGIO DI SOTTO: THE QUEST FOR PERFECTION Robin Lee visits Montalcino and finds the cult estate behind one of Italy’s finest, most elegant wines in an important moment of transition
164 ALBION AWAKES DANBURY RIDGE: CROUCH VALLEY RISES Margaret Rand meets the owning Bunker family and the team behind the fast-rising project in a very special part of Essex.
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