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Wine Spectator.- Documents uncovered by Ruinart show it shipped rosé in 1764—a decade before Veuve Clicquot While rosé Champagne has enjoyed strong sales in recent years, recently uncovered documents prove that pink bubbly is no temporary fad. Historians at Champagne Ruinart found papers recording that on March 14, 1764—250 years ago—Ruinart sold bottles of rosé Champagne. It was previously thought that Veuve Clicquot was the first to produce and sell rosé Champagne, in 1775. “It was really a big surprise,” said…

Wine Spectator.-  When it comes to wines that are labeled as “organic,” there are two tiers. If a bottle carries the USDA seal, its grapes must be farmed organically, its other agricultural ingredients (such as yeast) must also be organic, and no sulfites may be added to it. On the other hand, wines labeled as “made with organic grapes” are just that: These wines are vinified from organically farmed fruit, but sulfites may be added, and there are looser requirements for…

Decanter.com.- Auction house Sotheby’s is keen to hold more ex-cellar sales of Burgundy after the sum raised from a 2,000-bottle cache of Maison Joseph Drouhin wines significantly beat estimates in New York. The Drouhin auction, dubbed a once-in-a-generation event by the maison itself, fetched $930,694 against a pre-sale high estimate of $645,500, Sotheby’s said. Around 79% lots topped their high estimate, while all lots were sold. Sotheby’s’ head of New York auctions, Duncan Sterling, told decanter.com that the result reflects…

La viña ocupa la primera posición del ranking de las marcas vinícolas más admiradas del mundo (“World’s Most Admired Wine Brand”) que elabora la revista británica ‘Drinks International’. Tras ostentar la segunda posición en el ranking mundial (y la primera en el ranking europeo) durante los últimos tres años, Torres ha conseguido obtener este año la máxima distinción a nivel mundial, convirtiéndose en la primera bodega española y europea que recibe esta distinción. Este ranking es el resultado de una…